Lindsay Bruce of The Voice caps memorable year with a new EP

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Lindsay Bruce of The Voice caps memorable year with a new EP

November 30, 2014 By Mark Franklin 0

Lindsay Bruce has enjoyed a pretty memorable year.

She made it onto The Voice. She got to sing in concert with Keith Urban. She released her first post-Voice music.

And the San Francisco Giants won the World Series.

The new music came most recently, in the form of a four-track EP called “Drive of My Life” that hit iTunes two days before Thanksgiving.

I’ve embedded the official video for the lead single by the same name below. I’ve also embedded the Soundcloud version of another standout track on the EP called “I Can’t Love You Anymore.”

Lindsay was on The Voice in Season 6, winning a spot on Team Shakira at age 25 after singing the Eli Young Band’s “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” for her blind audition.

Her stay on the show was relatively short-lived. She lost in the battle round to eventual Top 5 finisher Kristen Merlin, but not before getting to work with Miranda Lambert, who served as a mentor for the members of Team Shakira.

On the show, Lindsay explained that, because of her shyness, she’d been writing music longer than she’d been performing it. But she had moved to Nashville three years earlier and started playing “anywhere and everywhere,” gaining confidence along the way.

She earned another brush with fame in September, winning an online competition to perform with Keith Urban at a concert in Sacramento. She sang the Miranda Lambert part of his song “We Were Us.”

Now, as for the Giants, Lindsay says she was born and raised in Giants country. And she’s still a fan, to the point where she says she pretended all the orange and black Halloween decorations on display in Nashville in October where really people rooting for the Giants to do well in the World Series.

Anyway, the time she spent in Los Angeles when she was on The Voice was her first venture into hated Dodgers country. She met a guy who was a Dodger fan, and, of course, it sparked a song — a cute little tune called “The Giants Song” — which I’ve also embedded below.

Among the four songs on the new EP, the title track has the craziest story behind it, Lindsay tells Voice Views. Heck, it even has a connection to The Voice.

Lindsay had performed at a writer’s night event in Nashville when she was approached by a man from the audience inquiring whether she had other material. He was a bass player for a band in L.A. and friends with the music producer on The Voice. And they were looking for originals Danielle Bradbery and other contestants could sing on Season 4.

of My Life’ was originally for her,” Lindsay says of Danielle, “with the lyrics being ‘it’s a long way, long way back to, back to Texas.’ I could only imagine how her life would change — whether she won the show or not — and, even though I’d only had a small taste of life on the road, I wanted to write a song about the ups and downs and how, even when the changes are hard, the journey is the reward.”

Well, it turns out they didn’t use originals on The Voice in Season 4. But the chance encounter landed Lindsay an audition “and I ended up saving the song for myself and my experience on the show.”

Hence, Texas became California for the young woman who strives to deliver California country folks can relate to because of the honesty in her lyrics.

And what rewards did Lindsay reap from her time on The Voice?

“The vocal training, experience on a big stage (without a guitar!) and advice from Miranda Lambert all helped me to broaden my comfort zone and become not just a ‘singer-songwriter,’ but a ‘singer-songwriter-artist,'” she says.

“Pursuing music — or any dream — can be scary because it requires you to put a lot of faith in yourself and what you’re doing. To work with anyone, let alone some of the biggest names in music, and get reassurance and feedback/encouragement about what you’re doing, was probably the biggest gift. That’s something that you take with you for the rest of your career, no matter what happens on the show.”

Like what you hear below? There’s also pre-Voice music from Lindsay that’s available on iTunes, not to mention a three-track EP she released with Steven Nix earlier this year as Brix (Bruce and Nix, get it). And they sound great together.

If you want to keep up with Lindsay, you’ll find her website here. On Twitter, she’s @CowboyBootsB

Now, the music, including that performance with Keith Urban … For links to blogs on other former Voice contestants who have recently released music, go to the bottom of the blog.