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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Current mood:  focused Category: Music
On August 20, David Newbould will be taping a performance at ME Sound Studios (2130 S. Congress Ave, 1 block north of Oltorf) for a live CD/DVD package. It is a private (ie. PUBLIC!) party, complete with studio decoration and full bar.
Please pass the word on now, and keep the date free on your calendar. We would love everyone we know to be part of this event, as it promises to be part of a night of Austin music history.
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Official Press Release:
David Newbould Assembles All-Star Line-up For Live Film Event
Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter David Newbould has assembled an all-star lineup of accomplished musicians who have shared the stage with stars such as Merle Haggard, Bob Dylan, and Van Morrison for a live performance to be video-taped in Austin, TX on August 20, 2008.
Newbould, who has had many of his songs appear on major network TV shows such as "Criminal Minds" (CBS), "Dawson's Creek" (WB), and "Monarch Cove" (Lifetime) will be joined on stage by veteran players Redd Volkaert (Merle Haggard), Cindy Cashdollar (Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Asleep At The Wheel), Papa Mali (Ruthie Foster, Miss Lavelle White, the Killer Bees) Wendy Colonna, Rachel Loy, Beth Garner, Will Taylor, Danny Levin, and several others.
Cindy Cashdollar said "The first time I heard David perform his songs, I knew I was hearing something very unique and got hooked immediately. I think it takes a lot for an artist to stand out in a music-oriented city like Austin, let alone a national industry overflowing with a well-worn path of songwriters."
When asked to describe his sound, Newbould said "I like to think of my music being folk, which I describe as writing about people and the world around you." But according the Amarillo Star, "To make things easy, you could call David Newbould's music Americana. But in reality, his tunes reach across genre lines, everything from country and folk to rock and pop."
METV will be taping the performance for a live DVD/CD package. The show will include songs from David's recorded catalogue, as well as some new material. David's entire catalogue is currently available at live shows, iTunes, and all major online music retailers.
While this project is destined to be a major benchmark in David's career, it is only part of a busy 2008 for the Canadian singer-songwriter. He has spent time in Nashville, co-writing with established writers such as Jesse Terry (Masville Publishing), Rachel Loy, and Thad Beatty (Sugarland guitarist). Following his live taping, he will embark on his second of two extensive tours for the year. So far in 2008 he has visited New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio, Canada, and made several trips to west Texas.
The year's second half will see him in these terrains, and also in the west coast. He has become a favored regular singer for Will Taylor And Strings Attached, and performs weekend concert series with them whenever possible. As time permits he will continue to record songs written in the year and a half since 2007's Big Red Sun, a process which has already begun with Austin, Texas producer Darwin Smith (David Baerwald, Will Sexton, Aimee Bobruck).
"David Newbould is a world class songwriter." - Sony Music
"No matter how he does it, David Newbould deserves to be heard and Big Red Sun deserves everyone's undivided attention..." - EvolutionOfMedia.com
"Possessing all the ingredients to be River City's next "It Boy"…introspective folk and stout country rock. There's a huge market for this…" - Jim Caligiuri, Austin Chronicle
Press Contact and Media Inquiries: Christine Thompson, christine@amfmstudios.com (512) 636-4388
For updates, tour dates, and more information on David Newbould, please visit www.davidnewbould.com.
----------------------------Performing Songwriter - July/August 2008 Issue:
David Newbould
Big Red Sun
Featured Download: "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" MP3
If Dan Wilson and Pete Yorn had a folkier kid brother, he'd be David Newbould. Wielding a voice as wearily distinctive as Shawn Mullins, Newbould sings every word with a dusty radiance. Though his adeptness with hazy sketches predominates, Newbould blazes brightest when blurring alternate hues of exhaustion and exuberance—a talent especially evident on "Empty Arms" (whose stretched-out phrases evoke Wilson's trademark vocal elasticity), the graceful "Family Man" and rollicking stomper "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do," fueled by Cindy Cashdollar's dobro adrenaline rush. When he sings "I'd rather be a man with a broken dream / than one who never had one" under the title track's simmering desert sheen, he's not kidding. —G. Grande.
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Amarillo Globe-News, July 18, 2008
Artist's Music Crosses Genre Lines
To make things easy, you could call David Newbould's music Americana. But in reality, his tunes reach across genre lines, everything from country and folk to rock and pop.
The Canadian-born artist grew up with a love for the guitar, becoming a fan of metal and '70s rock. Then he got into Neil Young, the artist that Newbould said first changed his outlook on music.
"That's when I realized the importance of the song and playing guitar in the parameter of the song," he said.
Newbould moved from Toronto to New York in the mid-'90s, where he would spend about seven years honing his craft and developing a fan base. Then in 2002, he left the Big Apple for Austin.
"I've enjoyed living here a lot and music wise, it's had its ups and downs," he said.
Newbould said his ideas of what Austin was musically were off. He said he learned the city has an insulated music culture, one where artists can have fame and success and never leave the city.
Newbould compared that insulation to the Canadian music scene, which was a reason he left. So, he's worked to build a regional fan base with hopes of moving on to a national scene.
Newbould has made an effort to perform in West Texas, the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, which, along with just living in Texas, has had an impact on his music.
"That terrain really does something to music; it's bizarre," he said. "It's such a visual and the way it feels makes such an impression you can't help but have this Southern, Texan tilt to your music after a while.
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Newbould is currently touring on his latest release, "Big Red Sun." The album features many of Austin's music legends, including Redd Volkaert and Cindy Cashdollar.
Newbould will perform today at Butler's Martini Lounge. His current tour features him and his bass player.
"(At live shows) you really weed out the people who are there to listen to music and find something they like as opposed to the people who are kind of there to hang out at the bar," he said.
"Really, mostly it's about me singing my songs to people that want to hear them."
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"Go! - Lubbock's Weekly Entertainment Guide" - July 10, 2008
Folk Man: You've heard his songs on 'Dawson's Creek'; now hear him in Lubbock
July 10, 2008
The time he spent carving out his identity, this singer songwriter created a nice following of loyal fans.
Born and raised in Canada, David Newbould, whose accent has no trace back to our Northern neighbor, describes his music revolution coming later in life.
"After I decided I wasn't going to be a guitar hero like I wanted, to be like Neil Young. I realized I needed to start writing songs," he said.
"Once I found it, I knew this was for me, and now my craft is constantly evolving."
Newbould said he found his identity and passion for music when he was playing the drums at age 11.
"By the time I turned 15, it was all I cared about," he said.
Leaving his home country to pursue his dream in America, Newbould found a place, New York City.
He had created a loyal fan following performing as a solo artist as well as with a band, and then he relocated to the Lone Star State's music capitol, Austin.
When asked how he describes his music, Newbould said it was difficult to answer.
"For many years I have been trying to figure it out, and how to describe my music," he said. "It is almost asking people to describe themselves. It is difficult. But I like to think of my music being folk, which I describe as writing about people and the world around you."
When Newbould talks about his writing, he said the first five or six years he put a lot of work into it.
"After applying myself and where I was blocking off three to five hours a day to write, it made it comfortable for me," he said. "You try so hard to sound like your heros, but eventually you come out with your own sound."
His own sound has appeared on five network TV shows and DVDs to date, including "Dawson's Creek," Paramount's "Joan of Arcadia," Fox's "Party of Five," CBS "Threshold" and "Lifetime's "Monarch Cove."
Newbould said he feels a level of success for his music to be a part of a network show.
"It is not what I was striving for," he said, modestly. "I am more satisfied to perform a good show and people like it. That is what I do it for."
Newbould said his steady climb to stardom was by making the best music he can and by reaching as many people.
"It really is what you make of it."
* When: 10 p.m. Friday.
* Where: Gas Light, 5212 57th St.
* Cover charge: Free.
* Information: 785-1720.
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