ARKANSAS DAVE

TRACKLIST 1. Bad at Being Good 2. On My Way 3. Think Too Much 4. Bad Water 5. Chocolate Jesus 6. Squeaky Clean 7. The Wheel 8. Rest Of My Days 9. Jubilee 10. Something for Me 11. Diamonds 12. Hard Times 13. Coming Home OVERVIEW Arkansas-born, Austin-based roots troubadour Arkansas Dave is set to release his self-titled debut album on April 20th (BIG Indie Records) ahead of a UK tour in July including a debut performance at the prestigious Maverick Festival. The album runs the gamut stylistically from southern rock to blues, Americana to rock˜n™roll and as Dave says himself, ša collection of songs that tell my story.› The album was recorded over eight days at Fame Studios with The Swampers, the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section Will McFarlane, Clayton Ivey and Bob Wray, with horn arrangements by Charles Rose and Jim HornžJamie šGypsy› Evans and Arkansas Dave produced the album. Vocals were completed at Arlyn Studios in Austin, TX. Tracks from the forthcoming album were recently released with a cover of the Tom Waits classic šChocolate Jesus› premiering at Glide Magazine, which noted his version as šslow and thick› with šsoulful vocals,› while The Alternate Root premiered the video for šSqueaky Clean.› A multi-instrumentalist, prior to turning to guitar and going solo, Arkansas Dave was the drummer for Guitar Shorty (We The People Tour), The Hard Pans (Jimmy Smith & Claude Bernard) and Mickey White (Townes Van Zandt), Dr. Zog, and was the band leader/drummer for his own group Ouachita. Before moving to Austin, Dave studied taiko in Japan under the direction of Art Lee and the late Daihachi Oguchi Sensei, and performed in the Nagano Prefecture Performing Arts Center. Born and raised in the piney swamps of Camden, Arkansas, he began playing drums at five years old and by 12 was playing guitar every Sunday in church. With a need to chase his dream of music, he played in a series of bands cutting his teeth in dive bars and the best honky tonks in Arkansas and Texas, funding his music with a succession of jobs from busboy to assembly worker. LIVE DATES 6th July: MAVERICK FESTIVAL 7th July: MAVERICK FESTIVAL 13th July: LONDON - Green Note 4th July: PULHAM ST MARY (Norfolk) - The Pennoyer Centre 15th July: DEDHAM (Essex) - Al Festo at The Sun Inn 19th July: BATH - The Chapel Arts Centre 20th July: BIRMINGHAM - International Jazz & Blues Festival 2018 20th June: Bar 3000 Zürich 21st June: Olten 22nd June: Lenk Mittsommerfestival 27th June: Munich Sessions 29th June: Euro Youth -Munich 2nd July: Montreux - Swiss