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The latest release from Earwave is "The Taproom Tapes" by Dave Pomeroy and Friends. The 2 CD set is full of improvisational magic by Dave and 14 of his musical friends, including Johnny Neel, Rob Ickes, Pat Bergeson, Guthrie Trapp, Mike Durham and more. Fans of great grooves, sonic exploration and hot guitar solos will not be disappointed!
Dave was elected President of the Nashville Association of Musicians in December 2008 and took office on January 2, 2009.
- SUPERCOOL makes Earwave debut
- Paco Shipp second CD is out now!
- THREE RING CIRCLE gets big raves from Downbeat
- Lori Matera makes a Splash across the Pond!
- More DP in Print
- Recording News
- New Earwave Stuff
The
amazing band SUPERCOOL's new album was just released on Earwave. Check out their mini-documentary video on the video page, directed by Seth Pomeroy.
Dave has finished production of Paco Shipp's second CD for Earwave. Titled "One in a Million" , it represents an amazing growth spurt on every level of Paco's already considerable talents as a harp player extraordinaire, songwriter an guitarist. The album is out, getting great response and is available from the Earwave Store on this site.
THREE RING CIRCLE's debut Cd was reviewed in DOWNBEAT
magazine, one of the most respected publication in the jazz and
instrumental music world. Here it is...
What’s
old is new again for bassist Dave Pomeroy, mandolin/fiddle player
Andy Leftwich and dobro master Rob Ickes on Three Ring Circle. The thin
line between jazz and bluegrass has always been permeable, and the
working definition of an acoustic jam-band is not so far removed from
this old-fashioned-fusion-Americana. These three guys are monster
players; there’s nothing that they can’t handle instrumentally. As a
group, they play mostly original material---showcasing huge chops and
smart, concise interplay. No one player ever stands out in this
well-balanced trio.
Opening with a clever, funky, tuneful rendition of “You Know What I Mean” (the opening song on Jeff Beck’s Blow By Blow), the band struts and solos with confidence and restraint. Pomeroy is a propulsive bas splayer, while dobro player Ickes and mandolinist Leftwich can both fly at top speed. The group’s interaction is a highlight, as is the album’s shifting musical landscapes and impressive solo voices.
Mitch Myers - Downbeat
Opening with a clever, funky, tuneful rendition of “You Know What I Mean” (the opening song on Jeff Beck’s Blow By Blow), the band struts and solos with confidence and restraint. Pomeroy is a propulsive bas splayer, while dobro player Ickes and mandolinist Leftwich can both fly at top speed. The group’s interaction is a highlight, as is the album’s shifting musical landscapes and impressive solo voices.
Mitch Myers - Downbeat
Earwave’s Lorianna Matera makes a splash across the pond!
Lorianna Matera’s debut CD on Earwave Records, ”Nobody’s Angel”, is finding a rapturous reception in the United KIngdom. The CD has been getting airpaly on various BBC affiliates and has just received two great reviews in Britain’s biggest country music magazines, Country Music People and Maverick. Here they are....
From the April 2007 Country Music People....
“Lorianna Matera is a singer who combines her love of country music with bluegrass. The instrumentation here is acoustic but Lorianna’s slightly Dolly Parton-esque vocals are pure mountain country, with a vibrato to die for. The steel guitar lines dropped into the tracks keep the album country enough for traditional fans and this is reinforced by the song choices. Lorianna and her producer, Dave Pomeroy, have excellent taste, and Lorianna’s vocals are so distinctive and the playing so sympathetic that the songs sound fresh and new.
Highlights are Larry Cordle and Leslie Satcher’s Nobody’s Angel, with its opening nick-nick fiddle, steel solo and sweet harmonies from Andrea Zonn and writer Cordle himself, the old Crystal Gayle/Don Williams hit, We Should Be Together, sounding right at home in this acoustic setting and a terrific cut of Loretta Lynn’s God Gave Me A Heart To Forgive, with Russ Pahl’s fabulous steel work sweeping warmly through the track. Another song that really hits home is Pete Wernick’s essay on loneliness, Just Like You.
There are three songs from Matera, two with producer Pomeroy, the most interesting of which is the traditional country cheating song, Wandering Heart, while You Can Never Run Out Of Love and I Looked, I Saw, I Loved lean more toward bluegrass. The album ends with a sparse and intense take on Bruce Springsteen’s desolate You’re Missing.
Vocally, Lorianna Matera is charming, and Nobody’s Angel is a fine collection, beautifully sung and played, and it is an album I know I will return to often.” Julie Flaskett
From the May 2007 Maverick magazine....
“Lorianna Matera is another talented female vocalist to emerge on the acoustic country/bluegrass scene Although this is transplanted New Jersey-born Lorianna Matera’s debut release as a solo artist, she’s done plenty of studio and live work with the likes of Dottie West, Joy Lynn White, Keith Perry and others since her arrival in Nashville some fifteen years ago. This Dave Pomeroy set introduces a voice that is well suited to the kind of folk-leaning acoustic country and bluegrass songs that are presented here. The vocals are mellow and understated, and she has a tendency to bend her voice around the notes, which makes for quite a distinctive style of delivery. She has collected songs from such diverse writers as Gretchen Peters, Loretta Lynn, Leslie Satcher, Matraca Berg, Peter Rowan, Allen Reynolds, Hal Ketchum, Tim O’Brien and Bruce Springsteen, and also includes a trio of her own songs, two co-written with Pomeroy.
Overall,NOBODY’S ANGEL is a melancholy lovesick disc filled with bittersweet tunes and a soulful voice. Springsteen’s You’re Missing, a waltzy ballad, is a song that talks about the pain of losing someone close to you. There’s superb Dobro from Rob Ickes, sensitive mandolin by Andy Leftwich and harmony vocal by Andrea Zonn. The straight country of the Leslie Satcher and Larry Cordle penned title tune reminds me of some of the finer points of Kitty Wells and the harmonies of the Cox Family. Wandering Heart could have been written by either the Louvin Brothers or Bill Anderson—take your pick. The stand up bass sound, the mandolin and the high harmonies of Jon Randall certainly echo the
Louvins, but the steel guitar and fiddle interplay takes on more of the sound of the ballads of Anderson.
Other top class musicians to be heard throughout this superb album include Rob McCoury, Stuart Duncan, Sam Bush, Kenny Malone, Russ Pahl, Tim O’Brien, Glen Duncan, Pat McGrath plus vocal support from Carl Jackson, the Whites, Terry Eldridge and Jeff White. But central to the success of this album is the voice of Lorianna Matera, a talent that deserves to be discovered by the masses.” Alan Cackett
Lorianna Matera’s debut CD on Earwave Records, ”Nobody’s Angel”, is finding a rapturous reception in the United KIngdom. The CD has been getting airpaly on various BBC affiliates and has just received two great reviews in Britain’s biggest country music magazines, Country Music People and Maverick. Here they are....
From the April 2007 Country Music People....
“Lorianna Matera is a singer who combines her love of country music with bluegrass. The instrumentation here is acoustic but Lorianna’s slightly Dolly Parton-esque vocals are pure mountain country, with a vibrato to die for. The steel guitar lines dropped into the tracks keep the album country enough for traditional fans and this is reinforced by the song choices. Lorianna and her producer, Dave Pomeroy, have excellent taste, and Lorianna’s vocals are so distinctive and the playing so sympathetic that the songs sound fresh and new.
Highlights are Larry Cordle and Leslie Satcher’s Nobody’s Angel, with its opening nick-nick fiddle, steel solo and sweet harmonies from Andrea Zonn and writer Cordle himself, the old Crystal Gayle/Don Williams hit, We Should Be Together, sounding right at home in this acoustic setting and a terrific cut of Loretta Lynn’s God Gave Me A Heart To Forgive, with Russ Pahl’s fabulous steel work sweeping warmly through the track. Another song that really hits home is Pete Wernick’s essay on loneliness, Just Like You.
There are three songs from Matera, two with producer Pomeroy, the most interesting of which is the traditional country cheating song, Wandering Heart, while You Can Never Run Out Of Love and I Looked, I Saw, I Loved lean more toward bluegrass. The album ends with a sparse and intense take on Bruce Springsteen’s desolate You’re Missing.
Vocally, Lorianna Matera is charming, and Nobody’s Angel is a fine collection, beautifully sung and played, and it is an album I know I will return to often.” Julie Flaskett
From the May 2007 Maverick magazine....
“Lorianna Matera is another talented female vocalist to emerge on the acoustic country/bluegrass scene Although this is transplanted New Jersey-born Lorianna Matera’s debut release as a solo artist, she’s done plenty of studio and live work with the likes of Dottie West, Joy Lynn White, Keith Perry and others since her arrival in Nashville some fifteen years ago. This Dave Pomeroy set introduces a voice that is well suited to the kind of folk-leaning acoustic country and bluegrass songs that are presented here. The vocals are mellow and understated, and she has a tendency to bend her voice around the notes, which makes for quite a distinctive style of delivery. She has collected songs from such diverse writers as Gretchen Peters, Loretta Lynn, Leslie Satcher, Matraca Berg, Peter Rowan, Allen Reynolds, Hal Ketchum, Tim O’Brien and Bruce Springsteen, and also includes a trio of her own songs, two co-written with Pomeroy.
Overall,NOBODY’S ANGEL is a melancholy lovesick disc filled with bittersweet tunes and a soulful voice. Springsteen’s You’re Missing, a waltzy ballad, is a song that talks about the pain of losing someone close to you. There’s superb Dobro from Rob Ickes, sensitive mandolin by Andy Leftwich and harmony vocal by Andrea Zonn. The straight country of the Leslie Satcher and Larry Cordle penned title tune reminds me of some of the finer points of Kitty Wells and the harmonies of the Cox Family. Wandering Heart could have been written by either the Louvin Brothers or Bill Anderson—take your pick. The stand up bass sound, the mandolin and the high harmonies of Jon Randall certainly echo the
Louvins, but the steel guitar and fiddle interplay takes on more of the sound of the ballads of Anderson.
Other top class musicians to be heard throughout this superb album include Rob McCoury, Stuart Duncan, Sam Bush, Kenny Malone, Russ Pahl, Tim O’Brien, Glen Duncan, Pat McGrath plus vocal support from Carl Jackson, the Whites, Terry Eldridge and Jeff White. But central to the success of this album is the voice of Lorianna Matera, a talent that deserves to be discovered by the masses.” Alan Cackett
MORE DP IN PRIINT - Along
with Marcus Miller, Leland Sklar, Will Lee, Tony Levin, and Neil
Stubenhaus, Dave is one of a dozen bassists interviewed in "A
View From The Side", a great new book written by Michael Visceglia, a
free lance New York City bass player whose credits include Suzanne
Vega, Dar Williams and many others. The book also includes a foreword
by Sting, and Mike's own poignant and funny tales of life in the music
business and his personal experiences. It's available at
www.mikevisceglia.com and is a great read. Check it out!
Dave's latest column "Retro-Rama", for Bass Player Magazine has just been renewed for a third year.
The monthly column features a different unusual or obscure bass from the past, with Dave's
description of its history, unique features and potential musical applications, along with beatiful pictures of the instruments by Mickey Dobo.
RECORDING NEWS - Dave can be heard playing
with Willie Nelson on the new Kris Kristofferson tribute CD "The
Pilgrim" on American Roots Recordings. The track is called "The Legend"
and features Dave on acoustic bass, along with Willie, Randy Scruggs,
Stuart Duncan, Rob Ickes, and Mickey Raphael.
Dave is on country superstar Toby Keith's new CD, "Big Dog Daddy", as well as on the soundtrack of Toby's movie "Broken Bridges", and a video filmed live in the studio to be released soon.
Dave
plays bass and is bandleader on Jon Randall's Sony Records' release
"Walking Among The Living". Jon is
a great singer/songwriter/guitarist who has played with Emmylou Harris,
Lyle Lovett, and Sam Bush and was co-writer of the huge hit and CMA
Song of the Year nominee "Whiskey Lullaby". The CD is produced by the
legendary George Massenburg, and sounds fantastic as a result. Check
this one out - it's special.
Dave
plays all manner of electric basses, including the fretless 8 string, on
Gaelic Storm's "How Do We Get Home" CD, which was released last
year on Lost Again records and reached #1 on the Billboard World Music
Charts. Congrats guys!
Other records Dave has been
on recently include "A Songwriters tribute to George Strait", produced
by Pat Alger for Compadre Records. It features the writers of George's
hits doing the songs themselves in an intimate acoustic setting. It
includes the last recorded performance of the legendary Mack Vickery,
doing a funky blues version of "The Fireman". Julie Lee's excellent
"Stillhouse Road"is also on Compadre, and Dave played on 2 tracks of hot new country group Sugarland's debut
for Mercury Records, which includes the Top 10 single "Baby Girl".
NEW EARWAVE STUFF -There are some exciting new developments in the world of Earwave. We
will soon begin selling a few wonderful CDs through the Earwave Store
on this website, recorded by various friends of mine who I respect and
whose music I enjoy. Some have been released before but all of it needs
to be heard. I played on many of these projects but that's hardly the
point - I want Earwave Records to be a place where people can come to
find the cool under the radar stuff that really demonstrates the
amazing depth and diversity of the Nashville music scene. Real music
for Real people.
Earwave is proud to be making
available through this website a number of great albums by cool artists
who we dig. The first of these is "Little Vinnie" by Vince Santoro, a
multitalented singer, drummer, and songwriter whose impressive resume
includes work with Emmylou Harris, Roy Buchanan, Mary Chapin Carpenter,
The Highwaymen, and Rodney Crowell.
“Little
Vinnie” is Vince’s alter ego artist persona. Together with hit
songwriter, keyboardist and co-producer Billy Livsey, Vince has created
an album that is a unique blend of rock, pop, soul, doo-wop and
psychedelia that is energetic, exotic, humorous and funky. It’s all
tied together by Vince’s expressive and versatile vocals, which range
from classic Paul Rogers-style rock growling to soulful testifying,
tight call-and-response harmonies, and hilarious spoken asides, all
delivered with a rhythmic intensity that can only come from a
singing drummer.
This CD perfectly illustrates the top notch musicianship, eclectic songwriting and genre-defying production values that happen in Music City, and while it may fly under the Music Row “radar”, it can stand up with the best music found anywhere. Check out Little Vinnie - you won’t be disappointed!
This CD perfectly illustrates the top notch musicianship, eclectic songwriting and genre-defying production values that happen in Music City, and while it may fly under the Music Row “radar”, it can stand up with the best music found anywhere. Check out Little Vinnie - you won’t be disappointed!
We
have also added Dan Blegen's CD "Clutter and Space" to the catalog.
Imagine Tom Waits and R. Crumb collaborating on funny, sad and poignant
beatnick jazz and goofy art rock tunes.
Stay tuned...