David Munyon Poet Wind

David Munyon is a very complicated guy on the one hand, but an open book on the other. He is on a spiritual track, but not in any New Age way. His music is more than naked, he is more like a raw nerve. But if you wanna hear the real thing that goes right back to the spirit of Woody Guthrie, check out the music of David Munyon. "Code Name: Jumper" is his debut studio album.

David Munyon is a very complicated guy on the one hand, but an open book on the other. He is on a spiritual track, but not in any New Age way. His music is more than naked, he is more like a raw nerve. But if you wanna hear the real thing that goes right back to the spirit of Woody Guthrie, check out the music of David Munyon. David Munyon´s second studio album was released in May `96, a mere 5 years after his debut "Code Name: Jumper". This time his band consisted of Dave Pomery on bass (James McMurtry, Don Williams), Craig Krampf on drums (Melissa Etheridge) and the god-like Al Perkins on guitar, lap-steel and dobro (Emmylou Harris, Stephen Stills, Bob Dylan etc.).

The third Garcia/Grisman album, this one concentrating on the traditional 'folk' song aspect of their repertoire.

About the new project, David told us, "'Workingman's Dead' was released when I was a teenager and was one of my first exposures to country and folk music. I tried to keep my performances in the spirit of the originals as much as possible — not so much re-invention, but simply enjoying those great feelings again from so long ago."

Tribute albums frequently betray their subject, but not this homage to Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears, the country giant’s 1964 salute to Native Americans. A concept album about a discomfiting cause – the US’s treatment of its indigenous people – Tears was a radical statement resisted, to Cash’s fury, by the Nashville establishment. For its 50th anniversary, producer Joe Henry gathers a stellar house band that takes turns to lead. Gillian Welch delivers an entrancing As Long As the Grass Shall Grow; Emmylou does likewise with Apache Tears. Steve Earle drawls: “I ain’t no fan of Custer” and instrumentals evoke North America’s haunted plains. Very fine.

The Jazz Club series is an attractive addition to the Verve catalogue. With it's modern design and popular choice of repertoire, the Jazz Club is not only opened for Jazz fans, but for everyone that loves good music.
One of the more popular performers in the idiom somewhat inaccurately called "contemporary jazz," David Benoit has mostly performed light melodic background music, what critic Alex Henderson has dubbed "new age with a beat." Benoit has done a few fine jazz projects (including a tribute to Bill Evans and a collaboration with Emily Remler) but most of his output for GRP has clearly been aimed at the charts. He studied composition and piano at El Camino College and, in 1975, played on the soundtrack of the Robert Altman-film Nashville…