From: martin@vela.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Dave Crossland
Date: 5 Apr 92 18:10:22 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

In article <zhh+V5A@engin.umich.edu> eek@engin.umich.edu (Ericka Eve Kammerer) writes:

	What follows is most of the text from Dave Crossland's latest
   newsletter, which includes his most recent tour schedule and information
   on how to acquire his latest CD.  For those of you who don't know Dave,
   he's an up-and-coming folk singer lately of Ann Arbor, MI and now living
   in the Boston area.  He sings and plays the guitar and has won numerous
   national songwriting contest.  He's gained a loyal following here in
   Ann Arbor, and I expect in Boston too (anyone care to chime in?).  If
   you want to check him out, this article includes a list of radio stations
   who have his new CD and should be able to play it for you on request.

   (The following is reprinted without anyone's permission from Dave's latest
   newsletter.)

[Lots of promotional stuff - all true, by the way - deleted]
The new album, 'Here's To The Ride', has been getting quite a bit of airplay
on WUMB, and it sounds great.  Johnny Cunningham's fiddle gives it some
of the same flavor as Bill Morrissey's latest, 'Inside'.

Dave also opened for Michael Cooney at the Watch City Coffeehouse in Waltham
on Friday, but I missed it.  (What a crummy night.  I passed up that concert,
and also a chance to hear Debby McClatchy, to go hear Doug Clegg and Joyce
Anderson at the Rug Room Coffeehouse in Attleboro, MA.  I called ahead for
directions, but no one answered the phone.  I drove 40 minutes to get there
and asked directions from people on the street, but no one had heard of it.
I drove around town for an hour and couldn't find it, and Attleboro isn't
a huge city - 35,000 people).)

   And get ready 'cuz this spring I'm heading to California and back.  The
   Crossland Crosscountry Crosscontinental Here's to the Ride in the Rollin'
   '59 Studebaker (if I can get that valve job done in time) Tour is gettin'
   rattlin' rip-roarin' ready to ramble.  I'm still booking dates, but 
   performances will include:

   4/8    8:30 Passim **Album Release Concert** THIS DATE IS TENTATIVE
	  47 Palmer St, Cambridge, MA (617)492-7679
This _is_ listed in the FAN Almanac, has been in the radio listings, and in
the Globe Calendar.  I also got Dave's postcard the other day, saying that
he'll be driving all night to make it from Passim to the Ark.  Hope the
Studebaker is willing and able.
   4/9    8:00 The Ark **Midwestern Album Release Concert**
	  637 1/2 S. Main St., Ann Arbor, MI, (313)761-1800
   4/10   8:00 The Canal Street Tavern (opening for Michael Johnson) TENTATIVE
	  308 E. 1st St, Dayton, OH, (513)461-9343
   4/11   7:30 Susan's Coffee & Tea
	  2713 W. Market St, AKRON!...well, Fairlawn, OH, (216)867-2712
   4/18   8:00 Possum Corner, Century Chapel of the Sashabaw Presbyterian Church
	  5331 Maybee Rd, Clarkston, MI (313)625-1227
   4/23   Recording for "River City Folk" a radio show broadcast nationwide
	  on National Public Radio
   4/24   8:00? Omaha Folksong Society House Concert
	  Omaha, NE, (402)397-4073
   5/2    8:00 Julie's Place (site undetermined as yet)
	  Berkeley, CA, (415)548-8708
   5/8    8:00 Marie Poll House Concert (reservations a must, they say)
	  9737 Oakmore Rd, Los Angeles, CA, (213)836-0779
   5/9    8:00 The Fret House
	  309 N. Citrus, Covina, CA, (818)339-7020
   5/21-? residing at the Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville, TX
   6/18-19  The Telluride Folk Festival, Troubadour Contest, Telluride, CO

   After that, I should be in the Denver area, then heading east with stops
   at The Warrenville Folk Festival in Illinois on July 11 & 12, The
   Wildcat Ranch in Navarre, OH, and The Bluebird Cafe in Hashville, TN,
   then it's more festivals, and a possible festival tour through Western
   Canada....  Details will follow in the areas where I'll be playing.  So
   long!  And thanks to everyone!

   To get on the mailing list:
   ---------------------------

   Send mail with your address to:
      Dave Crossland
      Purple Beech Music, Eastern Branch
      P. O. Box 177
      Cohasset MA, 02025

   To get a recording:
   -------------------

   Make checks payable to Dave Crossland.

He still hasn't cashed the check I gave him in October for 'Looking for You'.
I'll have to remind him about that in Kerrville.  By the way, he was quite
reluctant to sell it (or the first album) to me, instead advising me to
wait for 'Here's to the Ride'.  I should have taken his advice.  The sound
quality on (only my copy? the master? of) 'Looking for You' is quite poor.
The songs are variable in quality, though the performances are good.  It
sounds like 'Here's to the Ride' is the only one of the three that 
accurately reflects Dave's talent.  I'm looking forward to getting my copy.

--
Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
Martin@cis.umassd.edu