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| In Memoriam |
David Vandervelde,
"Summer Time Hits"
It isn't very often I find myself flipping out over an artist so much that I reach out to their label. But the tunes on David Vandervelde's "Summer Time Hits" changed that. A touch of 70's, a bit of alt-country, and a smidge of glam (the good kind, not the Sunset Blvd kind), and you're KINDA close to what made me fall for the music. Here is the backstory on the EP (which is impacting starting Friday, June 25, 2010), the album cover and tour dates are below as well.
David Vandervelde's very clothes were ablaze that day in his Nashville basement. And the only thing that was ever going to put the flames out was laying "Learn How To Hang" to tape. How else does a song so immediate come to be? The repeated mantra of its title, set to an exhilarating, tightly-wound Buckingham-like lick, is just as much Far East philosophy as it is the most serious of stoner advice. It's a self-effacing moment of clarity under the heat of a blowtorch. Same goes for its brother jam, "Wave Country," with its galloping, sunburst metal and inner-bitch-slap hook, "You ain't any cooler in the shade." And how could we, in good conscience, ever sit on songs so immediate for any longer than one red-hot heartbeat? Some jams can't simply be placed on a release schedule months in advance. Songs like these must be loaded in our bow and shot out into the world.
The world in THIS case being AAA, Non-Comm and Alternative Specialty Radio. Myself being the bow. If you DIG the tunes you're hearing, EMAIL ME FOR A DOWNLOAD CODE. There are NO HARD COPIES AVAILABLE.
***Please note: "Learn How to Hang" has a few s-bombs in it, be wary. But it's worth the editing. I promise.
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Dates with Black Mountain: 06/30/10 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon |
