“I’ve always known who I was as an artist, it just took me a little while to accept it,” Bradley Banning said in response to his new song, “Don’t Mess With Texas.”
Born just outside Fort Worth, TX, Bradley grew up mowing lawns and writing songs. He says, “My dad owned a landscaping company growing up, but he wrote songs when he got home at night. My dad’s dedication to our family and songwriting taught me you never quit on something you love. Whether it’s your family, friends, music, etc…”
It’s taken a lot of “work and grace” Bradley says, to get to the point that he can release his first single as an artist. For years he held jobs as a creative director, promotion coordinator, server, car salesman, landscaper, any job that paid the bills and allowed him to write songs. “I wrote songs every chance I got, but I was afraid to take the leap, and pursue music full time as an artist. I didn’t want to break my bank,” he laughs.
However, in 2014, after ASCAP named him one of their GPS Top 12 unsigned songwriters, he lost his job as a creative director and the same night got a call from his girlfriend at the time, that they were done. “I thought I was going to marry that girl” he says, “it was bad timing I thought, but God had my attention. That’s when I took all the money I had saved for an engagement ring and bought studio equipment and started recording my own songs.”
Two years later, on February 13, 2017, Bradley released his first single, “Don’t Mess With Texas” that he co-produced with that engagement ring money and studio equipment. “Don’t Mess With Texas” was one of the few debut singles from any artist that broke top 20 on the Texas charts in 2017 and it continues to build quite the story for Bradley.
Bradley’s song “Don’t Mess with Texas” has been added to regular rotation at 99.5 the Wolf in Dallas. This is the largest radio station in the entire nation. Most artist never achieve this even with major label support. This is unheard of by an independent artist. Bradley has been on the road opening up for acts such as: Aaron Watson, Deryl Dodd, Roger Creager, Wade Bowen, Mickey and the Motorcars, Josh Turner and even the San Antonio Rodeo.
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