Are you good? You never write, you never call. I guess I’ll talk about me then! Well, my favorite season is here. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy summer? I’ve already been to the beach so all is well. Here’s what else is going on….
ACOUSTIC DEMOS
Okay, so you know I’ve been giving my album away for free on my website, right? Well, now I’ve posted all of the acoustic demos for the entire album as well as two additional album demo songs called Concertina and Gone. Most of the songs were recorded with just me and my guitar using my MacBook’s Garageband program. Super simple and lo-fi. If you’re curious to hear it you can head over to my website and get the album for free by forwarding the music to 5 friends or paying whatever you want.
SINGING SIDEMAN
I certainly love being the center of attention all the time but something that I equally enjoy is supporting other artists. My friend, Sara Beth Geoghegan, is an awesome touring piano singer girl and she’s asked me to play guitar for her several times this summer. We’re headed to California for a week, then Arizona, then off to Texas for a while. She’s the star but I’ll be strumming my guitar and singing lots of harmony and even singing leads from time to time. I’ve posted a video of the two of us singing (or should I say practicing on stage) for the first time together on my website.
TWITTER MANIAC
I know I’ve mentioned it before, but the party is really happening at twitter these days. I’m tweeting like a mad man. Sometimes up to once or twice a day. Lookout Ashton Kutcher!
DIGITAL CATALOG
I know I don’t have to tell you that my album is available on iTunes but I DO want to remind you that I have 6 other albums on iTunes. The Luxury Liners and The Foxymorons albums are all on iTunes and we’re now on all of the other digital music providers as well. So go get your download on!
David Dewese here. I hope you are well. I’m doing GREAT now that winter is nearly over. It’s time to hit the trails, bust out the flip flops, smile, and live life again. Winter doesn’t treat this homeboy well.
I think everyone realizes I released my solo record back in October. Well, the entire album is now available on the NoiseTrade website for free download. So if you haven’t grabbed it yet now’s your chance. http://noisetrade.com/daviddewese
The most important thing that I’m wanting to tell y’all about is Noisetrade’s “TELL 5 FRIENDS” option. If you’d rather not pay money for the album you can download it for free by simply sending it to 5 friends. I’m a fan of this option. This helps me spread the word, you get to own the album, and your friends learn about new music. Everyone wins!
For those of you that purchased my album long ago with your hard-earned cash, THANK YOU. If you like the album I’m inviting you to send your friends the link. Since you are my friends, I’ll tell you about some NoiseTrade albums I’ve downloaded and really love. Bryan Brown, Kate York, Judd & Maggie, Katie Herzig, Robby Hecht, and Cheyenne Medders.
Oh yeah, I’m playing a show Thursday night in Nashville. Jeremy, Chop, and Kimbo will be my band mates for the night. We go on 2nd at 9pm. Here are the details:
Thursday March 19th / Nashville, TN
The Rutledge / $5.00 / 8:00pm
w/ Sara Beth Geoghegan & Kara Langer
Well, the solo album is now available for free download or pay-what-you-want right here on the site or at Noisetrade.com. It’s always nice to make money but I’m more interested in you helping me spread the word. You get the album for free by simply letting 5 friends know about the album. If you already have my album, I thank you for investing in my art early on, and I encourage you to still use the widget on my site to forward the album to friends. Who doesn’t like free good music?!
Merry Christmas folks. Here’s a lo-fi Christmas song for download that I recorded a while back with my friend Wes Ware. It’s one of my favorites although I guess it’s not really even a Christmas song. “What Are You Doing New Years Eve?”
I made a solo album! You can get it at iTunes, CD Baby Paypal, or Amazon. Be sure to visit my Facebook artist page at Facebook or MySpace to get the latest.
I recorded it earlier this year in houses around Nashville with the help of my friend Chris Brush. He served as the producer of the album, engineer, mixing whiz, and also ended up playing all the drums.
I played a lot of the instruments but I was fortunate to have the help of several other friends as well. Jeremy Stephens played all the fiddle and mandolin parts. Grant Johnson rocked the steel guitar and banjo. David Wilstermann sent me some bowed bass contributions from Michigan. Aaron Oliva played the upright doghouse bass. Kim Bowen played all the good piano parts. Andy wells played accoridian. Stephen Jerkins played organ. Mark Lange played harmonium.
My friend Alex McCullough mastered the album at Yes Master in Nashville. Phil & Mindy Thornton took the photo one day that summer and Sean Williams of The Nobility did all of the illustration and design work.
I wrote the songs and my Foxymorons band mate, Jerry James, co-wrote This Too Shall Pass with me.
TRACK LIST
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01. Dear Self 3:37
02. This Too Shall Pass 3:09
03. Make The Best Of It 4:39
04. Without You 4:01
05. Keep Hanging On 3:32
06. Why Can’t I Stop Thinking About Her 2:37
07. Moment Too Late 3:46
08. The Only One 3:23
09. Heart Of The Matter 3:16
10. Lake Tawakoni 3:29
11. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright 3:35
The new album isn’t out yet but the coolness has begun. Right now I have a compilation album of all my previous releases available here. You can get a taste of the new album, a song from each of my previous records with The Luxury Liners and The Foxymorons, as well as my brilliant explanation song.
NoiseTrade is a rad new service that lets you pay what you want for an album or if you prefer you can get it for free. I’ve grabbed a few awesome albums off there recently. Kate York, Bryan Brown, and Judd & Maggie are honestly some of my favorite albums right now.
Oh yeah, If you like pimping your myspace page and adding widgets or if you just like my music you can check out all those “share” and “embed” options that the widget offers.
NASHVILLE SCENE
Lanky local singer-songwriter David Dewese recalls Lemonhead Evan Dando’s heartthrob good looks—and his thoughtful, bittersweet tunes also channel the ’90s alt-crooner. Normally the frontman for pensive pop outfit the Luxury Liners and his less frequent project Foxymorons, Dewese plays this show solo. The demos on his MySpace page are a lo-fi lope through wistful pop, the sort that never indulges too long on the lament, instead focusing on sparse arrangements, strong melodies and clever phrasings. 7 p.m. at Edgehill Studios —TRACY MOORE link
PODCAST
The demo for my song “Why Can’t I Stop Thinking About Her” was featured on the Nashville Scene’s “Scenecast” Podcast. Here’s the link to download page.
This pages exists because after ten years of putting out records with my bands I decided I needed to put out a record with my name on the cover. Mostly because when I play solo shows it’s confusing to fill the merch table up with albums that don’t have my name on them. So I’m making a record and most likely some of the songs will end up on future Foxymorons or Luxury Liners albums. Most of them are songs I wrote in 2007 however there are a few leftovers from years back that I’m excited to finally get to record. I’m making the album with my old friend Chris Brush here in Nashville. I hope to have it done by Summer. Anyways, that’s the explanation if anyone was curious.
The latest Foxymoron update is that Jerry and I are slowly writing the 4th album called Bible Stories. We have over 20 songs but we only really like a couple of them. So it’s taking longer than we’d hoped for us to actually start recording. In the meantime we’re also learning about garment making.
The latest Luxury Liners news is that since Larry moved to Michigan we’ve been playing shows with a rotating cast of talented characters. Larry is still in the family however he can’t play shows with us very much so his role is evolving into more of a long-distance studio musician-type role. Scott and I are wanting to record a few songs with our friends Grant Johnson (pedal steel/guitar) and Jeremy Stephens (fiddle/mandolin) and see how that country flavor sounds on us.
