Ryan T Briggs has been charming audiences across Texas since his inception to the music scene in 1999. His clean acoustic pickin' style, "howling" vocals, and fun and masterful lyrical design have kept his loyal fan base locked in, even during a 4 y [+]Ryan T Briggs has been charming audiences across Texas since his inception to the music scene in 1999. His clean acoustic pickin' style, "howling" vocals, and fun and masterful lyrical design have kept his loyal fan base locked in, even during a 4 year absence in which he finished school and worked for The Man in Houston. After quitting the corporate gig, spending 2 years on a music degree (South Plains College, Levelland), and building an established band in Lubbock, Briggs will release his debut record, LeT iT RoLL (Sunset Records), out of Austin in April 2006.
Ryan first got turned on to live performance during college in a city notorious for breeding successful musicians: Lubbock, Texas. In the thick of the Texas Country scene there in 1999, he was the front-man for the house band, the Texas Armadillos, at The Blue Light, one of the city’s premier live music venues. The Armadillos would play Wednesdays when Cooder Graw and Cross Canadian Ragweed would often play Thursdays and Fridays. Briggs’ band was filled with music students from nationally renowned South Plains College who went on to play with Texas Country All-stars Mark David Manders and Gary P. Nunn.
Originally from Katy (outside of Houston), where rock-n-roll, fishing boats, bayou parties, and muscle cars are a plenty, Briggs molds his style from early influences of Hank Williams Jr, Kenny Rogers, David Allan Coe, Lynard Skynard and Stevie Ray Vaughn with the revitalized Texas Country genre that includes Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker and Robert Earl Keen. His father, also an avid musician, brought his boy every year to the Kerrville Folk Festival, where he was exposed to the art of songwriting and the value of original, untainted homemade music. In his travel to Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, the southern United States and every dynamic corner of Texas, Briggs’ songwriting reflects his discovery that both people and music are interesting, funny and warm wherever the wind blows.
The temporary halt to Briggs’ growing popularity came upon graduation from Texas Tech University in 2001. He took a job with Arthur Andersen (Houston), where he was greeted by the biggest international accounting scandal in history with the fall of Enron Corporation.
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