JON POUSETTE-DART
''SAMPLE THIS''
APRIL 30 2002
47:16
1/Your Love Is All I Need
Jon Pousette-Dart/3:07
2/Truckstop Girl
Lowell George/4:05
3/Look What Love Has Done
Jon Pousette-Dart/2:59
4/Even Dirty Old Men Need Lovin'
Danny Adler/3:49
5/Amnesia (Revisited)
Jon Pousette-Dart/4:15
6/1000 Miles from You
Jon Pousette-Dart/3:28
7/Roll Um Easy
Lowell George/3:06
8/Sample This
Jon Pousette-Dart/5:17
9/I Like Your Dimensions
Jon Pousette-Dart/5:08
10/This Heart of Mine
Jon Pousette-Dart/3:26
11/Tug of War
Jon Pousette-Dart/4:01
12/I Want You to Want Me
Rick Nielsen/4:35
Peter Basil /Percussion
Janice Dempsey /Vocals
Charlie Giordano /Concertina
Peter Henderson /Harmonica
Donna Kelly /Drums
Jon Pousette-Dart /Guitars, Vocals
Paul Socolow /Bass
Kenny White /Keyboards, Organ
BIOGRAPHY
by Erik Hage
Seventies soft rockers the Pousette-Dart Band mined the same musical territory as acts like the Eagles, James Taylor, and Orleans, but despite arena tours and major-label releases they were unable to gain the same widespread audience as those groups. During the second half of the '70s, the Pousette-Dart Band made four albums for Capitol Records and then called it quits. (Nashville veteran Norbert Putnam produced three of the albums.)
Singer/guitarist John Pousette-Dart founded and fronted the group. At 13, he had played in a band with Soupy Sales' kids Tony and Hunt Sales, who years later would become members of David Bowie's Tin Machine. the Pousette-Dart Band started out as an acoustic combo (with John Troy and John Curtis) on the Northeastern coffeehouse circuit. Manager Don Law discovered them opening for John Hammond on Nantucket. In 1974, now a full-fledged rock band, they signed a multi-album deal with Capitol Records. The group toured incessantly throughout the 1970s, drawing on pop, folk, country, and blues styles. In 1980, however, they found themselves without a record deal and splintered. John Pousette-Dart returned with the album Ready to Fly in 1998. He followed that with Sample This in 2002.
REVIEW
by Stewart Mason
The press kit for Jon Pousette-Dart's second comeback album claims that the title track refers to the over-processed, sample-heavy sound of contemporary pop music, to which this stripped-down album stands in opposition. One could also argue that the loose, live-in-the-studio feel of this album is possibly due to budget constraints, but that's a bit unkind; actually, the laid-back, intimate, and live feel of Sample This is an enormous improvement over the ultra-slick, note-perfect and basically vacuous albums that the Jon Pousette-Dart Band recorded in the soft rock '70s. At that time, songs like the good-timey "Look What Love Has Done" would have its bongos/acoustic guitar/blues harmonica groove gunked over with a dozen superstar session musicians who added a lot to the recording budget, but little to the music. The set list also includes a few covers, from a swell take on Little Feat's "Roll Um Easy," to a surprisingly effective, bluesy take on Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me." Unpretentious and agreeably mellow, Sample This could well be Jon Pousette-Dart's best work yet.
''SAMPLE THIS''
APRIL 30 2002
47:16
1/Your Love Is All I Need
Jon Pousette-Dart/3:07
2/Truckstop Girl
Lowell George/4:05
3/Look What Love Has Done
Jon Pousette-Dart/2:59
4/Even Dirty Old Men Need Lovin'
Danny Adler/3:49
5/Amnesia (Revisited)
Jon Pousette-Dart/4:15
6/1000 Miles from You
Jon Pousette-Dart/3:28
7/Roll Um Easy
Lowell George/3:06
8/Sample This
Jon Pousette-Dart/5:17
9/I Like Your Dimensions
Jon Pousette-Dart/5:08
10/This Heart of Mine
Jon Pousette-Dart/3:26
11/Tug of War
Jon Pousette-Dart/4:01
12/I Want You to Want Me
Rick Nielsen/4:35
Peter Basil /Percussion
Janice Dempsey /Vocals
Charlie Giordano /Concertina
Peter Henderson /Harmonica
Donna Kelly /Drums
Jon Pousette-Dart /Guitars, Vocals
Paul Socolow /Bass
Kenny White /Keyboards, Organ
BIOGRAPHY
by Erik Hage
Seventies soft rockers the Pousette-Dart Band mined the same musical territory as acts like the Eagles, James Taylor, and Orleans, but despite arena tours and major-label releases they were unable to gain the same widespread audience as those groups. During the second half of the '70s, the Pousette-Dart Band made four albums for Capitol Records and then called it quits. (Nashville veteran Norbert Putnam produced three of the albums.)
Singer/guitarist John Pousette-Dart founded and fronted the group. At 13, he had played in a band with Soupy Sales' kids Tony and Hunt Sales, who years later would become members of David Bowie's Tin Machine. the Pousette-Dart Band started out as an acoustic combo (with John Troy and John Curtis) on the Northeastern coffeehouse circuit. Manager Don Law discovered them opening for John Hammond on Nantucket. In 1974, now a full-fledged rock band, they signed a multi-album deal with Capitol Records. The group toured incessantly throughout the 1970s, drawing on pop, folk, country, and blues styles. In 1980, however, they found themselves without a record deal and splintered. John Pousette-Dart returned with the album Ready to Fly in 1998. He followed that with Sample This in 2002.
REVIEW
by Stewart Mason
The press kit for Jon Pousette-Dart's second comeback album claims that the title track refers to the over-processed, sample-heavy sound of contemporary pop music, to which this stripped-down album stands in opposition. One could also argue that the loose, live-in-the-studio feel of this album is possibly due to budget constraints, but that's a bit unkind; actually, the laid-back, intimate, and live feel of Sample This is an enormous improvement over the ultra-slick, note-perfect and basically vacuous albums that the Jon Pousette-Dart Band recorded in the soft rock '70s. At that time, songs like the good-timey "Look What Love Has Done" would have its bongos/acoustic guitar/blues harmonica groove gunked over with a dozen superstar session musicians who added a lot to the recording budget, but little to the music. The set list also includes a few covers, from a swell take on Little Feat's "Roll Um Easy," to a surprisingly effective, bluesy take on Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me." Unpretentious and agreeably mellow, Sample This could well be Jon Pousette-Dart's best work yet.
1 comment :
I always thought that Jon PD would have been the perfect guy to replace Lowell George in Little Feat...
I listened to PDB III again last night, what a fabulous band and album.
Thanx for sharing these albums Davi!
Al
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