Album Notes

This is the very first disk released by David, who went on to become the landslide top vote-getter at the Falcon Ridge (NY) Folk Festival’s “Most-Wanted” competition and a NAIRD “Indie” nominee (singer-songwriter album of the year for “Digging Through My Closet”, the follow-up to this recording). David strikes many chords, hearts, and minds with his unique songs, offbeat observations, moving stories, and powerful singing and subject matter. Since emerging from another nationwide field of several hundred songwriters to open the Kerrville (TX) Folk Festival as it’s New Folk Winner, the Chicago native (and two-time national anthem singer for the NBA’s Michael Jordan-era Bulls) has garnered accolades for his performances, workshops, writing, and recordings. Featured on many of Christine Lavin’s Rounder compilations, the former artist-in-residence at New York’s Omega Institute has also been a songwriting judge at Kerrville, Napa Valley (CA), Tumbleweed (WA), and the South Florida Folk Festival. In addition to singing “Earth” at the 40th Anniversary of the United Nations, David’s “Rising in Love” was performed at the 100th Anniversary of Carnegie Hall in 1991, and “Manuel Garcia” and “Nine Gold Medals” both appear in the international best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul & Mary) performs David’s “Spacesuits” on PPM tours and produced “If You Can’t Fly” for his 2002 children’s album “World Around Song” and the BOSE Corporation includes “Taller Than My Hair” and “Five Blind Men” on their “best of new folk” compilations. David’s recorded 8 CDs on the Wind River label (with a 9th and 10th in Germany on Stockfisch Records) and has been living on Cape Cod since 2000 after 8 years in Seattle. ~ www.davidrothmusic.com