Bruce  is co-author of The Story Behind the Song: 150 Songs that Chronicle the 20^th Century (Greenwood Press; 2004) and editor (with Robert Gordon) of Lost Delta Found; Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942 (Vanderbilt University Press; 2005). The latter book has been nominated for several awards and reviewed in major publications including The New York Times and Chicago Tribune.

Bruce also writes commentaries and essays on a regular basis for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered on the subject of Southern musical and social history. Link to audio at:

www.npr.org/search/index.php?searchinput=Bruce+Nemerov

 Bruce produced, and wrote extensive album notes for, John Work III: Recording Black Culture, a compact disc of field recordings of African-American musicians from Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, 1938-1942. The CD was given the 2007 Grammy Award for “Best Album Notes.” Link to a review in The New York Times at:

www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/arts/music/02warr.html

 Bruce has composed and performed music for film and television and produced and recorded albums for a variety of companies, including Warner Bros., Flying Fish, RCA Victor, and Rounder. He was an original cast member of Public Radio’s comedy show Riders Radio Theater starring Riders in the Sky and now tours as a solo guitarist and in a vocal & guitar duet, The Fedora Bros.

Spring 2010: Spring Fed Records releases Bruce’s first collection of original and “recomposed” traditional tunes. Zeno Dreamed exposes the Scots-Irish and African-American roots of Southern music.