Saint Rose Records

Daggerzine writes: “BC Fitzpatrick is Brian Fitzpatrick and while he might not be a guy on your radar, he was certainly on mine in the mid 90’s when I was living in Santa Rosa, California. He was a guitarist/singer in alt country faves Cropduster (which also featured Andy Asp who was in Nuisance prior to and The Pattern after Cropduster). Cropduster played some terrific gigs, released one underrated record and then vanished as did Brian. It was the usual stuff: marriage, kids, job, mortgage payment, etc. As it says in the liners, the song were written overt a two year period and record with help from several Sonoma County musicians and the whole thing has a real homespun feel bring to mind, at different times, Tom Waits, Neil Young or the acoustic Springsteen stuff. In addition to being a talented guitarist, Fitzpatrick is also an expressive storyteller, spinning yarns about his own exploits or of a lifetime of meeting other musicians, drifters or characters we run into day to day. Be it in “Rollaway Town” (“My cold nose in place of your kiss, I found comfort in whiskey”) or “China Bird Tree” (“I love the valley where I was born, I rolled off the mountain straight into your arms”). With a heart full of gold and a guitar in hand, Fitzpatrick wants to break your heart. My advice is to simply let him because LOST , STOLEN & STRAYED is a keeper.“