Name: Brian Collins
Start: 2026-07-31T07:00:00+01:00
Location: FortyFive Vinyl Café

As his genuinely southern sound suggests, Brian Collins was born and raised in West Georgia. The soulful quality of his voice gives meaningful expression to songs that bend the lines of genre between Americana, Country, Southern Rock, and Blue-Eyed Soul. However, the depth of his writing and the broadness of his perspective attest to his worldliness, as Brian is just as much a traveller as he is a small-town, southern boy.
Being a talented singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with endorsements from Taylor Guitars and Lee Oskar Harmonicas, he has shared stages with Zac Brown Band, Kip Moore, Billy Dean, Blackberry Smoke, Matt Stillwell, Marshall Tucker, KISS, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, among others.
With music running through his veins and a genuine love for community spirit, he is the driving force behind many projects such as his own music festival ‘SALLFest’ which has just celebrated its fifth year.
In the US, Brian’s music has celebrated national media recognition including 7 weeks at number one on CMT’s Pure Pack and participating in the 49th and 50th annual CMA Awards. His international profile has also grown significantly, with standout performances at C2C Festival at London’s O2 Arena and a UK tour alongside Kezia Gill, winning over audiences across the Atlantic with his soulful southern sound.
Over the years Brian has recorded with many notable musicians including Clay Cook, John Driskell Hopkins and Daniel De Los Reyes from Zac Brown Band, all of whom feature on his new EP Good Things—which, as the name suggests, is packed with feel-good tracks just in time for summer. A truly wonderful feel-good song that will capture hearts, cascade glittery rays of light upon the fractured world in which we currently live and remind us that during these uncertain and frightening times, “We’re all in this together.”
Radiating a true southern soul and with genuine sincerity dripping from every word that he sings, Brian launches into the chorus in a way that instantly lifts the mood, instills optimism, and makes the soul shine.
We defy anyone who doesn’t smile and tap their feet when they hear Shine a Little Love—a song that perhaps could be a much-needed anthem for hope.

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