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fave it Americana | Roots Rock
12 tracks | 41 minutes
Released Sep 2003
on Crooked Roads
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:24 The Wait lyrics BUY MP3 03:24 The Wait lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:24 The Wait
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:04 All of Life's Loneliness lyrics BUY MP3 04:04 All of Life's Loneliness lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:04 All of Life's Loneliness
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:45 I'd Rather Be With Her lyrics BUY MP3 03:45 I'd Rather Be With Her lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:45 I'd Rather Be With Her
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 Along the Way lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 Along the Way lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 Along the Way
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:30 Learn to See lyrics BUY MP3 04:30 Learn to See lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:30 Learn to See
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:22 What the Hell lyrics BUY MP3 02:22 What the Hell lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:22 What the Hell
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:46 Sorry lyrics BUY MP3 03:46 Sorry lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:46 Sorry
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:27 Please Forgive Me lyrics BUY MP3 02:27 Please Forgive Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:27 Please Forgive Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:08 So Many Times lyrics BUY MP3 05:08 So Many Times lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:08 So Many Times
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:58 Without You lyrics BUY MP3 02:58 Without You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:58 Without You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:36 Baby, Just Forget lyrics BUY MP3 01:36 Baby, Just Forget lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:36 Baby, Just Forget
"Calls to mind Rick Danko of The Band." --Popmatters.com
Bio / Background
"Calls to mind Rick Danko of The Band... The listener can practically hear Dingman's heart breaking."
—Pop Matters
"Dingman cites a number of influences from Dylan to the Stones to Merle, but the ones who seem to influence his music the most are Gram Parsons and Nick Drake, arguably two of the loneliest artists ever. Dingman's songs have solitary written all over them. While beautiful melodies keep depression at bay..."
—Stylus Magazine
"Will surely become a major player in the roots music arena.”
--RootsMusicReport
"There's more than a bit of the ol' Uncle Tupelo chunk to the chords, riffs that are thick enough to grill... One hell of a throwback."
--Aiding and Abetting
SONGWRITER CHRIS DINGMAN'S CROOKED ROAD
Chris Dingman, Crooked Roads' singer and songwriter, grew up in Lyme, a small town in the New Hampshire countryside, population 1,000.
When he wasn't wandering the woods or drawing by himself, he was playing on the village common with the neighborhood kids.
↓ more ↓"We rode our bikes around a lot," says Dingman, "or we played war or football. Those were dangerous times, though. You had to be careful you didn't run into that flagpole in the middle of the common."
"We got one TV station--CBS," Dingman recalls. "And I don't remember any radio." For the time being, then, Dingman remained isolated from all the music that would later influence him.
All, that is, except The Beatles.
Almost on the day he was born, in 1964, The Beatles' dominance of the pop charts peaked. That week, The Beatles held the first five slots on the Top 100--something no other group's done. To Dingman, this is more than coincidence.
"My family wasn't religious. And I wasn't exposed to any mystical ideas, I don't think. But when I heard my mom's Beatles' records, I remember thinking if there is a God, He's coming through these guys."
Dingman's father was a musician and as a boy, Dingman would pick out melodies on the family piano. But it wasn't until he left home that he picked up a guitar. "I first heard Dylan's Freewheelin' the summer after I turned 21," says Dingman. "There was something ghostly in his singing. It seemed off-hand but incredibly tender. And he made you feel like you could do it too."
That summer Dingman also read D.H. Lawrence and Nietzsche. "Writers that stir up your whole body, not just your mind," according to Dingman. "That's around when REM's Murmur came out and that record turned me on too. I was in college at the time, but the summer I heard Freewheelin' made school seem beside the point."
Dingman eventually wound up in California, where he thought of himself more as a writer than a songwriter. "I think the effect that music had on me was so huge, that I didn't dare approach it. Or only very slowly. I could allow myself to write, but not songs. Not yet."
He wrote poetry instead, and filled thousands of pages of journals. He also wrote screenplays and optioned one to Warner Bros. After that he tried hard to keep being a screenwriter and to keep music on the side.
It didn't work.
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