American Band - Out 9.30.16

A powerful and legitimately provocative work, hard edged and finely honed, the album is the sound of a truly American Band – a Southern American band – speaking on matters that matter. DBT made the choice to direct the Way We Live Now head on, employing realism rather than subtext or symbolism to purge its makers’ own anger, discontent, and frustration with societal disintegration and the urban/rural divide that has partitioned the country for close to a half-century. Fueled by a just spirit of moral indignation and righteous rage, AMERICAN BAND is protest music fit for the stadiums, designed to raise issues and ire as the nation careens towards its most momentous election in a generation.
AMERICAN BAND’s considerable force can in part be credited to the sheer musical strength of the current Drive-By Truckers line-up, with Hood and Cooley joined by bassist Matt Patton, keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Jay Gonzalez, and drummer Brad Morgan – together, the longest-lasting iteration in the band’s two-decade history.

AMERICAN BAND follows ENGLISH OCEANS and 2015’s IT’S GREAT TO BE ALIVE!, marking the first time DBT have made three consecutive LPs with the same hard-traveling crew.

This album will release on September 30, 2016. 

Hi folks!  I am a tender youth ..age 76…! …been playing since i was 15 years old...love all kinds of music from jazz and classical to pop and rock..as long as it is music with love and soul i don´t care...
Played in a few bands , for a while semi-professional and also played a lot alone,  in the streets in Europe and Canada and as entertainer in pubs, clubs, social gatherings etc. Know a lot of songs! 

 Now retired i have taken as my special niche to interprete ( note, not cover! ) songs from all genres and giving them new dress and soul and hopefully injecting them with new life...  and now and then i sneak in a song of my own...
It´s become quite successful!  i am on Facebook, Youtube, Fandalism and here on SC... my Fandalism songs soon number 500 songs and they have been viewed/listened to by over 2 million people/times !   Far beyond my imagination!   I have no commercial interests or dreams ..just do it for fun and my own satisfaction and to communicate with people all over the world is stimulating!

My main instrument is guitar, the last 10 years i have concentrated on acoustic guitar, fingerpicking, slide etc. I try a lot of open tunings and also experiment in sounds and styles.. but my other main instrument is my voice, been a singer all my life , try a lot of harmony singing and arranging that ....arranging and mixing mainly in Cubase...
The last years i have started doing collabs with musical friends too, people from Brazil, USA,France and Sweden so far..very stimulating and interesting...
 
Keep swinging!

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