Michael Montalto Discography of CDs

Michael Montalto albums Those familiar with the burgeoning country music scene in California are already well acquainted with Red Meat, San Francisco's premier honky-tonk outfit whose previous two albums burned up Gavin's Americana charts. Once again, they display a wide range Recorded at Your Place Or Mine & ...

Michael Montalto songs Red Meat's contribution to the Americana universe is to stoke the legendary fires of that old Bakersfield sound, as once done by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. There are lots of hearty, fiery, twangy guitar leads that call to mind the leads of Don Rich, ...

Michael Montalto music CDs Personnel: David Stark (vocals, acoustic guitar, tenor saxophone); Mike Therieau (vocals, harmonica); Mickey Ferrell (guitar); Michael Montalto (mandolin, tack piano, organ). Recording information: The Wally Sound, Oakland, CA. Photographer: Sarah Wirt. Personnel includes: Dave Gleason (guitar); Michael Montalto, Joe Goldmark. Dave Gleason's Wasted Days: Dave Gleason (vocals, guitar); Dave ...

Michael Montalto CD discography The Byrds. Tom Petty. Dwight Yoakam. Robbie Fulks. It is in this lineage that Dave Gleason's Wasted Days lives and breaths. On their excellent though sorely overlooked 2004 release Midnight, California, the Oakland-based group carries a torch for '60s- and '70s-style outlaw country while infusing ...

Michael Montalto albums Dave Gleason's Wasted Days are heavily influenced by the late-'60s and early-'70s country-rock of bands such as the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Byrds (that is, the incarnation of the Byrds fueled by Clarence White). And on Just Fall to Pieces, Gleason and this crew ...

Michael Montalto discography Red Meat's raucous live album with 26 tracks, recorded at the Cinema Bar in Los Angeles, Southern California's smallest and most devoted country music venue. Recording information: Cinema Bar, Culver City, CA; Cinema Bar, Los Angeles. Photographer: Owen Bly. Personnel: Les James (vocals, drums); Smelley Kelley, Jill ...

Michael Montalto CD discography Recording information: The Space Shed, Los Angeles, CA; The Wally Sound, Oakland, CA. Personnel: Greg Moore , Paula Frazer (vocals); David Immerglück, Paulette Tyler, Wally Sound, Dave Gleason (guitar); John Kent (drums).

Michael Montalto music CDs Jill Olson was watching the 2002 Academy Awards with friends when, all of a sudden, she heard a very familiar song. Halle Berry had just won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in "Monster's Ball," and conductor John Williams struck up the band -- ...

Michael Montalto discography This debut is an exhilarating introduction to the Bay Area honky tonk scene from the band leading the pack, Red Meat. Proud of the heritage they are carrying into the next millennium, Red Meat makes no bones about their affinity for Buck Owens, Don Rich ...

Michael Montalto songs Every so often on LONESOMERS, there are echoes of Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell in Mare Winningham's expressive voice, which is set in a musical framework of straightforward, genial acoustic country-folk guitar and sweet vocal harmonies. The loveliness of Winningham's singing is just one of ...

Michael Montalto CD discography Nashville twang meets Liverpool jangle -- The Gal Who Would Be King would be the natural result had Marti Jones or Syd Straw been old enough to date the late Gram Parsons in his Flying Burrito Brothers days. The self-effacing Olson may seem on the surface to be as much a rural wallflower of her roots-pop genre ...