A Metropolitan Guide, A Farewell

Back in the early days of my songs (2009-2011), I recorded and performed under my own name --Brian Davis. I released two EPs (three if you count the terrible EP of covers prior) before moving into band life for a couple of years. When the band disbanded and my next batch of songs came around, I felt a pull to come up with a stage name; a name that might help me stand out from the other ten million Brian Davises of the world. In those days, I believed my music was headed somewhere. I was right, but not at all in the ways I thought. In the winter of 2012, and after much deliberation, I landed on 'A Metropolitan Guide.' The name came from a few places. First, the name itself came from a mislabeled YouTube video of Tom Waits' song, "Metropolitan Glide." Afterward, it was Erin Belieu's poem, "When at a Certain Party in NYC" that I read in a poetry class. This didn't specifically contribute to the name itself, but the metropolitan setting helped give rise to my own poem that I named,…