Dan Montgomery
cast iron songs & torch ballads
"If Charles Bukowski could
have carried a tune, he might have sounded like Dan Montgomery." - Andria
Lisle, Memphis Flyer
Philadelphia born, South Jersey raised & Memphis transplant
of the past six years, Dan Montgomery's ability to spot people you'd
never notice and turn them into characters you can't resist is uncanny.
Montgomery's latest release Rosetta, please(a love story) on
the Makeshift Music label is a nine song story of two people.
One fresh out of jail. One walking the streets, working the streets.
What tears them apart? What keeps them together? Musically,
the golden age of American Studios was the template aspired to; big
bold rocking songs, soul ballads with electric sitars, heart wrenching
love songs. This wide sonic pallet is unified by the storyline
that runs through the entire record. The album includes the
endearing "Favorite Color" which last year went to Number
2 on Texas Radio 94.7 in Corpus Christi, TX.
Dan's new ensemble The Dan Montgomery Three consists
of Dan on guitar, harp &vocals, Robert
Mache(ex Steve Wynn, Giant
Sand, Mumps, Continental Drifters)
on electric guitar & mandolin plus Andrew Simons on
upright bass & vocals. Preparing for a new record, the DM3 has
been performing mostly new songs. The results are a batch of
quietly intense character studies about jazz bassists, birds, the
1964 World's Fair, social anxiety, ghosts and more . According
to Montgomery; "It's the first time in almost two years
since the recording, release and extensive touring for the (highly
acclaimed) Rosetta, please(a love story) that I could really just
sit still and write". So far the songs have been easily as well
received as the old favorites.
Dan's CD Rosetta, please(a love story)was
voted one of the "Best CDs of 2006" in
the Philadelphia Inquirer and No
Depression called it "An Astonishingly Good Album"!
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Favorite
Color
Spinning My Wheels
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