Rolling Stone, Paste and The Washington Post are extolling the talents of Luke Brindley.

“I’ve definitely been getting a lot of response, critically, in magazines and newspapers,” he said from his home in northern Virginia outside Washington, D.C. “We’re always looking to have a bigger audience and tour more nationally and just get more people turned on to the music.”

The singer-songwriter-guitarist will bring his thoughtful acoustic music to the Ark in Ann Arbor for a free show at 8 p.m. Feb. 24.

Brindley

“I expect there’ll be a lot of people who aren’t familiar with what I do, so I really want to make a point to talk about the songs,” he said. “I want to put on a really engaging show because when the audience is totally unfamiliar with what you do, they don’t have any favorite songs yet or they don’t necessarily know what to expect.”

Expect to hear “Five Songs,” a 2008 EP that previews a disc he is in the studio working on now.

“The song ‘Wrecking Ball,’ I was thinking about the power of love — real love, not just romantic love — love in action to change people’s lives in a real way, on a small scale or a big scale, to change our world,” Brindley said. “Sounds kind of idealistic, but I was just thinking about ways I’ve seen that in my own life.

“I worked a little bit in an orphanage in Brazil a few years ago in college, you know, things like that, when you see people actually working to change people’s lives,” he said. “My wife and I also recently adopted a drug-exposed baby from north New Jersey and things like that — you can actually see that people’s lives can really be changed.”

Brindley’s first disc, “How Faint the Whisper,” was released in 2002. He then teamed up with his brother, Daniel, who plays keyboards, for the Brindley Brothers’ “Playing With the Light” (2004) and “Filled With Fire” (2006) before going solo with a self-titled disc in 2007.

“A good song, it has to resonate with the listener. My goal is to write something that people can kind of take with them and get their own meaning from and make their own,” he said.

Brindley called himself a “lyric guy,” but said a song also should be interesting musically because he loves playing guitar.

In fact, he’s so passionate about the guitar, he made one of his own.

“Every time I pull it out at a gig, people think it’s some old, vintage guitar with some history because it’s so worn from playing it so much, but it’s not; it’s only about 10 years old, but it looks like it’s 50 years old.”

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