08-08-08 - Live New York City 1982, originally pulled from David’s tape stash for limited edition sales a few years ago, is the only recording to date of the David Bromberg Quartet (DBQ) but sounds as fresh as if recorded on the current spring/summer tour by David and his band. Newly remastered for re-release on Appleseed, and now sporting droll, informative liner notes by David, Live NYC 1982 features three of the current members of the Quartet – Bromberg (vocals, guitar, fiddle, mandolin), award-winning fiddler Jeff Wisor (also mandolin, harmony vocals), and “Butch” Amiot (bass guitar, harmony vocals) – and Gene Johnson (mandolin, fiddle, harmony vocals), who now plays with the successful country/bluegrass band Diamond Rio and was eventually replaced by ex-Greenbriar Boy Bobby Tangrea. David’s own bluegrass credentials include performing or recording with Jerry Douglas, Vassar Clements, Doc Watson, Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka and other pantheon-level pickers, as well as playing countless folk, country, and pop sessions for everyone from Bob Dylan to Dion. (Bromberg, Tangrea, and Wisor are also part of Chum, the backing group for Angel Band, the vocal trio led by Bromberg’s wife, Nancy Josephson; the second Angel Band CD, With Roots & Wings, was released in May by Appleseed.)

The DBQ’s breathtaking mixture of precision and abandon, both instrumentally and vocally, is quickly established by the medley of fiddle tunes that spins off Live NYC 1982’s opening “Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down,” as guitar, fiddle, and mandolin weave a high-speed whirlwind out of “Red Apple Rag,” “Turkey in the Straw,” “Dixie Hoedown” and other traditional finger-busters, climaxing in a three fiddle rave-up (with David playing the first fiddle he built while on hiatus).

Interspersed between exuberant, uptempo bluegrass staples such as “Stay All Night” and “Sally Gooden” are more leisurely standards, including “Dark Hollow,” “On Our Last Date” (a melancholy Conway Twitty – Floyd Cramer song), a lovely instrumental called “Ookpik Waltz,” and a pair of acoustic blues numbers (Leroy Carr’s “Midnight Hour Blues” and Furry Lewis’s hilarious “The Creeper’s Blues,” a tale of man versus bedbug). More contemporary fare includes Bob Dylan’s country waltz, “Wallflower” (which he and David first recorded for a Doug Sahm album), David Massengill’s delicate “Fairfax County” murder ballad, and Ralph McTell’s humorous Old West pastiche, “When I Was a Cowboy.” Aside from adapting and arranging all of the traditional material here, Bromberg also wrote the road lament, “The New Lee Highway Blues” (“It was a stinking summer trip to Southern hell”). High, lonesome harmonies, mindboggling instrumental chops, and a contagious sense of fun make Live New York City 1982 a must-have release for Bromberg’s many fans, old and new, and for all lovers of acoustic American music.

07-10-08 - David Bromberg is doing a one off last minute thing on July 26th 2008 in NYC called Big River Project: The Songs of Johnny Cash. He’s doing one song accompanied by the group Ollabelle. The show is at 8pm and is free to the public.

The Big River Project honors many of the songs that comprised Johnny Cash’s storied repertoire, which covers a vast range of the Americana songbook with songs addressing the complexities of love, God, murder, redemption, and more.

This free concert is part of the 2008 River To River Festival, and takes place under the glass atrium of the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street (directly across the street from the World Trade Center site), on Saturday, July 26, at 8:00pm. Performing their own arrangements of Cash’s songs will be John Doe, Ollabelle, Laura Cantrell, Benevento-Russo Duo, Jay Farrar, Persuasions, David Bromberg, Hymns, Raul Midon, Catherine Russell, Marshall Crenshaw, Sway Machinery, and others.

Big River Project website:

www.myspace.com/bigriverproject

Location: World Financial Center’s Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street (directly across the street from the World Trade Center site)

07-10-08 - David Bromberg with special guests Angel Band will be playing LIVE in Videoranch on Wednesday, July 16th, at 7PM Pacific Time. This is a virtual concert so you attend by logging on from a computer. You do not have to leave your house! Bring the performing arts into your home and be a part of a live audience of music lovers! KPIG will simulcast the show!Show Times around the world for Wednesday July 16th 2008:
Pacific Time: 7PM to 8PM
Mountain Time: 8PM to 9PM
Central Time: 9PM to 10PM
Eastern Time: 10PM to 11PM
UK Time: 3AM to 4AM Sunday

European Continent: 4AM to 5AM Thursday
New Zealan Time: 2PM to 3PM Thursday
Sydney AU:  12 Noon to 1PM Thursday
Toky: 11AM to 12 Noon Thursday

What is Videoranch?
Videoranch is a 3D world on the internet, where LIVE musical performances are video-cast, seamlessly embedded, and viewed, in real-time, by a virtual audience made up of people logging on from all over the world.  

To attend the show, you need high speed internet access and newer computer with Windows on it (Intel Macs work great if Windows is installed).
WATCH IT LIVE: Go to www.videoranch3d.com and log in as a visitor.

INTERACT WITH THE ARTIST: Once inside Videoranch, you can move around, dance, cheer, chat and meet other Videoranch patrons. David Bromberg and his band will be able to see your Avatar and read your comments LIVE, so be sure to let them know how much you are enjoying the show! Ranch Hands will be on duty to help you and will greet you the moment you log on.

Find out more information by emailing vr3d@videoranch.com, calling toll free 1-866-727-2639, or going to www.myspace.com/videoranch

KPIG radio will simulcast the audio portion of the show. http://www.kpig.com

Below is a blurb from Singer and Musician magazine. This might help give you a sense of what the experience is like to attend a Videoranch concert:

"Imagine a place where the air is clean, the temperature is always in the pleasenties, you are surrounded by nice folks and there's a live band that knows you by name. Plus, there are free movies and hot air balloon rides. It's VideoRanch, a virtual world cooked up by Michael Nesmith (One-time member of the Monkees and, more importantly, music video pioneer). Feel free to roam the ranch at your leisure, and then check out the event calendar for upcoming live groups. I popped in on a Sunday afternoon and was immediately greeted by name (my chosen nickname) by the house band, Ranch Dressing (these guys are great!). A bit later, The Refugees took the stage for a full hour live show. Other performers have included The John Jorgenson Quintet, Eliza Gilkyson, James McMurtry, Laurence Juber, Laura Love, Mumbo Gumbo, The Greencards, Ledward Kaapana, Tony Furtado and Jason Nesmith. What makes this so unique is that the band is actually playing in real time from a studio. And, as they know who is coming and going, they can interact with you (actually, your avatar). It's very much like just hanging with some friends and listening to some great music is in an intimate, outdoor atmosphere. And, after the band has gone home, you can stroll the ranch's tree-lined cobblestone walk-ways in search of some interesting and fun surprises or even get a look at the virtual facility from in the sky onboard a hot air-balloon."

--------------- Robert Lindquist, Singer and Musician Magazine

03-15-08 - I posted a video of David performing Demon in Disguise with John Sebastian on Harp Iowa State University 01-22-85. Click here to view.

03-15-08 - Live From the Fur Peace Ranch brings to the airwaves a series of concerts from the ranch's concert stage every Friday night. Many of these concerts are also available for Internet listening. David Bromberg and Jorma Kaukonen's performance from Friday January 25, 2008 can be herd by Clicking here

David Bromberg: A Master Instrumentalist Returns Hear an Interview and In-Studio Performance from Thr World Cafe, September 14, 2007
Click here to listen in.

12-20-07 - His music is as eclectic as the artwork in his Wilmington home, a distinction that recently earned David Bromberg a Grammy nomination. David has his own feelings on being invited to the 50th Grammy awards ceremony in February as a nominee. Click here to view the news clip.