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Producer-turned-performer
Billy Brandt debuts his own CD.

FINE CHINESE DINING

Suzanne Chessler
Special to the Jewish News

B

illy Brandt built a music
career putting others in
the spotlight but recently
decided to place himself at the center
of attention.
Brandt, using his skills as a record
producer and band performer, has
made a CD of his own music and will
introduce it during a party Sunday
evening, Nov. 4, at Memphis Smoke in
Royal Oak.
The Mission Band, the title of his lat-
est project with his own Drum Dancer
Records, includes 12 folk-rock rendi-
tions of old and new songs.
"I'm planning on a larger-than-
usual band for the party, and I think
I've reached a point in my life where
I can say I'm the real thing:' says the
singer-songwriter-guitarist, who regu-
larly performs with the Jill Jack Band
and Grievous Angel.
"I will have both bands with me and
augment that with steel guitar and
keyboard players. This time, Jill will be
in the background with vocals."
The title song of the recording
has to do with a searching lifestyle
and sets the lyrical mood of the CD.
"Watertown" explores the world of
someone with a nontraditional direc-
tion, perhaps in music or poetry.
"Hannah" has to do with the mother-
child theme.
"When I feel a song coming on, it's
rarely on a personal level: explains
Brandt, a Ferndale resident who is 53
and single. "It's usually about all of
us as we head for a promised land.
There's a Jewish legacy, but there's also
the human legacy."
Brandt, who grew up in Oak Park
and Farmington Hills, became inter-

ested in music at 12, when he heard
the Mamas and the Papas singing
"California Dreamin'." He gave up
hockey and softball for the guitar.
After graduating from Harrison
High School in Farmington Hills and
taking classes at the University of
Arizona, Brandt dropped out of college
to appear with young bands perform-
ing near the university.
A move to New York City opened a
career in marketing performers, but
after five years that was set aside. In
1985, he returned to Michigan to cope
with substance abuse.
Back to work, Brandt divided his
time between appearing with local
bands and managing a family scrap-
metal business.
"With my salary, I started Drum
Dancer Records:' recalls Brandt, whose
family firm closed in 2000. "I recorded
with the groups Red Sea and Spank
before Jill Jack found me, and I've pro-
moted her group regionally and locally
for 10 years."
Grievous Angel started three years
ago and includes Nolan Mendenhall
on bass and vocals and Roscoe White
on guitar.
Brandt, whose early religious train-
ing came at Temple Beth El and the
Birmingham Temple, practices yoga
and rides a bike to relax.
"My only career goal is to keep on
playing what I like," he says. "I want to
compromise my style as little as pos-
sible." II

Billy Brandt will perform at 8:30
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, at Memphis
Smoke,100 S. Main St., in Royal
Oak. (248) 543-4300. For other
local bookings, go to
www.drumdancerrecords.com .

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