Martin McNulty Crane V comes from a long line of exceptional Martins. There's an orphan who became attorney general of Texas and fought the KKK, a lieutenant who fought in WWI, an airline pilot who raised his family in Iran, and a scientist. Our Martin Crane, who now records as BRAZOS, is on track to become a leading musical light, with a burning creative mind and a searching soul. Brooklyn-based BRAZOS gained recognition in 2009 with Crane's self-released debut album, "Phosphorescent Blues". The album was hewn around "The Observer", the 1969 Adrienne Rich poem Crane put to music. From the bouncy, free-formed vocal phrasing of that adaptation grew a style that combined raw energy and dance rhythms with the subtle intricacies of jazz and folk. On ... read more