Now available in our catalog: "Best No Money Can Buy" Asa's 2001 CD, and his retrospective "Time In My Way", a compilation of this phenomenally prolific and profound songwriter's greatest hits.

Brebner's 2001 work, some say his best.

"Asa Brebner is one of those prolific folks that stares at the world with a wry, cockeyed grin. The record sounds as though it had a half-million dollar budget recorded in Nashville. With such powerful production, it's not at all hard to envision any of these songs sandwiched between the brainless pop found on commercial radio."
-Northeast Performer

"Lyrically and musically speaking, Asa Brebner's new album, Best No Money Can Buy is the finest work he's ever produced. Pristinely recorded, Brebner gives the listener a gigantic slice of Americana that incorporates everything from country and blues to pop and carnival. He has become a masterful songcrafter along with one of the tastiest guitar players this region has to offer."
-Metronome

"Best No Money Can Buy is all new, and it's a good 'un. It's mainly just good old, Stones-rooted rock and roll, with a couple of ragged country lopers thrown in, all filtered through Brebner's distinctive point of view, a combination of acerbic cynicism and sensitivity (on the one hand, Too Many Assholes (in the world); on the other, The Roses I Never Bought You). It also supplies this year's summer anthem in Go Downtown, which name-checks Boston ("Gonna drive my Camaro right in from Revere/Drink lots of pizza and eat lots of beer") in the finest 'Roadrunner' tradition."
-Stuart Munro

"The abundant, instantaneous charm of his new album, which feels both as familiar and lived-in as a favorite denim jacket and as new and unpredictable as tomorrow. Although Brebner's songs unabashedly draw from the pantheon of rock royalty (see, for example, the "Tangled Up In Blue" guitar figure that threads through the poignant The Roses I never Bought You and the chugging Stones riffs that make You Stole My Woman strut and buck with perfect nose-thumbing swagger), his lyrics almost always keep you guessing...what makes his songs exceptional is how much emotional terrain they cover."
-Soundcheck

A retrospective collection with two never-before released tracks, Not Much Life, and Angela.

"In looking back at his nearly three decades in the Boston rock scene, Asa Brebner, formerly of the Modern Lovers and Robin Lane & the Chartbuster, paints a picture that includes hues of other great rockers who have stood the test of time. Prophesy is full of Lou Reed four-beat crush, and Turn the Pages Back sounds most Dylanesque. The collection also offers the rockabilly fun of Jack's On Drugs, the anti-devotional rave-up Love Only Makes the World Go Round, and the even more misogynistic surf guitar tune, I Don't Want You. On the mellower side are the ironically dreary Sunshine Blue Skies, the oddly chipper Pain and Doubt, and the appropriately shaky House of Cards.
-Mathew S. Robinson
(The Boston Globe)

Released in 2000, "I Walk The Streets" is Asa's third CD. This self-produced (Asa Brebner & Andrew Mazzoni) album was recorded at a scattering of local studios and features the accustomed mix of regulars and friends sitting in for local favorites and new material: I Walk The Streets, Unhappy Birthday Girl, No Good For Anything, Going Home, Love Only Makes the World Go Round, Don't Ever Lose A Memory, Thru With Girls, Sunshine Blue Skies, Jack's On Drugs, I'm Not Going To Work Today, Turn The Pages Back, At Least Nobody Else Has Our Memories, Mr Hide,

"Ragged Religion" is Asa's second release following his debut "Prayers Of A Snowball In Hell" (now a collector's item since only a handful of the original pressing is left.) Ragged Religion features the local hit House Of Cards. Many of Brebner's friends appear on this fine production including: Scott Baerenwald, "Cranky" Frankie Blandino, Billy Conway, Brother Cleve, Joe Donnelly, Pat Hamel,Tim Jackson, Ian Kennedy, Andrew Mazzone, John Pfister, Johnny Sciascia, and Pat Wallace; engineered by Ducky Carlisle. Called "a [expletive] genius" "a savvy songwriter" "a gifted guitarist" "there's an ache in Brebner's voice that will speak to anyone with half a heart... and a witty irony... just the right balance of resolve and unease, pride and frustration, bad breaks and survival."

Asa's debut CD ... is not available for love nor money.