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David
Brake & That Damn Band have been described as "Texas y'alternative"
-- an explosive combination of Americana, country, rock, and blues. The songs
are piano- or guitar-based, and change stylistically, like the Beatles' White
Album. DAVID BRAKE
& THAT DAMN BAND
"LEAN MEAN TEXAS MACHINE"
" The way I see it
- if they laugh when they're supposed to laugh, think when they're supposed to
reflect, and rock out when we blow the roof off the joint, then I'm doin' my job."
,says David Brake about the songs on "Lean Mean Texas Machine", his
debut CD on Westerland Records. The release is a combination of Rock, Country,
Folk, & Blues Americana reflecting David's influences (Steve Earle, Bruce
Springsteen, Bruce Hornsby, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan).
David's music
had been described as a "rock band with a fiddle"or "Texas y'alternative,"
and can fit country, rock, or blues formats. On the release, That Damn Band is
made up of well-known regional musicians like Scott Mcgill/slide guitar, Terry
Westbrook/drums, Scott Johnson/fiddle, and Rankin Peters/bass, and many others
make guest appearances. The CD was engineered by Houston Press Producer of the
Year nominee - Dan Workman, and mixed at Sugar Hill studios. The 1st track "Even
Five to Closing Time" is now gaining airplay on radio stations across Texas,
and the title track "Lean Mean Texas Machine" was the Featured New Artist
Track on the Official Texas Music Countdown (syndicated on over 25 stations).
David Brake has been entertaining audiences for almost a decade in Houston
and toured the country as a musician for nearly twice that long. Born somewhere
in rural Michigan, his family moved frequently around the country as he discovered
a love for music at a very young age. He sang his first acapella solo at seven
years old at a church in Kansas, and taught himself piano and guitar by ear before
taking lessons and "faking sight reading." His professional experience
includes playing with groups & recording artists of many genres and from many
regions (The Heat & The Cold Sweat Horns/Baltimore, Boyd Chisolm/New Mexico,
The Classics/Ohio, & The Move/Kansas City), as well as playing nightclubs
in band, duo, and solo formats. He was the headlining piano player/singer
at City Streets nightclub in Houston for 8 years, but it was only two years ago
that he started playing his own music. The catalyst for this was a throat surgery
that resulted in the removal of a polyp from his vocal cords. "I had been
writing songs since I was a little boy, but I never played them for anyone. When
the doctor told me I might never sing again, all I could think was that no one
would ever hear them." Thankfully the surgery was a success, and six months
later, his voice was back stronger than ever. He immediately set about recording
his songs, and along the way formed the group that would later be known as That
Damn Band (unknowingly named one morning by a neighbor who was disturbed by the
drums)…the results are found on "Lean Mean Texas Machine."
Laura Finke / Westerland Records
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