ARTIST: David Bromberg
TITLE: Try Me One More Time
LABEL: Appleseed
GENRE: Acoustic
PLAYTIME: 47:57 min
SIZE: 54,6 MB
RIP DATE: Mar-18-2007
Track List
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01. Try Me One More Time 03:17
02. Kind Hearted Woman 03:48
03. Big Road 02:53
04. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A 04:30
Train To Cry
05. Buck Dancer's Choice 01:54
06. I Belong To The Band 03:36
07. Moonshiner 01:33
08. Shake Sugaree 03:11
09. Hey Bub! 01:38
10. Love Changing Blues 03:11
11. When First Unto This Country 03:03
12. Levee Camp Moan 02:18
13. Trying To Get Home 04:01
14. East Virginia 03:48
15. Windin' Boy 03:19
16. Lonesome Roving Wolves 01:57
Release Notes
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Three long-awaited words: David Bromberg's back!
Roots music fans will rejoice in the release of "Try Me One More
Time," the first new CD in 17 years by guitarist/vocalist David
Bromberg, a master practitioner of folk, blues, bluegrass and
other musical genres. This new recording is undiluted David: one
man, one acoustic guitar, and a repertoire of mostly traditional
material performed with the intimate, assured touch of a
musician who has nothing to prove.
Originally a "must-have" session man for everyone from Bob Dylan
to Dion and subsequently a hard-touring bandleader and recording
artist with an enthusiastic following, Bromberg gradually phased
himself out of the continual record-tour-record cycle starting
in 1980. "I got burned out," he reflects. "And I didn't want to
be one of those musicians who ends up `phoning it in.' Music was
too important to me to treat it that way."
So he switched his focus from performing to studying, moving to
Chicago in 1980 to learn violin-making. Based in the Windy City
until 2002, when he moved to Delaware to open a violin shop,
Bromberg has continued to tour periodically, but has mostly
stayed away from recording studios, with 1990's "Sideman
Serenade" his last album until now.
On "Try Me One More Time," Bromberg harkens back to the acoustic
folk and blues music of his early days on the mid-'60s Greenwich
Village folk scene, a period when he guided the blind
gospel-blues singer Reverend Gary Davis to concerts and churches
in exchange for guitar lessons. Bromberg performs two of "the
Rev's" compositions on his new CD - "I Belong to the Band" and
"Trying to Get Home" - as well as songs written by Robert
Johnson, Elizabeth Cotton, Tommy Johnson, Blind Willie McTell,
sometime Bromberg employer Bob Dylan ("It Takes a Lot to Laugh .
. ."), and songs from the traditional realm, including two
exquisitely rendered instrumentals ("Buck Dancer's Choice," "Hey
Bub"). The title track is Bromberg's first recording of a song
he wrote more than 30 years ago.
In liner notes as conversational as his distinctive, low-key
vocals, Bromberg maintains that this CD is the first record he's
made where he "wasn't trying to impress anybody . . . I'm just
doing the tunes." Nonetheless, the outcome can't fail to delight
listeners who appreciate an understated virtuoso playing and
singing the music he loves.