"Rocking Chair" (the title song
about David's mother rocking him as a child) is an album that
will fill the heart with images and sounds of family, home, and
stories of the romantic southwest. This "roots" folk
album features song lyrics and vocals by David Lewis, backup
vocals by Charlene Tarango, guitar, dobro, steel guitar and mandolin
by master picker Ken Skaggs and keyboards and accordion by Kevin
Stoller.
David Lewis is a native of Phoenix Arizona
and has had a lifelong passion for music and expressive song
lyrics. He started playing drums at the age of 8, and later picked
up the guitar and started a career of song writing. Early influences
on David Lewis's music include first and foremost his mother
who could dance and sing like no ones business, the Beatles,
Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell and Dan
Fogelberg. In most recent years, David Lewis's musical tastes
have expanded into folk, bluegrass, blues, and country artists
and gets inspiration from artists like Los Lobos, Mark Cohn,
Keb Mo, Brad Paisley, Cheryl Wheeler, Ellis Paul and Allison
Kraus. David Lewis writes masterful songs to express deep human
feelings and to tell stories that we can all resonate with.
The CD "Rocking Chair" was brought
to life when gifted producer Liv Singh Khalsa collaborated with
David Lewis to record twelve of his original compositions with
poetic and captivating song lyrics. The CD provides excellent
samples of the kind of listening that makes folk want to explore
some of their own feelings, get up and dance, or just back and
enjoy the great instrumental arrangements and song lyrics. The
album features tasty seasonings of folk, country, rock, pop,
and gospel. Listeners of "Rocking Chair" often say
they have never heard of anything like it, and they listen to
it over and over or at special times. "Rocking Chair"
is a must for any music collection!