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Tom Brier Albums & Discography
From Rising Star (1994) to Vintage Ragtime (2016): solo albums, duets with Nan Bostick and recordings with the Raspberry Jam Band.
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Solo albums
1994
Rising Star
Stomp Off Records (CD-1274)
Tom’s debut: 21 tracks that include “Texas Tommy Swing,” the title rag and his own “Brier Patch Rag.”
Track list
- Texas Tommy Swing
- Rising Star
- Corn Shucks
- An Autumn Memory
- The Cake Walk at Boomblestein’s Ball
- Olympia Rag
- Gold Dust Twins Rag
- Rose Blossoms
- Wizzle Dozzle
- Brier Patch Rag
- Little Bit of Rag
- Rainy Day Blues
- Piccalilli Rag
- Spanish Moss
- Shiftless Sam
- Three Sisters
- A Certain Party
- La Paleta
- Mississippi Smilax
- The Wish-Bone Rag
- Just Peachy
1997
Generic
Self-released (CD-101)
Sixteen tracks including “Sweet Potatoes,” “That Futuristic Rag” and “Wellington Rag.”
Track list
- Overture
- Sweet Potatoes
- Hot Sauce One Step
- Tattered Melody
- Prim and Proper
- The Tickler
- The Garden Walk
- That Futuristic Rag
- D-Lite
- One of the Boys
- Sonora Rag
- Snowball Rag
- That Temperamental Rag
- Rubber Neck Jim
- Wellington Rag
- Liz’s Rag
2000
Pianola
Includes “Diego’s Rag.”
2003
Skeletons
2006
Rewind
2009
Blue Sahara
Title piece is an “oriental fox trot,” also recorded by pianist Adam Swanson.
2012
Constellations
Shares its name with Tom’s Constellations suite, whose pieces include “Cepheus,” “Cassiopeia” and “Cetus.” Reported to be on Spotify and Amazon Music.
2015
Tom Brier: Live in Concert
A live recording from Tom’s concert career.
2016
Vintage Ragtime
Listed as Tom’s most recent solo CD.
Duets & band recordings
2002
Dualing at the McCoys (with Nan Bostick)
Baby Sound Records (BSR6943)
Piano duets with Nan Bostick, 20 tracks. Their “Borneo Rag” and “Indian Summer” recordings were used in Ken Burns’s documentary Unforgivable Blackness.
Track list
- Margery
- Hiawatha: A Summer Idyl
- Dolores (Cubanola)
- ’Neath Southern Skies
- The Smoky Topaz
- Ma Ragtime Baby
- Echoes from the Snowball Club
- Pearl of the Harem
- Silver Heels
- Sue
- Cherry Intermezzo
- Sugar Plum
- Louisiana
- Sanitol March
- The Lady-Bugs Review
- Dark Eyes
- That Poker Rag
- Indian Summer
- Cotton Time
- Borneo Rag
2006
Missing You at the McCoys (with Nan Bostick)
A second duet album with Nan Bostick.
2009
Raspberries to Crow About (Raspberry Jam Band)
Recorded with the Raspberry Jam Band.
2015
Raspberries in the Briar Patch (Raspberry Jam Band)
Recorded with the Raspberry Jam Band.
Tom’s music played by others
- Adam Swanson plays four Brier pieces (“Balderdash,” “Blue Sahara,” “Over the Top” and “Elephant Tracks”) on Revival Ragtime (Rivermont, BSW-2245).
- Will Perkins performs “Coriander Rag” on Snowy Morning Blues (Rivermont, BSW-2239).
- Ragtime Wizardry (Vol. 1, 2014; Vol. 2, 2019) is a multi-composer project; Tom’s “Delphinium Rag” was written on commission for it by Danny Matson.
Album details are compiled from tombriermusic.com, Ragtime.nu, Wikipedia and The Syncopated Times. Sources differ slightly on a few years and titles.