Simple Machines sm28 Franklin Bruno A Bedroom Community

Presenting the first solo album from Nothing Painted Blue's Franklin Bruno. Franklin's previous solo releases include two cassette-only releases on the Inland Empire's Shrimper label and out-of-print singles on Baby Huey and Walt, as well as various compilation appearances. A Bedroom Community is not Franklin Bruno's first (mostly) one-man effort, but it is his most fully realized. More than a bunch of tunes that his "rock band" couldn't or wouldn't play, the album is a modestly scaled work of pop auteurship in the not-too-grand tradition of Todd Rundgren and The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.