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Wikipedia / Alex McManus

Alex McManus is a musician from Omaha, Nebraska currently based in Vancouver, BC. He has played with such bands as Acorns, Empire State, Lambchop, Vic Chesnutt, and Bright Eyes. He is also in his own band called The Bruces.

Selected discography

Albums as The Bruces

Year

Album details

1993

Family Day

  • Format: Cassette (Sing, Eunuchs!)

  • Format: CD (2002 · Little Army)

  • Format: Digital (Chunklet)

  • Format: LP, ltd edition of 300 (2007 · Grotto Records)

2002

Hialeah Pink

  • Format: LP (1995 · Sing, Eunuchs!/Theme Park)

  • Format: CD (2002 · Little Army)

  • Format: Digital (2002 · Chunklet)

2002

The War of the Bruces

2004

The Shining Path

2018

Thieves in the Wick--Songs of Simon Joyner

  • Format: LP, ltd edition of 300 (Unread Records/Kerchow Records/Jackson Street Booksellers)

Singles as The Bruces

Year

Single Details

2000

"102" / "Oil and Vinegar"

  • Format: 7-inch (Sommerveg)

2018

"I Make Marks" / "Invisible Ceiling"

  • Format: Lathe-cut 7-inch (Unread Records)

Compilation Appearances as The Bruces

Year

Song

Album details

1994

"Killer"

You and What Army?

  • Format: Cassette (Sing, Eunuchs!)

1995

"Beginning to See the Light Fade"

Our Salvation Is in Hand

  • Format: CD (Theme Park)

1996

"Sharpening Stone"

Songs from a Room

  • Format: 7-inch (Sing, Eunuchs!)

1996

"Upbeat"

Carry On Ooij--A Brinkman Waaghals Compilation

  • Format: CD (Brinkman)

2003

"There"

As Yet No Title - Skewed Songwriter

  • Format: Cassette (Unread Records)

With Acorns

Year

Release details

1989

Acorns

  • Format: LP/Cassette (Post-Ambient Motion)

1991

Plainsongs

  • Format: Cassette (self-released)

With Frontier Trust

Year

Release details

Credits

1992

The Highway Miles EP

  • Format: 7-inch (One Hour Records)

Bass, vocals

With Simon JoynerSimon Joyner

Year

Release details

Credits

1994

The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll

  • Format: LP (Sing, Eunuchs!)

  • Format: LP (2008 · Team Love)

Violin

1995

Heaven's Gate

  • Format: LP (Sing, Eunuchs!)

  • Format: CD (1996 · Brinkman)

Violin

1997

Songs for the New Year

  • Format: LP (Sing, Eunuchs!)

  • Format: CD (Shrimper Records)

Guest artist, guitar, violin

1998

Yesterday, Tomorrow and in Between

  • Format: 2LP, CD (Sing, Eunuchs!)

Guest artist

2003

"Here Come the Balloons" / "They Say Man Cannot Fly"

  • Format: 7-inch (Tongue Master)

Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion, vocals

2004

Lost with the Lights On

2006

Beautiful Losers: Singles and Compilation Tracks 1994-1999

Concertina, mastering, sequencing, violin, whistle (human)

2006

Skeleton Blues

Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel

2009

Out into the Snow

Musician

2017

Step into the Earthquake

Main personnel

With Vic ChesnuttVic Chesnutt

Year

Release details

Credits

1995

Is the Actor Happy?

Concertina, guitar, piano

1996

About to Choke

Acoustic guitar, electric guitar

1998

The Salesman and Bernadette (with Lambchop)

Atmosphere, euphonium, electric guitar, backing vocals, whistle (human)

With Lambchop (band)Lambchop

Year

Release details

1996

Thriller

Performer

1996

"Cigarettiquette" / "Mr. Crabby"

1997

"Whitey" / "Playboy the Shit"

1998

What Another Man Spills

1998

"Your Fucking Sunny Day"

1998

"Give Me our Love (Love Song)"

2000

Nixon

Electric guitar

2000

The Queens Royal Trimma

Guitar

2000

"Up with People" / "Miss Prissy"

Electric guitar, group member

2001

Tools in the Dryer

2002

Is a Woman

Acoustic guitar, electric guitar

2002

Treasure Chest of the Enemy

  • Format: CD (self-released)

  • Tour-only release

Guitar

2002

Pet Sounds Sucks

  • Format: CD (self-released)

  • Tour-only release

Guitar

2004

Aw Cmon

  • Format: LP, CD (Merge, City Slang)

  • Also released as 2LP, 2CD with No You Cmon

Guitar, piano (thumb), group member

2004

No You Cmon

Guitar, piano (thumb), group member

2004

L'Aurore (Sunrise)

  • Format: DVD (Carlotta Films)

2004

Lambchop + The DAFO String Quartet: Boo Fucking Who?

  • Format: CD (self-released)

  • Tour-only release

Guitar

2006

Decline of Country and Western Civilization, Pt. 2

Group member

2006

Damaged

Guitars

2007

No Such Silence (Live at the AB in Brussels)

Guitar

2008

Oh (ohio)

Acoustic guitar, electric guitar

2009

Live at XX Merge

Performer

With Empire State

Year

Release details

Credits

1999

Empire State

Autoharp, bells, cello, chimes, horn, marxophone, trombone

2000

Why Climb the Highest Mountain EP

2001

Eternal Combustion

Multi-instrumentalist

With Bright Eyes (band)Bright Eyes

Year

Release details

Credits

2004

Lua EP

Composer, guitar, vocals

2005

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

Guitar

2005

Motion Sickness: Live Recordings

Group member, performer

Other appearances

Year

Artist

Release details

Credits

1999

Olivia Tremor Control

at NPR Studios

Trombone, percussion

2000

The Deist's Pouch

"Everybody Has a Pouch" / "Backsliding Deist's Prayer"

Acoustic guitar, recorder, backing vocals

2001

Summer Hymns

A Celebratory Arm Gesture

Trombone

2002

Azure Ray

Burn and Shiver

Euphonium, trombone

2004

A Tomato a Day (Brian Poloncic)

The Moon Is Green

  • Format: CD (Public Eyesore)

Engineer

2004

Tilly and the Wall

Wild Like Children

Assistant engineer

2004

Ed Gray

Fresh Coat on the Powder Keg

  • Format: 7-inch (Unread)

Engineer

2006

Ed Gray

The Late Gray Ed Great

  • Format: LP (Hot Potato Records)

Electric guitar, violin, engineer

2007

Charlie Louvin

Charlie Louvin

Featured artist, vocals, background vocals on "The Kneeling Drunkard's Plea"

2007

Outlaw Con Bandana

The Triple Escape

  • Format: Lathe-cut LP

Engineer, musician

2008

Crooked Fingers

Forfeit/Fortune

  • Format: LP, CD (Red Pig & Foreign Leisure)

Assistant Engineer

2009

Miracles of God

O What a Wonderful Day

  • Format: LP, CD (Public School Records)

Engineer

2010

William Tyler

Behold the Sprit

Brass, electronics, tapes, violin

2010

Bill Hoover

Here We Go

  • Format: Lathe-cut LP

Engineer

References