BRIAN BERLIN (b. 1972) is an American folk-rock country-blues singer-songwriter and poet from Kemah, Texas.

Berlin has been an active musician in the Houston-Galveston area for over three decades performing solo and with rock, country, jazz, and symphonic ensembles on just about every instrument imaginable. Nowadays, he sings original songs and plays harmonica while accompanying himself on guitar. His catalog of songs is beautifully imperfect, eclectic, and rich with irony and humor.

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New Book!

First Thunder in Months now available at Amazon.com

In his literary debut, Texas singer-songwriter and teacher Brian Berlin turns his ear for language toward the small moments of everyday life. First Thunder in Months is a collection of over a hundred approachable poems that explore ordinary things from unexpected, sometimes hilarious angles.

With unpretentious wit, Berlin captures familiar scenes where overlooked details take on surprising significance. His poems invite readers to look again at the everyday world—and perhaps see something they hadn’t before. What’s noticed in one poem may turn up again, differently, in another—each discovery making the book something more than the sum of its poems.