| Songs From Lonely Avenue | ||||
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| Released | 2009 | |||
| Length | 52:00 | |||
| Label | Surfdog | |||
| Producer | Brian Setzer, Dave Darling, Mark Stockert | |||
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Songs From Lonely Avenue is the eighth studio album from the American swing revival band The Brian Setzer Orchestra, released in 2009. [1] This is the first album to feature all original songs written by Brian Setzer.
Brian Robert Setzer is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra. In 1987, he made a cameo appearance as Eddie Cochran in the film La Bamba.
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13 is the thirteenth solo album from American musician Brian Setzer. It was released in 2006 on Surfdog Records, and contained the Japanese hit single "Back Streets Of Tokyo". Setzer had originally intended for the album to have one direction, or sound, but after thinking about how The Beatles' albums were so diverse, he decided to include many different styles on the album.
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