Full name – Garrett Bradford
Birthdate – August 24th
Hometown – Weatherford, Texas
Current city – Weatherford, Texas + Nashville, Tennessee
Musical influences – George Strait, Red Steagall, Bob Wills, Nat Stuckey, Merle Haggard
Label – H.O.T. Records
Current Song – “Do You? (I Do)” (as of date of article: 4/21/2025)

Today’s spotlight artist is a pure soul, what truly loves what he does. Garrett Bradford is a true-blue Texas man with a talent that rivals anyone in the industry and a heart is invested in country music. Keep reading to learn more about his incredible story.

“I grew up in Weatherford, Texas on a ranch there. My family are ranchers. My dad owned a horse sale company […] That was kind of my whole life. Nobody in my family really played music,” began the singer-songwriter “When I was really young, I wasn’t really exposed to all of this singing and being an artist, but I sang in a children’s choir at church. My mom had me do that even though I didn’t want to as a little boy. I ended up kind of enjoying it, and eventually as a young teenager, at twelve or thirteen, I started playing guitar and writing songs came as soon as I learned to play a few chords. It just kind of seemed like the thing to do for me.”

Music found its way into his heart at an early age. The desire to play music never left him. “My dad and my mom were super supportive of it, and looking back at it, I think that’s super cool,” he shared, while reminiscing about being introduced to country legends, while driving in the car with his parents. “I had a lot of classic country in my ears, especially when I was first starting to play. With my dad it was classic country and with my mom it was country and a lot of bit of gospel, when I was riding in the car.”

Eventually, when Bradford got a driver’s license, he found his own musical taste too. “When I had a vehicle and my own CD player and my own radio, I started realizing that there was this Texas music scene. It was firing on all cylinders at that time in 2009, 2010. It was really a heyday of Texas country music,” he shared. “I feel like my life started when I got a guitar honestly.”

The Turning Point:

After graduating high-school, Bradford continued to cut his teeth on the Texas country circuit. “I kept on doing that, and we have so many great places to play in Texas, even as a youngster like that. We had open mics and flea markets I would set up and play at, and I would busk at a lot of horse shows,” he shared, adding, “I started playing in bars and things when I graduated from high-school, and it just slowly evolved over my life, but it’s been a huge part ever since I got a guitar.”

Around this same time the singer was playing shows and writing music, he started a tree business with his best friend, Colt Ford. Unfortunately, in 2014, the singer and his best friend got into a life-altering car accident, which took the life of Ford. This devastating event catapulted Bradford into letting go of playing music professionally, due the tragedy. “It was a derailing experience for me. […] It kind of took away all my confidence after that. For a few years after that, three or four years, I quit playing shows. I would still play a few shows, but only if it was someone I knew, but I wasn’t trying to get out or release music or anything,” he shared.”

Eventually as fate would have it, Bradford ended up getting hired to do some work for Taylor Sheridan, the creator of the hit show, Yellowstone. “We hit it off, and we became friends, and he would invite me over for dinner but I didn’t event think about telling him I was a musician.”

Despite taking a break from playing shows, the singer never stopped writing. “I had kept writing songs the whole time. As a matter of fact, I wrote more songs than ever between when I was in the car wreck and when I met Taylor, four, five years later,” he shared, adding, “He encouraged me a lot, and really rekindled my passion for [music] and my confidence to get out there, so I started playing again, publicly a lot more, and I started recordings one music. Then eventually, two, three years into knowing him, he asked me to write a song for the show, and I did, and I sent him an acoustic demo of it just to see if he liked it, and apparently he liked it a lot because I sent it to him on a Tuesday and it ended up on Yellowstone on a Sunday, the demo did.”

Today:

Flash forward to today, not only did Bradford’s song, “The Way of Life,” land on Yellowstone, but the singer-songwriter is finally releasing a two-part album of his own. Act 1 of the singer’s record, Honkiest Of Tonkers came out in February, featuring nine songs, including, “Do You (I Do)” and “Bad Girl Good.” Act 2 of the project will be released soon.

“I think an album allows fans to take a deeper dive, and really the thought process for the record, it’s a combination of songs that I recorded in Texas and Nashville. Both albums have a mixture of both of those places, and I was originally going to put out nineteen songs on one album, but then I thought that it was a lot of songs to ask people to listen to,” shared Bradford.

For the singer, this record reflects who he is an artist, pays tribute to his heroes, and showcases his songwriting prowess. “I wanted the first part to be a little bit of everything I do, as far as my songwriting, and the second part, is similar, but there’s a few more deeply personal songs and a song about my dad who passed away a few years ago, and a song about a conversation I had with my grandfather called, “Fireflies” whose still alive thank god. I think I just wanted to split those up to make it a little more digestible.”

As fans await part 2 of the project, Bradford promises that he is already working on more new music. “I’m just really excited to be putting this music music out, and I’m already working on another album. I just want to release a lot of music.” Stay tuned!

Connect:

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