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David Bromberg Quintet
With his 1971 self-titled Columbia Records release, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter David Bromberg emerged as a wunderkind of American roots music. The disc’s blend of traditional and original material, virtuosic musicianship and iconic cover art trumpeted the arrival of a new artist of audacious vision. Over the course of seven more albums for Columbia & Fantasy Records and through associations with Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker, John Hartford, George Harrison, the Grateful Dead, Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt, Bromberg’s reputation and following grew exponentially. However, the incessant demands of touring finally brought the recordings and shows to an end in the early 1980s.
A twenty-two-year drought ended in 2006 with the release of the Grammy-nominated solo effort Try Me One More Time. In 2011 David followed up with Use Me, a typically unorthodox Bromberg-ian effort, partnering him with Linda Ronstadt, Vince Gill, Los Lobos, Dr. John, Keb’ Mo, John Hiatt, Levon Helm and others as David asked them to either write or choose songs and then produce him performing them.
Two more albums emerged from 2013 to 2017, Only
Slightly Mad and The Blues the Whole Blues and
Nothing But the Blues, both produced by 3 x Grammy winner Larry Campbell.
Recorded at Levon Helm’s Barn, Only
Slightly Mad brought the band back to David’s eclectic ‘kitchen
sink’ musical philosophy, while The Whole Blues proved
Texas fiddler Johnny Gimbel’s theory that: “There are only two songs—‘The Star-Spangled
Banner’ and the blues.” The band skipped the ‘Banner’ and headed straight for
the blues, winning the 2017 Downbeat Critic’s Poll for Best Blues
Album. With David’s band settling into its current
lineup: Mark Cosgrove (guitar, mandolin,
vocals), Nate Grower (fiddle,
mandolin, guitar, vocals), Josh Kanusky (drums, vocals) and newest
member, Suavek Zaniesienko (bass, vocals), they entered the
studio in mid-2019 for a different approach to record-making. The resulting
album, Big Road, gives Bromberg fans the most
intimate portrait to date of David and his band, musically and visually.
Featuring twelve new recordings, five hi-def performance videos and a
mini-documentary detailing the album’s creation, the content rich album was
released on Compass/Red House Records as a CD/DVD combo pack and gatefold vinyl
album. Unfortunately COVID put an end to all live shows until fall 2021, which
is where David is poised to write his next chapter.
The High and Wides
The High & Wides were formed in 2015, and have roots both in Baltimore and the rural Delmarva peninsula. They draw on a shared background playing straight ahead bluegrass, but weave in influences from new wave to old time to make music that evokes the era before country, bluegrass, rockabilly, western swing, and rock'n'roll broke off into separate and strictly defined genres. The band's music imagines an alternate timeline - if instead of the electric-guitar and drums driven band format that took off in the 50s, the stringband lineup had dominated across genres of popular music in the 20th century, what would be happening now?
They have released two full-length albums of original music, 2018's "Lifted" and 2019's "Seven True Stories". In March 2022 they released their first album of covers, "Blood", which pays tribute to exemplars of the two-part "brother duet" singing style that first inspired the formation of the band.
Members are Marc Dykeman (guitar, vocals), Sam Guthridge (banjo, mandolin, vocals), Nate Grower (fiddle), and Mike Buccino (bass).
Event Location
The Hamilton Live
600 14th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20005
Talent
David Bromberg Quintet
The High and Wides