Editing Steven Brust (section)

== Musical recordings and performances ==
Brust is a singer-songwriter and drummer who has recorded a solo album, and who has played in the Minneapolis-based [[folk rock]] band [[Cats Laughing]], and with the Albany Free Traders,<ref>[http://gerisullivan.livejournal.com/84142.html "A short visual trip down musical memory lane" (Albany Free Traders publicity flyer)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211160153/http://gerisullivan.livejournal.com/84142.html |date=February 11, 2007 }}. Geri Sullivan blog.  February 1, 2007.  Retrieved December 29, 2012.</ref> and Morrigan.

Brust also co-wrote two songs on the 1994 album ''[[Antler Dance]]'' by the band [[Boiled in Lead]] (BiL), as well as many of the songs on BiL's 1995 multimedia CD ''Songs from The Gypsy''.

===Cats Laughing===
{{main|Cats Laughing}} Cats Laughing released two albums with Brust as the drummer, in 1988 and 1990. Brust also contributed as a songwriter and vocalist. The 1990 album ''Another Way to Travel'' features cover art that depicts the band members and a vehicle known as the Catmobile, the band vehicle for Cats Laughing. The car, owned by Brust, was a Cadillac ambulance, painted yellow, light blue, and dark blue, with murals.

On April 3, 2015, Brust performed as part of Cats Laughing in a reunion concert at the [[Minicon]] 50 science fiction convention in Bloomington, Minnesota.<ref name="minicon50">{{Cite web |title=Minicon 50 – The Gold Edition |url=http://mnstf.org/minicon50/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116043417/http://mnstf.org/minicon50/ |archive-date=November 16, 2014}}</ref><ref name="beyondcons">{{Cite web |title=A Long Time Gone |url=http://beyondconventions.com/cats.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141116042213/http://beyondconventions.com/cats.html |archive-date=November 16, 2014 |access-date=November 15, 2014 |website=Beyond Conventions}}</ref> In March 2016, Cats Laughing released a double CD of their 2015 reunion, ''A Long Time Gone'', as well as a DVD by the same title with documentary concert footage.

===Solo===
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''[[A Rose for Iconoclastes]]'', a [[folk music|folk]] (or [[folk pop]]) album released in 1993, is Brust's only solo album.<ref name="rose-cd">{{Cite AV media |url=http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stevenbrust |title=A Rose for Iconoclastes |last=Brust |first=Steven |type=CD |publisher=Beer & Pizza, Inc. (BMI) |year=1993 |asin=B000R9RCQY}}</ref> The title is a reference to "[[A Rose for Ecclesiastes]]", a short story by Brust's literary hero and mentor [[Roger Zelazny]].<ref name="bookslt">{{Cite web |last=Martini |first=Adrienne |date=May 2004 |title=An Interview With Steven Brust |url=http://www.bookslut.com/features/2004_05_002065.php |website=Bookslut |access-date=June 7, 2014 |archive-date=March 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319145845/http://www.bookslut.com/features/2004_05_002065.php |url-status=dead }} (Interview in which Brust notes that a picture of Zelazny is on his desk.)</ref>

Twelve of the fourteen songs were written or co-written by Brust. The album was produced by [[Adam Stemple]], a fellow fantasy writer and member of Cats Laughing.

==={{anchor|Songs from The Gypsy}}''Songs from The Gypsy'' (1995)===
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{{Music ratings
| title= Boiled in Lead: ''Songs from The Gypsy''
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AM2">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000180285| label=''Songs from the Gypsy'' review |first=Roch|last=Parisien|access-date=April 2, 2014}}</ref>
}} The 1995 enhanced CD ''[[Songs from The Gypsy (Boiled in Lead album)|Songs from The Gypsy]]'', by the band [[Boiled in Lead]], featured songs written by Brust and [[Adam Stemple]], as well as the full text of Brust's novel ''[[The Gypsy (novel)|The Gypsy]].''<ref name="SHInterview" />

[[AllMusic]] reviewer Steven McDonald called ''Songs from The Gypsy'' "an example of Brust's serious songwriting working well."<ref name="AM1">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000908823|label=''A Rose for Iconoclastes'' review |first=Steven |last=McDonald|access-date=April 2, 2014}}</ref>

Conversely, a critical review by [[AllMusic]]'s Roch Parisien emphasized that "''Songs from The Gypsy'' represents a failure of multimedia integration. As an audio CD, the disc serves up ten songs, ranging from acoustic trad to bluesy rockers, that ironically form a less cohesive whole than previous Boiled in Lead releases. The better numbers (like the title track) incorporate Celtic rock with Hungarian, Middle Eastern, and other interesting worldbeat influences."<ref name="AM2" /> Parisien found the album's integration with the novel unsuccessful, in that the novel's 17 chapters were presented as "scrollable text only, which also intersperse some 80 song lyric excerpts that you can play from hot buttons. Annoyingly, you must flip back to the main menu index to move from one chapter to the next."<ref name="AM2" /> Parisien concluded, "Despite Brust's engrossingly poetic, impressionist story inspired by Hungarian folk tales and revolving around three Gypsy brothers, the project does not overcome the primary limitation of bringing literature to the computer screen, that being that the computer offers an inhospitable environment for viewing literature-length text."<ref name="AM2" /> The review, written in 1995, predated a wave of popular [[e-book reader]]s that began to emerge about ten years later.

===Other performances===
Brust has performed dramatically in several [[Shockwave Radio Theater]] productions, notably ''Closing Ceremonies (aka The Fall of the House of Usherette)'' and ''PBS Liavek''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Annotation of Shockwave Silver |url=http://www.romm.org/silver.html |access-date=July 12, 2016 |publisher=Dave Romm |archive-date=February 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205014125/http://www.romm.org/silver.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>