A guitar-playing hockey player taught him his first chords on his new Fender guitar. High school saw a series of bands; after that, he decided it was time to grow up and put the guitar down. The cycle of on-again, off-again with his music began. The new millennium came, and Tremblay started writing songs. At age sixty, faced with his mortality and becoming a grandfather, the guitar came back to him. Brian resurrected withered old songs, and then he dug even deeper. Brian’s songs are heavily influenced by the songwriters who lived on the outside of the Nashville scene. He incorporated their unpolished styles into his lyrics and simple melodies. Many artists want their recordings to sound pure and pristine. Brian wants his to sound like they were recorded by Ralph Peer. Tremblay is currently touring two shows with projected visuals and albums. The Neighbourhood: Songs & Stories of a Blue Collar Raising has visuals of photographs that Brian captured on a vintage camera and film, which he processed and printed himself. The other is In the Tracks of the Black Bear, a love letter to the Algoma Central Railway that his father and many families worked for.
