As is often the case with artists I grow to collect obsessively, I first heard the music of David Mead when a promo of his sophomore album, 1999's Mine and Yours, came across my desk when I was an A&E writer for a small Midwestern daily newspaper. It was produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, and given my love of that band's first two albums, I decided it was worth a listen. From t...
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Gentle-rock softy crafts a pop-standards beauty for the Paul Anka lover in your home.The tendency among rock fans might be to dismiss David Mead as a lightweight on his new album, not with respect to his obvious prodigious ability, but for the softness of his music. One can imagine, for instance, the indie-rock community disparaging Mead's winsome piano-and-acoustic-guitar ballads as too precio...
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David Mead released his first CD in 1999, which I bought based on a rave review in the newspaper (a practice I try to avoid, now that sound samples are around). He has one of the most striking voices that I've heard in pop music, besides being an excellent songwriter, decent guitarist and..these days, also a record reviewer for PASTE magazine (check out Paste #34 for his savaging of the latest ...
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The first and only time I had seen David live, I was one of maybe 10 people in the audience. It was easy to see, even with so few people in the crowd, that David Mead was born to play in front of music lovers. He engaged the small gathering of folks into the night with his guitar, piano, and ukulele. The highlight of the night was when he serenaded the audience with a rendition of "Just Like...
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I can't remember where I first came across the musical stylings of David Mead, but he really sticks out to me as one of those guys that you wonder why he is not a big name in the music world. If you haven't heard of him, I suggest finding a copy of "Indiana", which doesn't have a bad track on it. My favorite cut from that album is the title track, which does a great job of conveying what it m...
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Well in advance of his new record, Almost and Always, which will be released in August, David Mead is offering the song "Blackberry Winters," which you can find below. It's a lovely folk tune that marks the first new material from Mead in over three years since his acclaimed Tangerine album. The gentle, melancholy collection was affected, in part, by Mead's own struggles, which he details:“I ha.
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As is often the case with artists I grow to collect obsessively, I first heard the music of David Mead when a promo of his sophomore album, 1999's Mine and Yours, came across my desk when I was an A&E writer for a small Midwestern daily newspaper. It was produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, and given my love of that band's first two albums, I decided it was worth a listen. From t...
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| 2 Little Boats |
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| 3 Blackberry Winters |
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| 4 Mojave Phone Booth |
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| 5 Twenty Girls Ago |
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