Mando Saenz - Bucket

Wandering the streets of Houston, playing regular gigs at bars like the Continental Club, or settling down for drinks with the kinds of characters that populate poetry (but rarely read it), Mando Saenz wrote it all down – in melody, on little scraps of paper, or in his head.

Saenz' songs usually aren't about linear expectations or predictable narratives, they are flashes of emotion, snapshots of time reassembled in his songs with rhyme and melody to make uncommon, musical sense.

For his 2008 album Bucket, Mando carried most of the songs from Houston to his new home in Nashville, finishing out a few of them with co-writers like Will Kimbrough, Kim Richey and R.S Field, a first for the previously lone writer.

The songs on Bucket, are still populated with life's losers, soul-searchers, and dreamers - the kind songwriting that won him praise for his more acoustic-tinged debut, Watertown.

• Wrong Guy
• Pocket of Red
• A Touch is All
• Pittsburgh
• Seven Dollars
• In The Back Of Your Mind
• I Don't Like It
• All Grown Up
• Come Out Tonight
• Candy Red
• Last Goodbye