{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Brock Zeman | image = BrockZeman.jpg | caption = | image_size = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = 1981 | birth_place = | death_date = | origin = Canada | instrument = | genre = Roots<br />Americana | occupation = Singer-songwriter, producer | years_active = 2000–present | label = Busted Flat Records and Mud Records | website = [http://www.brockzeman.com/ Brock Zeman] }}
'''Brock Adam Zeman'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/890282459 |title=BIG OL BASS |website=ASCAP |publisher=American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers |access-date=March 13, 2023}}</ref> is a singer-songwriter from the Ottawa Valley based in Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada. He has released twelve albums<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.brockzeman.com/brock-zeman-discography-2/|title=Discography -|language=en-US|access-date=7 February 2019}}</ref> and a live DVD/digital audio release called The Pinball Sessions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bustedflatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/brock-zeman-the-pinball-sessions|title=Brock Zeman – The Pinball Sessions, by Busted Flat Records|website=Busted Flat Records|access-date=7 February 2019}}</ref> He is known as a prolific performer having given more than two hundred live performances across North America every year for the last decade.<ref name="ottawacitizen1">[https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/road+with+Brock+Zeman/4067137/story.html]{{dead link|date=November 2015}}</ref>
Before his mid-20s, Zeman had signed with indie label, Busted Flat Records, had played most major music festivals in Canada and performed on stage with some of the top talent of the contemporary roots and Americana scenes, including Steve Earle, Lynn Miles, Fred Eaglesmith, Corb Lund, Toby Keith, Prairie Oyster, and Blackie & the Rodeo Kings.<ref>[http://www.ottawasun.com/entertainment/thescene/2010/06/22/14476836.html]{{dead link|date=November 2015}}</ref>
''Exclaim!'' magazine calls Zeman "a songwriter worth hearing over and over again"<ref>McPherson, David. (14 February 2007) [http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/FolkAndCountry/brock_zeman_dirty_hands-welcome_home_ivy Brock Zeman & the Dirty Hands Welcome Home Ivy Jane]. Exclaim.ca. Retrieved on 25 November 2015.</ref> while CKUA hails Zeman's work as "intelligent, tuneful, heart-felt songs served up with an authentic but understated style." The Waterloo Region Record says that "Zeman doesn't surrender an inch to any Texas singer-songwriter you care to name. Closer to home, he has the chops to join the likes of Fred Eaglesmith on the lonesome outskirts of town after the street lights come on."<ref name="brockzeman.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.brockzeman.com/press.html |accessdate=22 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515154659/http://www.brockzeman.com/press.html |archivedate=15 May 2009 |title=Brockzeman - Official Website of Brock Zeman - Reviews }}</ref>
Zeman has taken a new direction and founded Mud Records (2011), his signature label for releasing his own material and the imprint for showcasing emerging roots talent in Canada, including albums by Robert Larisey and Brothers Through the Hill, which Zeman also produced.<ref name="ottawacitizen1"/> The Ottawa Citizen says that Zeman "recognizes talent when he sees it" and ''Rootstime'' named Mud Records "a promising young label."<ref name="brockzeman.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Psst+Heard+about+Brothers+Through+Hill/4214779/story.html |accessdate=22 March 2011 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
==Discography== *The Carnival is Back in Town (Busted Flat Records, 2017) *The Pinball Sessions (Live DVD and digital audio release) (2016) *Pulling your Sword out of the Devil's Back (Busted Flat Records, 2015) *Rotten Tooth (Busted Flat Records, 2013) *Me Then You (Busted Flat/Mud Records 2012) *Ya Ain't Crazy Henny Penny (Mud Records, 2011) *Live @ the Acoustic Grill (Acoustic Grill Records, 2008) *$100 Difference (Busted Flat Records, 2008) *The Bourbon Sessions (Busted Flat Records, 2007) *Welcome Home Ivy Jane (Busted Flat Records, 2006) *Brock Zeman and the Dirty Hands (Busted Flat Records, 2005) *Songs from the Mud (Busted Flat Records, 2005) *Cold Winter Comes Back (Busted Flat Records, 2003) <ref name="bz-discography">{{cite web|title=Discography|url=http://www.brockzeman.com/brock-zeman-discography-2/|website=Brock Zeman|accessdate=19 January 2018}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Music|Canada}} *Music of Canada
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.brockzeman.com/ Official Website of Brock Zeman]
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