david dondero filter bubble blues

​David Dondero (from the album The Filter Bubble Blues available on Fluff and Gravy Records)
What is a filter bubble? The Oxford Dictionary has the definition as a situation in which an Internet user encounters only information and opinions that conform to and reinforce their own beliefs, caused by algorithms that personalize an individual’s online experience. Sound familiar? David Dondero opens his recent release, The Filter Bubble Blues (his 10th album), from the comfort of an “Easy Chair”, the cut beginning the song cycle with a man frozen in place by the faces and events passing by on a variety of screens right in front of his eyes, watching ratings rise with death tolls as he lets his mind wander. He is just one the characters walking the corridors of The Filter Bubble Blues. The men and women that find themselves the centerpoints of the songs are the fuel for David Dondero’s stories. A devotee of Woody Guthrie, David Dondero received early musical advice from Bruce Springsteen to Black Flag, David’s words all tipped with a rock’n’roll bite. The tales that unfold take today into consideration as David Dondero takes a tour in the museum of sunken ideas, meandering down corridors of racial tension in “Underwater Sculpture Garden” while gun violence is the topic of “Empty Gesture” and disappearing neighborhoods for “All the Empty Houses” as indignity, bigotry, and social studies the lessons within “The Presidential Palace of Pornography”. David Dondero is poking the population, his hopes that his opinions break through the wall established between us and them. Our troubled times watch as the atmosphere becomes toxic, the result is a numbness that is (at times) an insurmountable barrier that divides friends and families. The weather is the stage setting when David Dondero links health to high winds with “Thought I Was a Hurricane” and tributes a victim of the Charlottesville civil rights unrest rally, “Heather Heyer” while The Filter Bubble Blues wonder about consequences in “When the Pendulum Swings”.
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