Dave Barron is a rock and roll journalist with over 25 years of experience.   While working for CNN in Atlanta in 1990, he created The Naked Truth, a half hour rock TV show.  For three years, The Naked Truth knocked down walls in the music industry.  Bands like Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Tesla, The Cult, Motorhead, and many more appeared on the groundbreaking show.  Barron's credibility got the show serviced from all the major labels, when such a task was tougher than getting into the White House!!! It was at CNN, he created a team of talented writers, editors, and controlroom techs,  to deliver incredible shows.

The Naked Truth aired from 1990-1993 in Atlanta, and was considered the Wayne's World of rock and roll tv. 

In 1993, The Naked Truth completed it's three year run on TV.  Barron moved into directing music videos, and had a successful run, that included Stuck Mojo's “Risin” in 1998, which world premiered to 5 million viewers on TNT and was also featured on MTV's Total Request LIVE with Carson Daly.  The video was a WCW parody with wrestlers Diamond Dallas Page, as the protagonist, and The Raven as the antogonist.  Daly showcased the video on a live set with Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters, getting body slammed in the process.  All totaled, Barron's music videos have been viewed by over 12 million TV and internet viewers.

After the CNN-AOL merger in 2001, Barron took his talents to Hollywood, where he has made a fine career as a director/cinematographer, working on feature films, reality tv, concerts, and music videos.  In Hollywood, Barron has worked with Bruce Willis, David Caradine, Sarah Maclachlan, Bill Withers, Mary J. Blige, and Oksana Grigorieva.  Willis personally hired Barron to direct and shoot Bruce's blues cover band and Ivan Neville.  It was a short two city tour in Idaho.

From 2004-2015, David worked on many successful reality shows.  Shows like:  Rock of Love with Bret Michaels, Flavor of Love with Flavor Flav, Wife Swap, Trading Spouses, Braxton's Family Values, TI and Tiny, Shah's of Sunset, Punk'd 2.0, Real Housewives of Atlanta, Real Housewives of DC, and Elimidate.  

Depsite what Dave accomplished, something was still missing with all the opportunities coming his way.  He missed working in the music industry.  So in 2013,  he got an offer that would relaunch himself back in the music business.  Dave brushed off some of his writing skills, and did some freelance reporting for online rock and roll website, RockRevoltMagazine.com  He covered Black Sabbath's new LP secret listening party for 75 rock journalists, along with Rolling Stone, LA TIMES, TIME, NY TIMES, and others.  He also covered the premiere screening of the documentary Battlefield of the Mind, directed by well known photographer Fran Strine.  At the event, Dave interviewed Dave Ellefson of Megadeth, Corey Lowery and Donald Carpenter from Eye Empire, and Troy  McLawhorn of Evanescence.  

In 2014, Barron felt that it was time to bring back the radical TV show to radio.  The Naked Truth is a hour long rock specialty show that features rising cutting edge artists, rock and roll heavy weights, and killer sound bites from the TV show archives.  Special guest hosts that have appeared on The Naked Truth include-Chuck Wright from Quiet Riot, Dug Pinnick of King's X and KXM, Evan Seinfeld of Biohazard and Attika 7, Georg Dolivo from Rhino Bucket, Kenny Aronoff, Liberty Devito formerly of Billy Joel, and Nathan Utz of Blonz.  

“I use my gut, and my gut don’t lie to me” is more than just a lyric in Twin Forks’ exuberant “Something We Just Know,” it is a kind of mission statement for the quartet. If you’ve ever been to a musical performance that made you lose all sense of time and place and give in to the cathartic feeling of clapping and dancing and singing along, you’ve already visited the sweet spot where Twin Forks have made it their mission to reside. “Whatever makes the audience stomp their feet and sing at the top of their lungs, that’s what I want to be doing,” says singer/guitarist Chris Carrabba. “I want to be generating that spirit from the stage.

Carrabba figured out the guiding principle for Twin Forks before he even knew exactly what the project would sound like. During recent solo tours, Carrabba -- whose Dashboard Confessional grew from an intimate solo-acoustic affair to a bona fide arena rock band during the mid ‘00s -- says he was reminded how important that audience connection had always been to him as a performer.

He also knew he wanted to craft a sound closer to the music he’d loved as a kid -- classic folk, country and roots music. Growing up outside Hartford, Connecticut in an area he describes as “half-rural, half-city,” Carrabba developed an early fondness for acoustic singer-songwriters he heard on the radio -- Cat Stevens and John Denver and Gordon Lightfoot -- as well as the more obscure Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan and Guy Clark LPs he found in his mother and step-brother’s record collections. “At the beginning of Dashboard, I wanted to write an acoustic record, but every time I played a D,C, or G chord -- which are called the ‘cowboy chords’ -- I would think about how Tom Petty or Cat Stevens or John Denver or Gordon Lightfoot did this already,” says Carrabba. “That’s when I started tuning my guitars all to hell and back, just so they sounded weird to me. I was probably playing DCG anyway, but I didn’t know anything about guitar, and that was how I could get myself feeling like I was in new territory.”

“When I started playing acoustic-based music, I wasn’t trying to avoid traditional folk because I didn’t love it -- I just loved it so much and didn’t wanna do an injustice to it,” Carrabba notes. “And I had other influences and I thought, why can’t I combine this punk and hardcore feeling with this classic folk feeling -- because they were both such massive loves of mine. But right now I’m more excited about utilizing the age-old, time-tested thing and trying to excel within the parameters of a traditional template.”

He still wanted to be in new territory, though, so when he started writing songs for the project that would evolve into Twin Forks, he wanted to add a new twist. So Carrabba spent three years teaching himself traditional fingerpicking technique. “There’s magic in that kind of playing, where you’re managing two guitar parts,” he says. “I have always found it fascinating and it just seemed like it was calling to me.” Equipped with that new set of skills, Carrabba started writing his most delicate, musically articulate compositions yet, temporarily setting them aside for he-didn’t-know-what. In the interim, making his 2011 covers album, “Covered In The Flood,” gave him the chance to explore his relationship with songs by some of his favorite folk and country artists, both classic and contemporary, including Clark, John Prine, Justin Townes Earle and Corey Brannan. He then worked up those covers for a performance at San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.

The experience was a major awakening. “Onstage at HSB, we were elated. All I want to be is elated while I’m performing. Why else should we be getting onstage? We’re not up there to be some good-time charlie band, but we are not hiding the fact that we are elated to be onstage with you and we’re choosing the songs that are giving us the best edge to be able to do that.”

After Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Carrabba returned home with a new sense of purpose and a clarity of vision for Twin Forks. In the previous two years, he had been sticking to a temporary rule he’d imposed on himself as a songwriter: “I had made this rule that I would not say ‘love’ or ‘heart’ in my lyrics,” he explains. “I would talk about those things but I wouldn’t say them. So when I came home from that festival and I did write the first song and it did say both ‘love’ and ‘heart,’ they felt like the right words, after not having used them for so long. I let the songs happen and found a tempo that suits what Twin Forks became.”

“Something We Just Know” came to him first, and then, the flood -- another eight songs in the following eight days. Twin Forks began tracking the new songs whenever they could, between tours with other projects, in a multi-purpose space Carrabba had converted into a studio. Over the course of several weeks starting last fall, they managed to record more than twenty tracks that they plan to whittle down to eleven or twelve for the debut LP they plan to release later this year. “We tracked everything live, and I have this tendency to get really excited about what everyone is doing and I’ll make a little hoot or shout, and you can hear all those things in the final versions of the songs,” says Carrabba. “On ‘Scraping Up The Pieces,’ everytime I listen to it and hear Suzie laughing, I’m dying to remember what could have been so funny. Then we additionally multi-track, which we figured was a thoughtful way of approaching the record. You get the error-prone thing that has all the magic in it, but that doesn’t mean you can’t chase a little more precision. But the goal is always to do our best to get it right in the same room with each other, looking at each other, laughing with each other. I think you can feel that all over the songs.”

Originally recorded with musician friends including mandolin player Suzie Zeldin, bassist Jonathan Clark and drummer Ben Homola, Twin Forks has evolved as a live band to include Kimmy Baranoski on backing vocals, Kelsie Baranoski on mandolin and Shawn Zorn on drums.

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