Few people knew that actor Jeff Bridges (son of Lloyd Bridges) was a songwriter, that is, until his award-winning turn as fading country music star Bad Blake in the film Crazy Heart. The truth, however, is that Bridges had cut and released his first album, Be Here Soon, back in 2000. That album featured an amalgam of pop, rock, country, and even blue-eyed soul songs written or co-written by the artist. Bridges signed to Blue Note Records in the late 2000s, and re-teamed with his Crazy Heart music producer T-Bone Burnett. The album resulting from those sessions, simply entitled Jeff Bridges, was released in the summer of 2011. ~ Thom Jurek Wikipedia
Few people knew that actor Jeff Bridges (son of Lloyd Bridges) was a songwriter, that is, until his award-winning turn as fading country music star Bad Blake in the film Crazy Heart. The truth, however, is that Bridges had cut and released his first album, Be Here Soon, back in 2000. That album featured an amalgam of pop, rock, country, and even...