Seattle's Brad Warren is a singer-songwriter with lovely songs and an entrancing command of vocal style and intricate, snappy acoustic guitar picking. His music is positive, romantic, subtle and smart. A prize-winning playwright turned songwriter, Brad Warren grew up steeped in 1960s protest and pop songs, jazz, and classical music. Raised in a musical family, he got an early start in folk and rock groups. At 19, he signed up as a cub reporter for a struggling newspaper in Washington's San Juan Islands, supplementing his income by moonlighting in a local R & B group. By 1982, he was performing in cabaret, theater and music groups in France. Brad financed his theater education by freelancing for fishing magazines and working as a deckhand in Alaska, experiences that led to his first play. "Short Season" won a national literary prize and launched Brad's career as a playwright and director. But an irresistible habit of writing songs and interludes for every production - even writing whole musicals - soon revealed that songwriting was his path. (waterbug.com)