p j harvey To Bring You My Love CD

Dave’s fourth CD, The Zoomy Trail (2009) is the latest snapshot of a full-time musical career that has spanned over two decades. Infused with emotion, unforgettable melodies, and quality songwriting, this is Dave’s strongest and most personal collection of songs to date. From intimate solo performances to full band ensembles, it’s the way he hears music. A rootsy album with a variety of genres and contemporary production, cohesively pulled together by Dave’s distinctive vocal style and guitar playing. His music puts him on club, concert and school stages from New England to Florida, west to Colorado, and to the U. S. Virgin Islands. Dave creates his own style from his love of New Orleans R & B, Pop, Blues, World Music, and Country-grass, to bring a well-rounded set of contemporary roots music to the stage. In acoustic settings, he has shared bills with international acts such as Richie Havens, Toots & the Maytals, David Lindley, Arlo Guthrie, Chris Smither, Pat Donohue, and Tinytown (half of the Subdudes). Juggling dual careers, Dave is also known as front man for the highly acclaimed NH - based band (Savoy) Truffle. As well as headlining respected venues across the country, playing as many as 275 shows a year, Truffle has shared the stage with Little Feat, Phish, The Band, Blues Traveler, The Radiators, and Dave Matthews Band to name a few. Truffle’s success led to the signing of a three album deal with November/Sony records. Off the stage, compositions from his first two records (Memory Hill and Losing the Boy) have appeared on a film soundtrack and a learning video series used by the N.Y. C. Board of Education. His tune “Preston Hollow” won him a finalist spot in the John Lennon Songwriting contest. He has won countless “Best Artist” awards and a “Song of the Year” award for ‘I’m Coming Home” (Dreams of Kings) from Jam Music Magazine in his home state of NH. Solo shows provide Dave the freedom to improvise vocally and on guitar, taking liberties with song structures. Playing without a set list allows for a unique show at every performance – and you never know who may stop by and sit in…… Enjoy!“Dave Gerard, one of NH's finest songwriters, has released his third solo album, Dreams of Kings. It is Gerard’s best of his three releases; which says a lot. “Tejanos Radio’ could be on any Dave Matthews Band release, and I love it!”~ Jam Music Magazine (New England)“Dave Gerard is like a fine wine. Not only is he super tasty, but he gives you a nice buzz. Oh yeah, he also gets better with age.. His music has been the soundtrack of thousands of lives across the Seacoast.”~ Portsmouth Herald (NH)“Gerard’s voice is thick-walled, river-strong, and deliciously bottomless.”~ Showcase Magazine (NH)“Dave is a master of acoustic-Americana with a voice to die for” ~ C-Ville Weekly (Charlottesville, VA)

Personnel: PJ Harvey (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, vibraphone, marimba, percussion, chimes, bell); John Parish (guitar, organ, drums, percussion); Joe Gore (guitar, E-Bow); Sonia Slany (violin); Jules Singleton, Jocelyn Pook (viola); Sian Bell (cello); Mick Harvey (organ, bass); Joe Dilworth (drums); Jean-Marc Butty (drums, percussion).
Producers: Flood, Polly Jean Harvey, John Parish.
Recorded at Townhouse Three, Battersea, England in September and October 1994.
TO BRING YOU MY LOVE was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. "Down By The Water" was nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
Personnel: PJ Harvey (vocals, guitar, strings, piano, organ, vibraphone, marimba, percussion, bells, chimes); Joe Gore (guitar, E-bow); John Parish (guitar, organ, drums, percussion); Sonia Slany (violin); Jules Singleton, Jocelyn Pook (viola); Sian Bell (cello); Jean-Marc Butty (drums, percussion); Joe Dilworth (drums).
Audio Mixer: Flood.
Recording information: Battersea Townhouse Three (09/1994-10/1994).
PhotograpRolling Stone (5/13/99, p.58) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
Rolling Stone (1/25/96, p.41) - Ranked #1 in the 1996 Critics' Poll.
Rolling Stone (3/9/95, pp.63-64) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Harvey envisions a teeming underworld where she is victim, aggressor and accomplice, song by song....all these are put in the service of a primal vision on TO BRING YOU MY LOVE: Harvey's bitter struggles with her demons and her wicked, wanton sympathy for the devil..."
Spin (9/99, p.117) - Ranked #3 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
Spin (12/95, p.62) - Ranked #3 on Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums of '95.'
Spin (4/95, p.195) - 10 - Classic - "...She knows that rock'n'roll... stimulates desire, and if you're hungry enough, it can...break you apart....Harvey uses it...to free the man in her, and the madwoman, the goddess and the ghost. While most of her peers graze pop culture's surfaces for inspiration, Harvey plunges under. She's bent on touching rock's magical core..."
Entertainment Weekly (12/29/95-1/5/96, p.132) - Ranked #5 on EW's Top 10 Albums Of 1995.
Entertainment Weekly (3/10/95, p.68) - "...Her lyrics convey desire and love, while her barbed-wire voice betrays uncertainty about giving over that much of herself....TO BRING YOU MY LOVE is the most welcome of rarities: a move toward maturity without any loss of Harvey's visceral power..." - Rating: A
Q (2/96, p.63) - Included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995 - "...it's sensual, intoxicating stuff, compelling--and expertly--performed..."
Alternative Press (5/95, pp.74-75) - "...TO BRING YOU MY LOVE could be described as menstrual, in the primeval, ritualistic, sense of the word, the Earth Mother unleashing powers which man would rather lock up for fear of the dark....In another time, they'd call it the blues. But really, it's blacker than that..."
Melody Maker (12/23-30/95, pp.66-67) - Ranked #9 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's `Albums Of The Year' - "...Rapacious, bluesy, stylistically drawing on Zeppelin and Cave..."
Musician (5/95, pp.85-86) - "...No matter how good her earlier records convinced you Polly Harvey was, she's lots better...an innovative leap forward. She's written primal blues and country-based songs about love, death and longing and sung them passionately with no irony or distance..."
Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #1 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Mojo (Publisher) (p.62) - Ranked #40 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[A]n unprecedented slice of coal-black, freakily obsessional avant-roots-rock."
New York Times (Publisher) (1/6/96, p.C16) - Included on Jon Pareles' and Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums of `95 - "In Polly Jean Harvey's songs, love becomes immolation and salvation, holy quest and desperate obsession..."
NME (Magazine) (12/23-30/95, pp.22-23) - Ranked #8 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The Year' for 1995 - "...Obsession, voodoo rituals, religious visions, murder, revenge and a kind of spiritual search for love...set to a creaking, flinty modern-day blues..."