“13” (2023)

Artist: Bruce “Bruiser” Rummenie

Release: 2023

Genre: Mixed genre

"13" is a collection of assorted songs I've written but never recorded - and they are all over the board stylistically. The only thing they have in common is me and my guitar. I'd like to thank bandmate Dan Henry for encouraging me to embark on this project, as well as for recording, producing, and musically contributing to each song. Thanks, brother! - Bruiser

Tip Top Tap (2012)

Artist: Bruce “Bruiser” Rummenie

Release: 2012

Genre: Blues

This EP is a foray into taking the blues into the new millennium. My old school blues guitar tastes tempered by producer and keyboardist Neal Robinson – a modern World Beat aficionado.

This Noise In My Blood (2011)

Artist: Bruce “Bruiser” Rummenie & Steve Davenport

Release: 2011

Genre: Blues

“These songs began as a conversation between a poet and a musician. When the musician said he had never written a song with anyone, the poet went home, wrote a song lyric that evening, his first ever, and sent it to the musician, who spun the words into a song by the next day. The conversations continued, and within a few months the one song had become seven. They wrote in separate rooms, but the result was a collaboration that surprised both of them: the poet who played no instrument beyond the words he wrote down and the musician who took the poet’s words and made them sing.”

— Steve Davenport

All I Know (2005)

Artist: The Javelinas

Release: 2005

Genre: Acoustic Americana, Country, Folk, Blues, Gospel

Javelina – (ha ve-lee-na)
1. a small wild desert boar;
2. person committed to performing honest, no nonsense, acoustic American roots music

From Vice To Virtue and Vice Versa (2001)

Artist: Bruiser & the Virtues

Release: 2001

Genre: Blues

“Bruiser and the Virtues’ debut CD admirably till the fertile soil of a genre steeped in American jazz, swing, and blues tradition and is a noteworthy addition to any record collection…”

— Don Gerard. News Gazette. 2001

The Impalas (1995)

Artist: The Impalas

Release: 1995

Genre: Blues

“Original blues-rock done with finesse and craft. The Impalas have been playing around Champaign for some while now, and their long hours spent in the trenches show….They mesh well together:crisp, lean and tightly integrated, there’s a sharp interplay between the band members that shines on this album…and if you haven’t heard or seen them live, then you should definitely check them out…”

— The Octopus, Sept 97

Waxing The Cat (1987)

Artist: The Mudhens

Release: 1987

Genre: Blues

Blues and blues rock by one of Champaign/Urbana’s most popular bands in the mid 80s.