VARIOUS: Raining in the Heartland- The Songs of Peter Dubow

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Raining in the Heartland- The Songs of Peter Dubow

© 2002 Peter Dubow Music

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Tribute to late-great songwriter Peter Dubow.

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Features;
Norm Sancho, Bernie Larsen, Jeff Moore, Jack Butler, John Barnard, Don Heffington, Bob Glaub, John Scott, Jack Tempchin, Dean Smith, Tony Dubovsky, Burt Newman, Merrily

executive produced by Jack Tempchin, Bernie Larsen and Anthony Dubovsky

Produced by Bernie Larsen

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Bernie Larsen at Spinout Studio.

Here you have the music of Peter Dubow, a noted San Diego songwriter who also play keyboards with many of North Country's best-known musicians. This album, a tribute to Peter by his musician friends-just a few of the many people who knew him and loved him-captures the spirit of his work, at once playful and pensive, inteligent, vibrant, funny and poignant. It presents 14 of his songs, chosen from an ample catalogue by the musicians who played with him over the course of a lifetime. it also includes an extremporaneous recording of Peter himself, from the music room, playing and singing one of his last songs, "Raining in the Heartland".

Born in San Diego in 1947, Peter grew up in Oceanside, where from a very early age he took a keen interest in all the burgeoning manifestations/flashes of what we can now see as post-war popular culture (although Peter himself would never have called it that). We're talking incipient television (Dave Garroway and Steve Allen come quickly to mind), comedy (Soupy Sales, Peter Sellars, Beyond the Fridge, Mort Sahl), and every aspect of popular time might well have benn vaudville, now writ large across the entire entertainment panorama of 1950's America-this was Peter's metier. (He once conducted an interview with Cal Worthington of Dodge-sales fame, named the family parakeet "Elvis" in 1956, and appeared briefly in Woody Allen's Bananas.)

However, in an era of "Johnny B. Good," the Beatles and Rolling Stones, it was music that became Peter's primary passion. He started out in Marin County, playing in a group with fellow San Diegan Bob McPharlin. He returned to the San Diego area in teh early 70s and regoined the local music scene, forming bands over the years with some of North Country's leading musicians-Jack Tempchin, John Scott, Jeff Moore, Burt Newman and Jerry McCann. Peter appeared with the Paladins, the Beat Farmers, Rosie Flores, Public Domain, Cry on Cue, and most recently, Rocket Science, a band he formed with Jack Tempchin to feature their own songs. At one point in the arc of a 30-year musical career he backed up Chuck Berry in front of 50,000 fans at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium. But his longtime musical home was the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, where he frequently sat in with visiting bands-including the Wailers, who used his reggae anthem "Where Is Love?" for the lead track on the 1996 album Jah Message.

Peter Dubow passed away in September 1999. He is fondly remembered as an astute musician and man of great integrity, humor and kindness.

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