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to hurricane relief, and download The dB's new recording
of "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted"
The
dB's Online is the only place you can hear
an all new, 2005 studio
recording by The dB's. "World to Cry" is
a Peter Holsapple composition,
recorded January 2005 at Water Music in Hoboken and mixed
by Chris
Stamey at Modern Recording in Chapel Hill. The band and
The dB's Online
generously offer this MP3 for FREE download.
Peter
Holsapple, Will Rigby, Chris Stamey & Gene Holder...
ORIGINAL LINEUP OF THE dB's REUNITE FOR FIRST
SESSIONS
IN MORE THAN 20 YEARS
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Recorded at Water
Music Recorders in Hoboken, NJ, in the first week of January,
their first sessions together in two and a half decades.
George Cowan (Iggy Pop, Natalie Merchant, The Band) engineered
the sessions.
Seven
new originals by Holsapple and Stamey are now being completed.
The band also recorded a Spectoresque version of Motown
classic "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" in
reaction to the tsunami catastrophe, and had some fun with
dB's and other oldies while the tape was rolling. So much
was accomplished in a few days that it was tentatively decided
to record more tracks and complete an album.
This original dB's lineup of native North Carolinians was
part of the vibrant New York music scene in the early eighties.
According to allmusic.com, "The dB's defined the Southern
power pop/jangle pop movement of the early to mid-'80s....
They provided a key link between Big Star and '80s alternative
guitar acts such as R.E.M."
Peter
is based in New Orleans where he performs with his new band,
The Peoples' Revolutionary Army of Saint Bernard; he also
works as a touring musician with Hootie and the Blowfish.
Will lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and
tours and records with Steve Earle and the Dukes. Both
Chris and Gene have active recording and producing
careers, Chris in Chapel Hill and Gene in New York. Chris
has not one but two recent releases (both on Yep
Roc): "Travels in the South" and "A Question
of Temperature", the latter a collaboration with Yo
La Tengo, pianist Tyson Rogers, and Gene Holder.
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