The Kerri Edelman Show presents Modern Rock Band One Less Reason

Memphis is the birthplace of rock.  And the best rock music, even music as hard as One Less Reason’s unique brand of literate, heartfelt hard rock, comes from the soul.  That soul, as songwriter and front man Cris Brown will tell you, is the source of One Less Reason’s The Memories Uninvited. The band’s sixth album offers a cross-section of the talents that always made One Less Reason a unique contender among hard rock acts, while revealing a newer, more contemplative vein in Brown’s songwriting. Brown and One Less Reason have earned that happiness through a career defined by hustle and hard work.  A string of acclaimed albums and tour pairings with acts like Seether and Fuel built such solid word-of-mouth that the band’s independently-released 2010 album Faces & Four Letter Words debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.  Entirely without label backing, the band exceeded digital sales of 400,000 for that record, whose leadoff single, “Faces,” was featured in promo spots for CSI: Miami’s 2011 premiere. The Memories Uninvited is the product of two years of work, during which time Brown also bought the former Kiva Recording Studio and House of Blues Studio on Rayner St. in Memphis—an address that’s now home to Tattooed Millionaire, the label Brown founded with John Falls in 2014.  The Memories Uninvited, then, finds One Less Reason switching up its approach across a dozen cuts that blend genres, styles, and tones.  What gives the album its consistency, beyond the articulate cry of Cris Brown’s voice, is the combination of muscle and tenderness in the music.  And it’s this element—the earned anger, the softness of heart—that places the album beyond the easy confines of the hard rock genre.