Bruce Bouton

Bruce Bouton (ASCAP)

Nashville musician featured on records including Garth Brooks and Ricky Skaggs.

Latest Tracks

Bayou Bliss3461/1
Bruce Bouton (ASCAP)Neil Williams (PRS)
21 mixesBrooding ambient lap steel with dark textures, guitars & piano. Desolate, foreboding & spacious

2:12
Cloud3461/2
Bruce Bouton (ASCAP)Neil Williams (PRS)
16 mixesEthereal, wistful ambient pedal steel guitar with gentle piano & floaty synths

2:2298 BPM
At Daybreak3461/3
Bruce Bouton (ASCAP)Neil Williams (PRS)
14 mixesReflective Nashville dobro grows in optimism with ambient pedal steel, gentle piano & light synths

2:5095 BPM
Dobro Debris3461/4
Bruce Bouton (ASCAP)Neil Williams (PRS)
12 mixesMoody, hypnotic dobro pattern with evolving slide melodies accompanied by gentle piano & ambient pedal steel

2:42150 BPM
Swamp Dude3461/5
Bruce Bouton (ASCAP)Neil Williams (PRS)
11 mixesBrooding Texas lap steel guitar with light piano & guitars. Dusty, desolate & atmospheric Americana

3:2059 BPM
Eden State3461/6
Bruce Bouton (ASCAP)Neil Williams (PRS)
13 mixesMellow dobro, double bass & piano with distant ambient guitar textures & pedal steel. Warm, reflective & serene

2:4860 BPM
End Of The Tunnel3461/7
Bruce Bouton (ASCAP)Neil Williams (PRS)
10 mixesDreamlike ambient pedal steel with soft piano & tranquil guitars

2:5399 BPM
Downrush3461/8
Bruce Bouton (ASCAP)Neil Williams (PRS)
11 mixesRelaxed Nashville Telecaster with reflective ambient piano & dreamy pedal steel

2:4780 BPM

The story behind the sound

In 1978, Bruce Bouton moved from Vienna VA to Nashville with the dream of being a professional musician. In the forty some years since then, his lapsteel, dobro and pedal steel guitar playing have been heard on the hit records of Garth Brooks, Ricky Skaggs, Brooks and Dunn, Shania Twain, Keith Urban, Lonestar, Maxwell, Pam Tillis, and Lady Antebellum, among many others. As a songwriter, he has had songs recorded by artists including T. Graham Brown, Garth Brooks, George Straight, Glen Campbell and George Jones. Bruce has toured with Garth Brooks, Ricky Skaggs, Mel Tillis, Foster and Lloyd, and Reba McEntire, and in 2016 he was inducted into the Musician’s Hall of Fame.

Studio musician Bruce Bouton recorded and toured with Garth Brooks and Ricky Skaggs, co-wrote for Brooks’ multi-million selling album ‘Ropin’ the Wind’ and is inducted in the Musician’s Hall of Fame.