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Barefoot |
In the fall of 1990
David was working as a bell hop at Assembly Inn, an
old stone hotel in Montreat, NC. It was sort of an
extension of a summer job that he had taken following
college graduation. Working toward the goal of playing
music full-time, he spent his days moving chairs around
and carrying stuff from room to room, and spent as
many nights as possible playing music in local restaurants
and bars. Most of the songs he played were covers,
but he threw in some original material, and when his
friend Bill Graham suggested that he put a tape together,
David was excited about the idea...
Available on cassette only.
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...but they had no recording equipment and no money
to buy studio time, so David saved up his tips and
forty dollar performance fees until he could buy a
four-track cassette recorder. They set it up in Bill's
efficiency apartment behind a comic book store on
Merrimon Ave. in Asheville and started working on
laying some songs down. Bill plays bass on several
songs, and their friend Patrick Miller stopped by
to put down an electric guitar part on one, but mostly
this is Dave and his guitar.
There were occasional
interruptions when they ran out of macaroni &
cheese, or Bill's cat Boog needed to be fed, or they
had to change the pot in the corner that caught the
water from the leaky roof, but finally they put together
this recording. This is vintage David, roughly recorded
and with a young voice, but there are still folks
who claim that it is their favorite of his recordings.
Since its release in early 1991 one dollar from the
sale of each copy of Barefoot has gone to Habitat
for Humanity, an international non-profit organization
building houses in partnership with people in need.
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Guest Artists:
Bill Graham II, bass
Patrick Miller , electric guitar
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And by
the way...
... Barefoot is
the only record anywhere on which you can hear me
play a solo. On the song Barefoot for Now,
I play lead acoustic over my own rhythm track. Barefoot
for Now, incidentally, was named when we recorded
the song and Bill asked me what to write on the tape
as the title. I said "Just call it Barefoot for
now," and he did.
- David
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