Tom Brosseau (Loveless Records/FatCat Records) has been trekking the nation playing intimate settings, and gathering some notable fans. In a recent Performing Songwriter interview, Bonnie Raitt gave Brosseau a shout out: wait until you hear him. Brosseau's 2005 debut, What I Mean To Say Is Goodbye, made the same list of Best Recordings of 2005 in the Chicago Tribune as LCD Soundsystem, Sleater Kinney and New Pornographers.

The LA-based artist, a Grand Forks, North Dakota native, writes songs that touch on, in Brosseau's words, abandoned buildings, new love, the praireland, being haunted, roaming around, and being thrilled and killed.
A master storyteller, who draws from such diverse influences as Marty Robbins, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake, and Billie Holiday, Brosseau puts his haunting voice center stage. His 2005 record, What I Mean to Say is Goodbye is produced by Sam Jones (Wilco documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart), with a dollop of exquisitely empathetic piano from Benmont Tench, a snatch of guitar from Jon Brion, a sweet violin riff from Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins.
Brosseau has 2 releases in April 2006, a S/T album on Loveless and Empty Houses Are Lonely on FatCat Records (Sigur Ros, Animal Collective and Vashti Bunyan).