From Album "Sleep Dreamt A Brother"
Album available 7th October 2013
on Fire Records

Don't Tell The Others What We Were Singing

It is with great sadness that we announce the untimely passing of Treasured Nashville Outsider Dave Cloud after a short illness

Dave might not have invented 60s garage rock by some 20 years, but he totally re-invented it somewhere between Roky Erikson, Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits and The Turtles, rasping and wheezing through some of the looniest most lascivious care-free tunes you'll ever hum or bellow.    His lyrics were often improvised, one off streams of consciousness, playing off the undoubted talents of his long time backing band The Gospel Of Power, a ragtag group of talented locals gathered together from members of Lambchop and the Silver Jews.  
Dave was working on new album, the eerily titled “Today Is The Day That They Take Me Away” and it was shortly after his diagnosis that he, for the first time in his career, wrote both the words and music to what was planned as the first single, something Dave considered his best work.        "Damn Damn Damn Damn" chimes and reverberates as an unlikely but plaintively perfect pop song with a sassy twist and lip-curling swagger, that early Tom Petty or The Strokes would have been proud of...
“Damn Damn Damn Damn” is available to stream and download for free.  A fitting epitaph to an otherwise ill-fitting musical enigma. 


Don't Tell The Others What We Were Singing

Mathew Sawyer

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