Brian Frederick is a multi-instrumental musician, composer, arranger and song producer.  He is a self-taught musician with little formal music education. As a result, he does not use musical notation. He has produced in multiple genres of music, such as pop, rock, blues, world, jazz, and classical. His songs display qualities found in the best of instrumental popular music: the ability to create atmosphere and poetry without lyrics. His use of instrumental color, creative combination of sounds, conversational guitar style (which can be so close to the human voice it almost wails at times), picturesque melodies, and subtle nuance effectively tell stories without words. Frederick has learned to play guitars, bass guitar, piano and keyboards, percussion and drums, harmonica and concertina, going back to childhood in the 1950s. 

Frederick also produces a music education podcast titled”Vinyl Vibrations with Brian Frederick Podcast”.  As of late 2024, he has published 30 episodes on the Vinyl Vibrations podcast, and has produced 99 instrumental songs on 10 albums.

GUITAR INFLUENCES

Django Reinhardt

John McLaughlin

Larry Coryell

Carlos Santana

Pat Metheny

Pat Martino

Mark Knopfler

Jimi Hendrix

Jeff Beck

BRIAN FREDERICK MUSIC LINKS

Links to Albums and Songs published today:

Apple Music

Spotify

YouTube

BRIAN FREDERICK ALBUMS

1-Cruising Lane II  (2001)

2-Short Stories (2002)

3-Lakeshore Nights (2003)

4-Hill Climb (2005)

5-Best of Brian Frederick (2006)

6-Trail Run (2008)

7-Old Roads New Ways(2008)

8-Empathy In G (2011)

9-Lift Bridge (2014)

10-Slow Men Working (2024)

11-Hill Climb (remaster) 2024

BRIAN FREDERICK SONGS

Reviews

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