SOUNDSTAGE: Brian Futch

Hearing Brian’s music evokes his youth…spent in a small town on the east coast of Florida where the warm Sunday mornings were spent listening to his mother play the piano for the church congregation. It was this gospel, echoing off the worn, wooden pews that would serve as the bedrock of his future in music….

By age 15, Brian had decided that merely listening to the music of others was not enough, and he answered that call one Christmas morning when he received his first guitar. He taught himself to play by listening to the popular rock music of the time, as well as paying homage to such great blues artists as Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

The second call that Brian answered was that of serving his country, and in 1986 he enlisted in the United State Army. He served 7 years on active duty, rising from the…