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One Man's Music: A Monologue with Song by Vince Bell (plus a Song Swap)

Presented by Anderson Fair at Anderson Fair

September 25, 2010

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Anderson Fair presents One Man's Music: A Monologue with Song by Vince Bell. Followed by a Song Swap with Doug Hudson, Denice Franke. and Eric Hanke.

Vince Bell returns home with his new book, new CD, and a one-man play, Bell's new autobiography, One Man's Music: The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter. Vince Bell has just been published by the University of North Texas Press as the third in their North Texas Lives of Musicians Series, following biographies of Townes Van Zandt and Blaze Foley. Based on his book,Bell has written a 50-minute one-man play, with six songs, which he will premiere at Anderson Fair April 24th and 25th.

As a companion to both the above pieces he is simultaneously releasing his 5th CD, One Man's Music: The Songs. The one-man show will be followed by a full set of music from the new CD.

"This is a triumphant tale of distance and reunion, of shrapnel and balm, and of a man and his guitar who manage to find poetry in tenacity. Herodotus said, 'The tallest trees are always struck by lightning.' Vince Bell said, 'I stared into the face of God... and he blinked.' Vince is singular. This work is communal." — Peter Cooper, contributor to The Tennessean, CNN, CMT, MSNBC, and the BBC

In 1982, the promising singer/songwriter was broadsided by a drunk driver after leaving the studio where he and Stevie Ray Vaughan had just recorded three of Bell’s songs. Bell spent a month in a coma and the next decade relearning how to walk, talk, and play the guitar. His monologue not only details his recovery from the accident but also his roundabout climb back onstage. Beginning with the early 70s Houston music scene and his first guitar, and continuing through 35 years of recordings and tours, Bell shines a light in those dark corners of the music business that, for the lone musician whose success is measured not by the Top 40 but by nightly victories, usually fall outside of the spotlight.

Bell’s prose is not unlike his lyrics: spare, beautiful, evocative, and often sneak-up-onyou funny. His chronicle of his own life and near death on the road reveals what it means to live for one’s art.

Vince Bell's songs have been performed and recorded by such diverse talents as Little Feat, Lyle Lovett, and Nanci Griffith. In addition to releasing four critically acclaimed albums of his own, a ballet has been set to his work and his story turned into a musical. He performs extensively in the United States and Europe and is regularly featured on national and international radio, television and internet programs.