Bryan Austin

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Bryan Austin
Birth nameBryan Cuevas
Born (1967-09-12) September 12, 1967 (age 55)
Origin Pass Christian, Mississippi, U.S.
Genres Country
Occupation(s) Singer
Instrument(s)
Years active1994, 2012
LabelsPatriot/Liberty

Bryan Cuevas (born September 12, 1967 in Pass Christian, Mississippi) is an American country music artist, known professionally as Bryan Austin. Signed to Liberty Records' sister label Patriot Records in 1994, he released an album and two singles for the label. The first of these singles, "Radio Active", charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart.

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Biography

Bryan Cuevas was born September 12, 1967 [1] in Pass Christian, Mississippi. [2] Cuevas was raised near Biloxi, Mississippi. In the late 1980s, he founded a band called Texas Flat, whose membership occasionally included Brett Favre, who would later become a quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. [3]

Cuevas later changed his surname to Austin. In 1994, he was the first artist signed to Patriot Records, a sister label of Liberty Records founded by its then-president, Jimmy Bowen. [2] He released his debut single, "Radio Active", that year. This song peaked at No. 62 on the U.S. Billboard country singles charts, [1] and was included on his self-titled debut album, which was produced by Keith Stegall. Another single, "Is It Just Me", was also released and made into a music video, [4]

Austin left Patriot in 1995 after the label was merged into Capitol Records. He performed on Steve Wariner's 1997 instrumental album No More Mr. Nice Guy on the track "The Brickyard Boogie." This track, which featured Bryan White, Jeffrey Steele and former Pearl River member Derek George, was nominated for Best Country Instrumental at the Grammy Awards of 1997. [5] In 1999, Austin founded another band called Phoenix, whose members included Darin Anthony and Noah Gordon, the latter of whom was also signed as solo artist on Patriot in the 1990s. [3]

On November 15, 2012, he released a new EP titled "Drunk on Love". [6]

Bryan Austin (1994)

Bryan Austin
Studio album by
Bryan Austin
ReleasedJuly 12, 1994
Genre Country
Label Patriot/Liberty
Producer Keith Stegall

Track listing

  1. "Radio Active" (Bucky Jones, L. David Lewis, Kim Williams) – 3:20
  2. "You're Right, I'm Wrong" (Wayne Perry, Marty Stuart) – 2:44
  3. "That's What She Said" (Russ Roberts, Neil Thrasher, Williams) – 3:45
  4. "Is It Just Me" (Kent Blazy, Thrasher) – 3:55
  5. "Open Your Eyes" (Billy Kirsch, Fred Koller) – 3:03
  6. "Long Walk Back" (Bryan Austin) – 3:04
  7. "Susannah" (Gretchen Peters) – 3:31
  8. "Limo Driver" (Austin, Roger Murrah, Keith Stegall) – 3:18
  9. "That Makes One of Us" (Austin, Stegall, Gary Harrison) – 3:40
  10. "All Dressed Up with No Place to Go" (Austin, James Dean Hicks) – 2:41

Personnel

Singles

YearSinglePeak positions
US Country
[1]
1994"Radio Active"62
"Is It Just Me"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

YearVideoDirector
1994"Radio Active" Steven Goldmann
"Is It Just Me"

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