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Americana
and jam band music.
About David
He's best known for his work with the Grateful Dead, but
singer-songwriter David Gans has a voice, a style, and a songbook all his
own.
With the aid of a digital recording device called the Loop Station, "solo
electric" performer Gans can build his musical accompaniment in real time
from a single acoustic guitar to a multi-layered sonic
environment that sometimes leads to dancing. "He's not just a one-man
band, he's the future of singer-songwriting," says Wired magazine's Steve
Silberman. "Some of the most exciting stuff emanating from one guy with a
guitar that I've ever seen - David Gans is the bastard child of Hank
Williams, Jackson Browne, and Robert Fripp!"
It's all in service of the song, Gans insists. As KPFK's Barry Smolin
wrote in the liner notes for Gans's concert DVD Live at the
Powerhouse, "In a voice that communicates at once the bliss and the
heartache of being alive in the world, David Gans croons like the warmest
invitation, like a soulful bear hug, but with a sardonic edge at times
and the unmistakably wry gleam of the trickster: Swift with allusions and
wordplay yet always heartfelt and real, David doesn't need to hide behind
irony. He's not afraid to say 'I love you' and mean it."
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