Arkansas Dave UK Tour- New Dates

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ARKANSAS DAVE ANNOUNCES UK TOUR DATES

6th July - Maverick Festival (Website; Easton Farm Park, Pound Corner, Easton, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP13 0EQ)

7th July - Maverick Festival

Sat 8th July 2018 - The Stag Inn, Hastings (14 All Saints Street, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3BJ) Facebook Event

Weds 11th July 2018 - The Doublet, Glasgow (Facebook; 74 Park Road, Glasgow, G4 9JF)

Thurs 12th July 2018 - The Atkinson Theatre, Southport (Lord Street PR8 1DB)

Fri 13th July 2018 - Green Room, London (101 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PP | Located behind the National Theatre on the corner of Upper Ground, next to Rambert.)

Sat 14th July 2018 - The Pennoyer Centre, Norwich (Station Rd, Pulham St Mary, Diss, Norfolk IP21 4QT) Facebook Event

Thurs 19th July 2018 - The Chapel Arts, Bath, Bath (Website, Lower Borough Walls, Bath BA1 1QR)

Fri 20th July 2018 - Birmingham International Jazz & Blues Festival Website

Sat 21st July 2018 - The Sun Inn, Dedham (Website; High Street, Essex CO7 6DF)

Arkansas Dave - Website

One hell of a debut. - Subba Cultcha
Nothing but pure goodness. - Pop Dose

We highly recommend you go out and purchase the album and a ticket to his upcoming tour, as you definitely want to be able to turn around to all your mates in 6 months and tell them you were the one who discovered him first. - Music News
'His debut album is filled with guitar-heavy tracks, gritty vocals and raw songwriting at it's best. - Lyric

...he cackles and crazed-gospel-preaches his way through four sides that veer between Seventies Stones licks and hooch-swilling southern bar boogie, ably assisted by the Muscle Shoals Studio rhythm section.  - The Arts Desk

I'm very rarely wrong with such matters and yet again I'm right, this is an album you too NEED TO OWN! - Rocking Magpie
Occasionally an artist comes along and wears their heart so firmly on their sleeve that you can't help but be moved. Arkansas Dave is an artist of that ilk.   - Unfashionable Male

‘Arkansas Dave’ is 13 tracks of hard hittings songs - Essentially Pop
This is a truly fantastic album that deserves a lot of recognition - Building Our Own Nashville
  

It’s a romantic cliché to find an escape in music and the blues, but living that life is a different matter. Ask Arkansas Dave about growing up in a broken home, with fundamental Christianity on one side, and crippling drug-addiction on the other, and you can see in his eyes that this is no easy ride, and that at times music really was his only friend.

Chasing his dream of music, Dave played in bands, funding his music with a succession of jobs where he had to find his feet quickly – from busboy to assembly-worker in a trash-bag factory.

His wake up call came at the edge of a breakdown with a cataclysmic weekend epiphany. He headed home for a rare visit, and was persuaded to play a few songs to his family. The response he got from his grandfather sent his mind racing, only for him to find out the next week that his grandfather had died 24 hours later.

“Squeaky Clean” (Official music video)

Arkansas Dave - Arkansas Dave

Release Date: 20 April 2018

Label: Big Indie Records

13 Tracks

Total Length: 49:44

Genres: Country

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UK iTunes – Spotify

Unsurprisingly his own compositions prove equally breath-taking. With snippets of pop, punk, rock, blues and country to fuel the album's 13 tracks, the relentless energy and explosive presence is one that will grip you from the moment you press play to the moment you click to repeat the experience. From channeling everyone's inner grunge teen on album opener Bad At Being Good, through to showing he can make you hot under the collar on Something For Me, Arkansas Dave has many guises but each one equally enjoyable. (Music-News.com Review Rating: 5 STARS Jeremy Williams-Chalmers)

Determined to clean himself up, and sort his life, Arkansas Dave enrolled on an audio engineering course at Media Tech in Austin Texas, driving into town with a trailer loaded with all his possessions, ‘like something out of the Beverly Hillbillies’. 

And that’s where everything changed – the college was housed at that time in the famous Arlyn Studios, home to sessions from Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Ray Charles. Dave with his musical co-horts took the night shift at the studios – laying down tracks and learning the ropes.

A succession of bands followed, picking up a strong local following around Austin. The final part of his musical education saw Dave touring North America as a member of old bluesman Guitar Shorty’s band, where he learned ‘what it took to be a professional musician’

Fast forward to 2016 and Dave has written the album he’s always wanted to create – a wide ranging blues-rock based record that tells the story of his life, but resonates with all of us.

The project just needed one more ingredient, so enter the Swampers, the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. In a blistering eight-day recording session at Fame Studios the band laid down the backing tracks, and Dave returned to Arlyn to complete the vocals. So the next chapter of Dave’s life is about to be written as he pulls his band together and takes his album out on the road – this time on a road that he’s building….

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