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dave simonett red tail

3/18/2020

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​Dave Simonett (from the album Red Tail available on Dancing Eagle Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Slow things down. Take a breath. That is the model for Dave Simonett, of jam-grass band Trampled by Turtles, on his recent solo effort, Red Tail. TxT offered up-tempo tunes and layers of instrumentation that packed the fields of festivals and concert dancefloors with Dave Simonett at the helm as frontman. Always a  songwriter, the songs of Dave Simonett have followed a path set by Trampled by Turtles and while the jam grass scene shows tasty chops and promises a good time, song lyrics can get lost in a sea of solos. Dave Simonett chooses to reel things in, favoring and focusing on melody and lighter instrumentation on Red Tail. 
“Revoked” kicks off Red Tail with a dreamy dose of ambient Americana, flowing into heartbreaker “Pisces, Queen of Hearts”, the cut a memory and a lament, the story looking back on ‘the moonlight on your golden skin, and wishing I was better than I really am’. “Silhouette” is a subtle chugger with more lyrical woes, more loss, another memory twist where ‘I sure as hell remember every little ounce of you’. “In the Western Wind and the Sunrise” starts as a piano ballad, finishing up with the piano touch soft, the playing delicately pushing out a melody under gentle feedback. Stabbing guitars that would fit in a revved-up Indie Rock Punk tune find their way into the gentle “You Belong Right Here”, giving the Folk tune a fitting shot in the arm, the track a great template for Red Tails. Showcasing deeper levels of his songwriting, Dave Simonett solidifies his ability to hang in the Folk crowd, the feedback and rough-around-the-edges guitar work showing an experimental side to his own take on the genre. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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