Bryen Willems

Bryen Willems (a.k.a. the Swamp Duck) usually fronts a five piece band called Bryen and the Bayou Boogie Boys - playing a mix of originals and drawing from a virtual treasure trove of the best country, blues, swamp and southern rock from the last 50 years.
yens debut album is set for release early 2007, titled TOO COLD AT HOME. Recorded at Unit 4 Studios, with producers Gary Brown and Les Scott the album is a collection of originals and songs that have influenced Bryen over the decades.

Too Cold At Home is a fine collection of both originals and great, if not that well known, Cajun country tracks Bryen Willems plays music that is rugged, unpretentious, honest and its real. Deborah Minter, CapNews

He has worked with artists such as duo SweeneyKilleen, Ronni Rae Rivers and Nicki Gillis, as well as several overseas artists including Cajun songstress Gayla Lejeune and Texas singer-songwriter Floramay Holliday.
In addition to fronting his own band, Bryen also has the privilege of playing bass or guitar and providing backing vocals for local country band Tall Timbre. You can also find him regularly playing alongside one of Australias top country vocalists Nicki Gillis, featuring in many classic country duets.
Bryen has worked as an announcer in country radio on Sydney's 2RRR88.5FM and at Festival 101.5FM during the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
His musical interest was sparked only after settling down in Australia, having moved from his Louisiana home with wife Karen. An Australian citizen for a number of years now, Bryens musical influences are of bayou heritage with an Australian flavour.
His debut album TOO COLD AT HOME, features self-penned tracks HONKY-TONK SONG, BEER AND LIPSTICK, co-writes DEEP DOWN SHALLOW, BABY ARE YOU RUNNIN and the beautiful duet AS LONG AS I LIVE with songbird Nicki Gillis. With the first single HONKY-TONK SONG receiving good radio support.
Too Cold At Home, a delight. Here is a toe tapping, Swamp, or Bayou sound, with an Aussie influence. Bryen also illustrates his song writing ability by providing two completely home grown songs, and co-writing three more. If song titles like Beer and Lipstick,Baby Are You Running? and Honky Tonk Song, lead you to thinking that this is a happy energy packed package, then youve got it in one, and the lovely duet with fast rising Nikki Gillis,As Long As I Live, puts the strawberry on top on the cake. Burt Everett, Bundaberg Guardian
Bryen and the Bayou Boogie Boys shows are just the thing when you want a shoe-shufflin, hip swingin, toe tappin, high energy straight-up country. Touches of Ricky Skaggs, Hank Williams, Billy Joe Shaver, Merle Haggard and Chris LeDoux all rolled into one. Of course, if you'd rather have some nancy-boy, sissy, pseudo-country pop stuff you'll have to look elsewhere none of that around here!