Dead Rock West
Honey And Salt
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Dead Rock West debut album is rock, folk, country, punk, and pop thrown in a jar and shaken, not stirred. DEAD ROCK WEST ON TOUR NOW with John Doe from X.
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DEAD ROCK WEST AND SANTABABY
Dead Rock West is opening for Mike Ness (Social Distortion) at Buck Owens Crystal Palace on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 and will be promoting their new holiday single Santa Baby which will be released November 18, 2008. Dead Rock West’s Los Angeles show will be November 23, 2008 with Donna The Buffalo. They are currently in the studio recording a spirituals album which is being produced by Peter Case (Plimsouls) and will feature guests John Doe (X, The Knitters), Mark Olson (Jayhawks), and more.
Dead Rock West Tour Dates
Nov 21, 2008 The Lodge Ventura, CA w/ Todd Hannigan
Nov 23, 2008 House of Blues LA, CA w/ Donna The Buffalo
Dec 02, 2008 Crystal Palace Bakersfield, CA w/ Mike Ness
January 2009 USA TOUR TBA
March 2009 UK TOUR TBA
Dead Rock West’s debut album "Honey and Salt" was mixed to tape by Grammy winner Richard Dodd (Dixie Chicks, Wilco, Johnny Cash). The album has gotten stunning reviews and has been hailed as having "packed a career's worth of potential hit songs onto a single disc" (Amplifier Magazine). "The jagged edge of country rock that brought such acclaim to Los Angeles legends X in the '80s" (Houston Chronicle).
Dead Rock West front woman Cindy Wasserman has been making waves in the
world of Americana roots music with her tuneful collaborations with The
Jayhawks' Mark Olson on his album, "The Salvation Blues" as well as the female vocalist on John Doe's tours in support of Doe's album, "A Year in the Wilderness" (Yep Roc). 3 songs from “Honey And Salt” have been featured in ABC’s “MEN IN TREES”.
Los Angeles-based roots-rock/Americana band Dead Rock West has been touring non-stop sharing the stage with The Knitters, Mark Olson, Bob Schneider, and John Doe in the U.S. and Europe. Paste Magazine featured “Highway One”.
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Dead Rock West 2007 SUMMER TOUR with John Doe from X. ON TOUR NOW! Check out tour schedule
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“Dead Rock West have packed a career’s worth of potential hit songs onto a single disc….Honey and Salt spans the history of rock, from Elvis to post-grunge…” – Amplifier
As heard on ABC's "Men In Trees"... and on 6 tracks (including the title track) off of Mark Olson's (The Jayhawks) new album Salvation Blues.
This Limited Edition debut cd comes in a beautiful digipack package with a full color booklet that rocks. When you buy two cd's, you get a 20% discount so you can get an extra cd for a friend.
Dead Rock West Tour dates—MORE SOON!
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July 15 - The Abby Pub - Chicago, IL (w/ John Doe)
July 16 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI (w/ John Doe)
July 17 - Vaudeville Mews - Des Moines, IA (w/ John Doe)
July 18 - 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN (w/ John Doe)
July 19 - The Mill - Iowa City, IA (w/ John Doe)
July 20 - The Reverb - Cedar Falls, IA (w/ John Doe)
July 23 - Club Café - Pittsburgh, PA (w/ John Doe)
July 24 – 8x10 – Baltimore, MD (w/John Doe)
July 25 – World Café Live – Philadelphia, PA (w/John Doe)
July 26 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY (w/John Doe)
July 27 – T.T. the Bear’s – Cambridge, MA (w/John Doe)
July 28 – Jake’s Bar & Grille – Providence, RI (w/John Doe)
July 30 - Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ (w/ John Doe)
July 31 – Iota Club & Café – Arlington, VA (w/John Doe)
August 2 – Capitol Ale House – Richmond, VA (w/John Doe)
August 3 – Hideaway BBQ – Raleigh, NC (w/John Doe)
August 4 - Visulite - Charlotte, NC (w/ John Doe)
August 5 – Smith’s Olde Bar – Atlanta, GA (w/John Doe)
August 6 - The Nick - Birmingham, AL (w/John Doe)
August 7 - The Basement - Nashville, TN (w/ John Doe)
August 8 - Woodhouse Concert Series - Clayton, MO (w/ John Doe)
August 9- Davey's Uptown - Kansas City, KA (w/John Doe)
August 10- The Mercury - Tulsa, Oklahoma (w/John Doe)
August 25 - Safari Sam's - Los Angeles, CA (w/ John Doe)
September 2 - Summer Strummer Festival - Los Angeles, CA
MORE DATES TO BE ADDED SOON!
MySpace link: http://www.myspace.com/deadrockwest
Website: http://www.deadrockwest.com
The best music tends to hit a listener from seemingly out of nowhere, fully formed and ready to infiltrate the psyche. Of course even the newest discovery has paid their dues somewhere, which means there are often real treasures often right under our very noses. So it is with Dead Rock West.
Flying just under the radar, this quintet featuring Cindy Wasserman (vocals, starbourine,) Frank Lee Drennen (vocals, guitar, harmonica,) Phil Parlapiano (mandolin, octave mandolin, Hammond organ, Vox Continental,) Bryan Head (drums) and David J. Carpenter (Bass) has honed their sound in California clubs, building a rep and an audience while road testing the material found on their debut disc Honey & Salt. Now with word of mouth building and an armful of new recordings the group is ready to hit the next plateau.
With a name like Dead Rock West, youd be correct in assuming there are occasional country and folk influences, but really thats just touching on the bands capabilities. Dashes of garage, power pop jangle, and rock n roll populate the set list, played with passion to match the songcraft. The secret weapon here? Its the vocal harmonies. Dont misunderstand. This is one tight band all around. But Wasserman and Drennens voices are a seamless blend that add melody to already impressive hooks. Icing on an already pretty tasty cake.
While Dead Rock West has been together since 2002, the group is really a culmination of years of work in Southern California nightspots. Drennen spent time playing the acoustic clubs in San Diego, teaming up in the early 90's with former Alarm guitarist Dave Sharp and forming pop group Loam shortly thereafter. They would go on to release two albums in the U.S. and Spain, and win a San Diego Music Award in the process, with their song Telephone later recast by Dead Rock West as an amphetamine fueled Byrds flavored rocker. Drennen also spent time with The Hatchet Brothers, teaming up with troubadour Gregory Page for two albums and a barroom sing-a-long that kept San Diego clubs packed for years. He also joined Page and Carpenter in The Troubled Sleepers. In fact it was with the latter that the seeds of Dead Rock West were sown.
I met Cindy through Gregory, remembers Drennen. She and I recorded two songs at Dave's house just for fun with the Troubled Sleepers as the backing band. It was then that we realized we had something special in the sound of our two voices together. Describing the inspired vocal interplay, Drennen is effusive. He notes the soulfulness of Wassermans voice, but also points out their varied vocal approach. Cindy thinks of the mic stand as an antenna to the spirits and that they use the stand to speak through her. I'm more visceral, prowling. Looking to hunt that connection down and kill it.
For her part, Wasserman is no stranger to either stage or studio. Most recently she has toured and recorded with Grant Lee Phillips. In fact all the members have extensive touring backgrounds. Carpenter has toured and recorded with Toni Childs as well as Doe and Phillips. Head does double duty with his band Abandoned Pools, and has toured with Shelby Lynne. Most impressively, Parlapiano was previously in Geffen Records act The Brothers Figaro and has performed with Grant Lee Buffalo, Tracy Chapman, Lucinda Williams, Rod Stewart, Social Distortion, amongst many others
All that experience is used to great effect on Honey & Salt. Recorded at Grandmas Warehouse in Echo Park, the disc was recorded the way they used to; 2" tape, 24 tracks, no click tracks or pitch correction machines. In addition to the members of Dead Rock West, the genesis of the album involves a few other key players. The Section Quartet (Sam Phillips, etc.) provide strings and pedal steel player Greg Leisz also contributes, with the album mixed by Grammy winner Richard Dodd (Tom Petty, George Harrison, Steve Earle, Traveling Wilburys etc.)
Basically I contacted him via his web site, Drennen recalls. I told him about ourselves, that we were recording to tape and I asked if he ever mixed any one who was not rich or famous. To his surprise Dodd replied. He responded saying he was interested in hearing the works in progress. Nervously, I sent him the songs. We were'nt even finished overdubbing at this point. After a couple of long phone converstions I was convinced this man loves music and wants to be a part of projects he can be proud to put his name on. Needless to say we ended up in Nashville and spent six wonderful days hearing our songs come alive and listening to his stories.
The trips end result are the Honey & Salt tracks, as catchy and varied a collection of songs as youre likely to come across. Whether Wasserman or Drennen take the lead, the groups way with a melody cant be denied. Our premise from the beginning was two great voices singing great songs, simple as that, states Drennen. And it's still our goal. Despite those impressive credentials, Dead Rock West is more than the sum of its parts, and its easy to hear why. Its just good songs, he continues good naturedly. Those tunes will pull you in;, their live performances will cement the deal. There is no doubt Dead Rock West is just getting started. We want songs that are wrapped in real human emotion, god and sex, says Drennen. Songs that will still be useful to the ear in 20/30 years.
- Bart Mendoza
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ALL LYRICS FOR HONEY AND SALT
ALL I KNOW [5:26] | [ clip ]
The desert skies are filled with stars
As far as you can dream
A parachute of lights that bloom
Across the sky's tree
Down here on the ground
How free am I?
Like a crow, I wish my soul
To rise and fly
(Chorus) Here's a promise/ There's a lie
God knows heaven's in disguise
The desert wind is blowing strong
Over hills and far beyond
All I know is all that's gone
With poisoned toungues the demons come
To live inside your brain
Like neon lights/ The stars shine bright
To make me feel again
Down here on the ground
How free am I?
Like a crow I wish my soul
To rise and fly
(Chorus)
I make a wish
I count to three
I don't believe in what I can't see
So Jesus come back and die again
For me
Here's a promise/ There's a lie
God knows heaven's in disguise
Because it ain't on the ground
And it ain't in the sky
The desert wind is blowing strong
Over hills and far beyond
All I know is all that's gone
All I know
All I know .....
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I REALLY WANTED YOU [3:46] | [ clip ]
You say you don't like me
Well, I don't like you too
I don't like what you stand for
I don't like what you do
You stand out like a weapon
Pistols on your heels
You don't get what I care for
You don't care how I feel
But I really wanted it
I really wanted you
You don't like me
I don't like you
You don't want me
But I wanted you
You say you don't like me
So what can I say?
I gave you what I had to give
You pushed it all away
You act like you're better than me
You talk like you're smarter than me
I wish that you'd let me be
but you don't even think of me
And I really wanted it
I really wanted you
I really wanted you
I really wanted you
TELEPHONE [2:22] | [ clip ]
It's getting clearer as we speak
Bits and pieces on the telephone
I knew you in another time
There was nothing you were afraid of
And I'm so far away from that now
I'm so far away from you now
Thirty minutes away
But the drive would take days
Find a marker on the road
Look behind
See how far I've come
And I'm so far away from you now
You were less my love
And more my lesson
And I'm so far away from you now
You were less my love
And more my lesson
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GOING HOME [4:16] | [ clip ]
Thirty thousand feet below
The people move around
And so they go
To the places where they belong
The holidays have come and gone
Flying back to where I live and work
Above the clouds
I swear I still feel under earth
So much has to do with not quite "being there"
I would gladly go;
I can't afford the fare
(Chorus)
It's a long way to being known
It's a long way to the unknown
It's a long way
But I swear I'm going home
Landed on the ground at 7:01
Played the mandolin
Waited for my ride to come
Thought of Akron, a girl I used to love
And how the clouds are fields
When You're flying so high above
(Chorus)
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BOREDOM (HOW DID I GET HERE?) [3:39] | [ clip ]
Boredom is driving me to drink
The bottle gets emptied
faster than I can sink
Ignore the phone/ lock the door
Move at speeds/ I have never known
Boredom is driving me to drink
Boredom is driving me to drink
My body's getting numb
While my heart aches
I say I'm gonna get out
Move to another place
boredom don't you follow me
How did I get here?
When can I leave?
Did I choose this life?
Did it choose me?
Boredom is driving me to drink
The bottle gets empty
Faster than I can sink
They say you pick your poisons
Well, I agree
This life I have chosen
is killing me
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DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME [3:08] | [ clip ]
There was a time
When you would heal my wounds
You were the Queen
Over the sun and moon
(Chorus)
Yeah, baby
Don't you worry about me
Yeah, baby
I'm standing on my own two feet
You came along
I was the luckiest one
Now you're gone
I'm standing in the sun
(Chorus)
Yeah, baby
don't you worry about me
Yeah, baby
'cause you're not looking out for me
I'm not hear at all
I'm not waiting for your call
I waiting for something new
(Chorus)
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DESERT ROSE [3:26] | [ clip ]
Desert Rose ()
God bless all my promises
that have been said not done
God bless all the things I lack
And what I have become
At 4:15 my mind is clean
A flowing stream of twighlight dreams
Through the cold narcotic steam
I realize what's gone wrong
(Chorus)
My desert rose/ living where nothing grows
My dried up soul/ is just enough
to let your colors show
God bless who you are for me
He knows I fail for you
God bless how you let me be
Just when I need you to
I know that you're so good to me
Still I am too blind to see
I'm afraid I'll never be
Much more than just a fool
(Chorus)
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PRETTY DISASTER [3:39] | [ clip ]
Throw me a lifeline, baby
before I drown
I need a rescue, baby
before I go down
Sober as a cop on sunday
Thinking like a drunk
Shooting rounds at a battle ship
Until it's sunk
(Chorus)
Pretty disaster
Going all the way
Pretty disaster
is only one step away
Every silver lining, baby
Has a cloud
There's a whisper inside my head
Screaming loud
I scare myself,
Stepping over the line
Afraid I'm gonna let you down
I tell you everything's fine
(Chorus)
You're the one who loves me, baby
You're the one I want
You're the one who keeps me
hanging on
Throw me a lifeline, baby
Before I drown
I need a rescue, baby
Before I go down
You gotta know your weakness
If you wanna be strong
You never know what you have
'Till it's almost gone
(Chorus)
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ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT [2:29] | [ clip ]
(Chorus)
Is there a place we can stay
For a while
Is there a place away from it all
Where we can go
For a while
Is this a hunger or a plea
Or just a call to up and leave
As our tempers race to ask
What is real
And while the opositon stands
With thier feet stuck in the sand
We are planning out our flight
Cutting down the homeward path
Is there a place we can stay
For a while
Rocket from the crypt
Living with the dead
Our heads are burning fire
And our feet are made of lead
Liken to scar
And bent all out of shape
The sky is burning down
Onto a frozen landscape
(Chorus)
I've been down so long
I don't even know my name
I been looking for a way
to get out of this place
Contradiction and lies
Burn the best of tries
We're going NOWHERE
(Chorus)
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HIGHWAY ONE [3:15] | [ clip ]
It's been a little while
Since you flashed that California smile
It's been some time
Since you touched that telephone dial
I got your letter
It would've been better to call
But I know it's not your style
Do you still drive up Highway One
Going way too fast / Racing with the sun
Do you still sing that same old song
Forget the past/ just move on
It's been too much time/ to be without
You're still on my mind
Last night I dreamed/ that you came back
I couldn't speak
I sent your letter
It might've been better to call
But you know I just a child
Do you still drive up Highway One
Going way too fast/ Racing with the sun
Do you still sing that same old song
Forget the past/ just move on
just move on
just move on
Do you still drive up Highway One
Going way too fast/ Racing with the sun
ON THE OUTSIDE [2:59] | [ clip ]
Talking and trying
Except when you're crying
I'm weak when it comes to you
You're open and honest
I know there's no contest
I'm one of the chosen few
On the outside
Some people are laughing
My head's sorta half in
You're pouring out things you think
I'm pulling my hair out
To figure it all out
Come on be with me
On the outside
Out of our minds
Stabbing with rubber knives
I don't like how it feels
On the outside
I want what I want
Right when I want it
I grab it and say "good luck"
I don't wanna hurt you
I consider your virtues
I don't want to find you stuck
On the outside
On the outside
I'm stuck on the outside
On the outside
Stuck on the outside
On the outside
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Cindy Wasserman - vocal
Frank Lee Drennen - vocal, guitar, electric mandolin
David J. Carpenter - bass
Bryan Head - drums
with: Duane Jarvis - lead guitar
Kevin Jarvis - tambourines
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Burning House of Love Lyrics
Artist(Band):X
(Cervenka, Doe)
Drive by my house late at night,
you can see it from the freeway above,
No silhouette, but a light left on,
burnin' there for love, burnin' there for love.
Smoke is risin' from the black,
comin' out my back door.
I'm inside, sound asleep, a cigarette on the floor,
burnin' there for love, burnin' there for love.
Well, I can still remember a couple of years ago,
when the smoke and flame from our name,
was a burnin' house of love, burnin' house of love.
a burnin' house of love...
Burnin' house of love, burnin' house of love.
The rusty nail over our front door,
is where I hung our tears in the rain.
I threw that horseshoe into the weeds,
I seen what love can bring, I seen what love can
bring.
Now you're in your bed and I'm in mine,
on either side of town;
I think I might take a little ride,
and burn your love house down,
like a burnin' house of love, a burnin' house of love.
Burnin' house of love.
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Beautiful review on All Music Guide of Mark Olson's new album SALVATIONS BLUES which Cindy Wasserman from Dead Rock West sings on...
WOW.
All Music Guide reviewer Thom Jurek nailed this one on the head. Enjoy.
--HackTone
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"It seems odd that Salvation Blues is Mark Olson's first true solo recording. After his tenure with the Jayhawks, Olson left the band to spend more time in Joshua Tree with his then-wife, fellow singer/songwriter Victoria Williams. Olson released a quartet of recordings with the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers (aka the Creekdippers), always with Williams either sharing the billing or in the band. Olson and Williams divorced in February of 2006, and he lost the home he built in Joshua Tree as a result. He took off on a solo tour of Europe where the sketches for a number of the songs on Salvation Blues were written. Produced by Ben Vaughn and released on the aesthetically brilliant HackTone label, the CD contains 11 songs; the first edition of the CD comes in a small, book-shaped digipack with slipcover and notes, lyrics, and photographs by Ingunn Ringvold and Krissie Gregory. Former bandmate Gary Louris co-wrote "Poor Michael's Boat" and "National Express," and Williams co-wrote "Winter Song." Sonically, Salvation Blues is pristine if simple. Vaughn keeps things uncluttered and clean, allowing just enough of a mix for Olson's beautifully impure voice to rise to the top unfettered. Musically, while Olson's been following his muse -- that weds country-rock, folk, and other American roots forms -- since the very beginning of his long career, there are few surprises in composition. His sidemen on this session include the great, undercelebrated guitarist Tony Gilkyson, pedal steel and dobro boss Greg Leisz, bassist David J. Carpenter, Michele Gazich on violin, Zac Rae on keyboards, drummer Kevin Jarvis, with Ringvold playing acoustic guitar and Louris and Cindy Wasserman contributing backing vocals.
Ultimately, it comes down to the songs, though. And Mark Olson has them here in spades. with the presentation being so utterly simple, a lot of weight rests not only on the singer, but on the lyrics and melody. And Olson delivers, though the often shining optimism of his offerings has been tempered in places by grief, loss, and the workaday living of everyday life that blends dream and reality as time rushes forward; still he champions humble human nobility in choosing life over death each and every morning. It's a choice for Olson's protagonists, and it needs to be made each and every day without forgetting -- to forget is to choose one of them anyway. "My Carol" opens the set brightly enough. It's a country waltz that could have been written by the Bob Dylan who gave us the words to "Love Minus Zero/No Limit": "I have come to fetch my Carol/I have wandered in the muck/Dirty sheets outside the windows/Lies that poor folks never tell rich ones/Louder still is the sound of love....I know the beauty of her song/The blood of priests runs in her veins...My love for her is a speckled bird/An animal bleeding in the snow/Slink back under the fallen step/Of black rites and crooked sticks/Unforeseen victims of modern sin/I walk the dark rain and then no more/Daylight rings the bells of joy." The guitars entwine and ring gentle together, the beat slips and shimmers, and Olson delivers his words so easily, as if his observations were plainly seen by everyone -- yet held in secret.
On the very next cut, "Clinton Bridge," that optimism gets pushed further, though it takes into account the weight of the decision. A lone acoustic guitar acts as the spine for his vocal before the band enters. While they shore up the body of the tune: "I woke before the sun/Which is the way between the heart and the soul/You spoke with my words/Tangled up here inside/Some people came here to die/We came here to live..." Gazich's violin takes the instrumental break and brings the tune to near soaring levels, but the singer is repeating that refrain for a reason, it's conviction tested by tragedy. The gorgeous harmonies of the Jayhawks are brought to mind on "Poor Michael's Boat," as Olson and Gary Louris sound together on the refrains. Their voices seem earthy and timeless, and the track shuffles with fine B-3 playing and Greg Leisz on mandolin. It's a bittersweet tune that chooses trust in very doubtful circumstances. There are deep overtones to both "National Express" and "Winter Song," written with Williams. Both are love songs, but the latter, a dobro-fueled country two-stepper is heartbreaking: with the sliding six string and Olson's acoustic keeping time with the snare, he sings: "I remember our winter song/Slipping on a frozen lake/There I miss you when you're gone/Oh this winter song/Another cup of brutal wine/Dreams that once seemed so sweet/Are silent empty streets....." The title track is a killer country rocker, done mid-tempo with edgy Telecasters a Hammond B-3, acoustic six-strings, mandolin, and popping snare, whispering hi hat and kick drum. Olson sings of a truth so profound and glittering in the ashes, we almost dare not think of it: "There's such joy and sweet moments/To be found in this world/We know they'll come to an end/Just how makes our hearts hurt/Salvation blues and these blues will help us all/No light like your light/until we do something good..." The guitar solo bites down with clipped, short phrases, reminding the listener of the lyric and sending her back into a reverie of the very moments Olson sings of. The set closes with "My One Book Philosophy," another song steeped in the kind of simple man's Either/Or that Soren Kierkegaard had to nearly sweat blood to write. Olson doesn't need the rhetoric; he has the life experience that proves the mettle. Accompanying himself on the Wurlitzer, he takes it out in a nearly mournful whisper that acknowledges the previous; it's sweet memory disguised as a judge and jury; a ballad that covers a life sentence, but there's no bitterness, only regret, as much by the coming apart of dreams as by remembering them. It's a melancholy ending to an utterly moving, and deeply poetic recording that finally brings Olson out from the comfortable shadows, first as a member of the Jayhawks, and then as part of the husband-and-wife team that were at the heart of the Creekdippers. Salvation Blues is the kind of contemporary singer/songwriter record that we need more of: poetry as part and parcel of life itself, captured in a music so utterly simple and convincing, it is almost impossible to separate it from the artist who made it -- except that it recalls our own experiences so closely in places we have no choice but to give thanks to the man who exposed our inner selves even as he exposes his own. Salvation Blues is stripped down, modern desert country music at its very best."
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It's gift giving time!
author: Gene SturgesPut this CD in everyone's xmas stocking this year.Dig that discount for buying multiple copies! I saw them w/ John Doe and they blew me away and I have been listening to their CD daily ever since. Great band!
CINDY IS HOT
author: JacobWhat more do I need to say? The voices, the music, the songs.
I am on my second copy.
author: SquaretumbleweedThis CD has all the elements that make the California sound so colorful artfully reduced to the backroom ambience of a clandestine LA bar. With this CD, Dead Rock West has created the newest pinpoint on the timeline of all the great bands to emerge from the Los Angeles scene before them.
Jangling guitars+great singing+smokin' songs=Dead Rock West
author: Silver LakerI CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO THIS CD!! IF all bands were this good the record industry wouldn't be on the skids.