David Reed
Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States | INDIE
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"David fills the room with delightful sounds and emits a passion for music that you can feel!"
- Dan Budd
"David fills the room with delightful sounds and emits a passion for music that you can feel!"
- Dan Budd
". . . Tamboura gives just enough clever patter to create a genuine party atmosphere."
"This band could play anywhere in the Caribbean and no one would dis them." - Michael Krawitz
". . . Tamboura gives just enough clever patter to create a genuine party atmosphere."
"This band could play anywhere in the Caribbean and no one would dis them." - Michael Krawitz
"Reed is an extremely competent, polished and exciting musician." - Rory Block, blues musician
"Reed is an extremely competent, polished and exciting musician." - Rory Block, blues musician
"Reed seamlessly transitions from reggae to blues to calypso to rock in his playing."
- Jaime Elliiot
"The band Tamboura played the most original performance of the day with its Caribbean-styled medley of Swing Low Sweet Chariot, I'll Fly Away and Amazing Grace. - Fernando Lavezzo
"The band Tamboura played the most original performance of the day with its Caribbean-styled medley of Swing Low Sweet Chariot, I'll Fly Away and Amazing Grace. - Fernando Lavezzo
Tamboura es bella scopeta del festival. - Roberto Guidi
Tamboura es bella scopeta del festival. - Roberto Guidi
"They are a real musicians' band with a groove colored with tones and shades from around the world that always moves forward in an approach similar to the Grateful Dead, with whom Tamboura shares an easygoing sensibility." - Seth Rogovoy
"They are a real musicians' band with a groove colored with tones and shades from around the world that always moves forward in an approach similar to the Grateful Dead, with whom Tamboura shares an easygoing sensibility." - Seth Rogovoy
"'Eclecticity' highlights Reed's deft acoustic guitar playing." - Seth Rogovoy
"'Eclecticity' highlights Reed's deft acoustic guitar playing." - Seth Rogovoy
"Tamboura delivers the passionate edge of rock with the primal pulse of worldbeat." - Ram Miles
"Tamboura delivers the passionate edge of rock with the primal pulse of worldbeat." - Ram Miles
"Reed's plaintive vocals, when combined with his worldbeat leanings, makes for a slight similarity to artists David Byrne and Peter Gabriel." - unk
"One of the best known band names on the Berkshire club scene." - Dave Read
"Reed's plaintive vocals, when combined with his worldbeat leanings, makes for a slight similarity to artists David Byrne and Peter Gabriel." - unk
Discography
"Asleep At The Keel" - DAVID REED - 12-song CD (2007, Dry Ducks Records). David Reed's newest smorgasbord of musical exotica and eclecticism - now ready for public consumption. Includes 2 Bonus Tracks!!!
"Try It Again" - DAVID REED - 12-song cassette (1989, Dry Ducks Records). Reed's first album of original songs. . .a classic!
"Eclecticity" - DAVID REED - 14-song CD (2003, Dry Ducks Records). An acoustic, eclectic mix of songs and instrumentals rooted in the ragtime/country blues tradition.
"Nev'enuff!" - TUTU MUCH - 13-song CD (2001, Dry Ducks Records). A collection of original and not-so-original songs inspired by the duo's Caribbean tours.
"Blues Sampler VII" - DAVID REED - Reed's song, Dr. Easy, was chosen for Oasis' 2007 Blues compilation disc. (www.OasisCD.com)
"Live at the Lion" - TAMBOURA - 13-song CD (1997, Dry Ducks Records). WorldGroove dance music recorded live at the world-famous Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, MA.
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"DAVID REED": Blues musician and recording artist Rory Block wrote of him, "David Reed is an extremely competent, polished and exciting musician." Striving to live up to such high praise, his solo banjo-driven performance of 'True Religion' became a show-stopper at the 2004 Lugano, Switzerland "Blues to Bop Festival's" gospel concert and his song 'Highway One' made the semi-finals in The Apple & Eve's 2004 Newport Folk Festival Songwriting Contest. Reed received further international recognition when he and TrioTAMBOURA were selected to be the first American band to play Bansko, Bulgaria's "8th International Jazz & World Music Fesitval" (2005). Annually, since 2004, Reed enjoys being the easy-breezy 'house musician' at world-famous Miss Lucy's Restaurant on St. John in the USVI. Acoustic Guitar magazine portrayed Reed, his gear and music in their April '06 issue and Reed's rootsy, 'Dr. Easy', was tapped for the 2007 Oasis "Blues Sampler VII" CD.
Equally at-home in coffeehouse & college/house-concert settings or as a complement for dinner parties, Bar-B-Q's or weddings, the music of David Reed romps with ragtime, rolls with rock, jumps with calypso, skanks de reggae and shimmers with NewAge stylings. An accomplished songwriter, finger-style guitarist and seasoned performer (He is a founding member of Max Creek, one of the nation's most legendary jam bands...still going strong!), Reed has begun been building and performing his music with his wonderful cigar box guitars.
David Reed has been bringing a smile to the face and a beat to the feet of audiences young and old for most of his life. His three solo records, "Try It Again", "Eclecticity" and his latest, "Asleep At The Keel", garner positive reviews.
But, he believes Rory's words still sum it up best.
"TUTU MUCH": This is a little band with a BIG sound! TuTu Much is a duo that pairs singer/songwriter David Reed's emotionally charged vocals, lushly distinctive acoustic guitars/banjo/harmonicas/cigar box instruments & percussion together with either "Samster" Earnshaw's remarkably jazzy drums & percussion, or Miss Mary Knysh's exotic steel drum, fanciful flutes & funky mandolin.
This is an electracoustic duo that pulses with rhythm and groove! The TuTus create music that's as refreshing as a Caribbean breeze and funky as a backstreet cafe. Since 1999, the TuTus escape to the Caribbean islands of St. John & St. Thomas for a winter tour where they perform and collect songs for their eclectic repertoire. Their CD "Nev'enuff!" sells very well in the Virgin Islands. . .go figure.
"TAMBOURA": Since 1996, their inspired voices have danced with flutes, steel drum, assorted guitars, basses, trumpet and driving world-beat drums & percussion to create the "Key West Comes North" sound that is Tamboura. The band played three successful tours of Switzerland and northern Italy where they brought their signature world-groove folkrock 'n reggae sound to the reknown "Blues to Bop Festival" in Lugano, Switzerland ('04) as well as to delighted college and house concert audiences ('03 & '10). Their exciting festival performances won over a new European audience and garnered them an invitation to perform at the 2005 Bansko 8th International Jazz Festival in the Pirrin Mountains of Bulgaria where the band showed more than a few gypsies how to reggaerock! Their CD "Live at the Lion" has sold out of its first pressing of 2500 and is into its second.
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