{"id":33789,"date":"2018-03-10T13:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=33789"},"modified":"2018-03-10T13:20:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:20:06","slug":"austin-based-blues-singer-arkansas-dave-set-to-release-eponymous-debut-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/03\/austin-based-blues-singer-arkansas-dave-set-to-release-eponymous-debut-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin-Based Blues Singer Arkansas Dave Set To Release Eponymous Debut Album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arkansas Dave – photo credit Jacqueline Scripps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With an album that runs the gamut from blues to gospel to rock, Arkansas Dave pulls no punches with his debut album. Set for release on 20 April through BIG Indie Records, ‘Arkansas Dave’ is 13 tracks of hard hitting songs.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

‘Arkansas Dave’ was recoreded over a period of eight days at Fame Studios, with the help of The Swampers, aka The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section – Will McFarlane, Clayton Ivey, and Bob Wray, and produced by Jamie “Gypsy” Evans, and Dave himself. The album also features horn arrangements by Charles Rose, and Jim Horn. Vocals were completed at Arlyn Studios, in Austin, where Dave is based.<\/p>\n

Looking every bit like an old time outlaw (Dave even shares his name with a George Strait song based loosely on the life and death of outlaw Dave Rudabaugh), Dave Pennington was born and raised in south Arkansas and grew up on a diet of blues and rock’n’roll, cutting his music chops in dive bars and honky tonks in his home state and in Texas, where he was given his nickname.<\/p>\n