Bruce Foster

An "Army Brat" born while his father was stationed in Madison, WI then growing up in Baltimore, Hawaii, DC, San Antonio, Germany, then Illinois where he went to the U of I. A guitar showed up somewhere while in Germany... a Framus 12-string to be exact... and sent the young Bruce Foster down the wandering trail of folk/pop that would evolve into Americana. He found enlightenenment and inspiration from the likes of Eric Anderson, Bob Gibson & Hamilton Camp, Gordon Lightfoot, Simon & Garfunkel, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Harry Nilssen, the Beatles, Motown & Muscle Shoals, jazz, classical, you name it. After a long hiatis from music to live a sort of normal life (if 30 years working in mental health could be called such) the wandering trail beckoned and The Lonesome Rambler emerged with a Guild replacing the Framus and a stack of songs written over the years just waiting to be played before an audience. Eleven of those songs are on this album.