Anew Music Artists: Gary O'Dea
"Somewhat a veteran of the Midlands music scene. Since his days
fronting the torch bearers of country tinged rock n' roll here in the
Midlands 'The Love Hounds', Gary has delivered a no-nonsense approach
and a collection of songs to rival many an American roots artist."
After the break up of The Love Hounds Gary took a sabbatical from the
music scene and the back of a 'transit van'.
He returned a few years later and put together some songs from his days
with The Love Hounds, along with some new acoustic material he'd recorded,
on a CD/ album entitled 'Love Hounds n' Fortune Cookies'.
The CD was released on Anew Music's Snook's Records label
- at last a home had been given to Gary's song writing talents.
The album received some excellent reviews with Gary being placed in the
same neighbourhood as Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance and American acts
such as Green on Red. It picked up airplay on national and local
radio as well as some 'Stateside' stations such as WDVX in Knoxville,
WOUI in Chicago and WUNC-FM in North Carolina, KZSC in Santa Cruz - California.
A visit to California in 1996 saw Gary perform at the Campbell Arts Festival
in San Jose as well as playing acoustic gigs in the San Jose / San Francisco
area. In 1998 with his new band The Gentleman Bandits he
performed at The Glastonbury Festival. His hard work and down to earth
appeal has built up a solid reputation on the 'LIVE' music circuit over
the years. The band is an adaptable line up that has a full acoustically
driven sound that can also scale down to intimate support slots. As well
as heading the bill, Gary has also played acoustic support slots to acclaimed
songwriters such as Bap Kennedy (Ireland), Neal Casal (USA) and Peter
Bruntnell in venues around the country. A trip to Dublin for the 2001
St Patrick's celebrations saw Gary accompanying the excellent Dublin based
Rough Deal String Band on harmonica, in a bluegrass evening held at the
city's The Cobblestone venue.
A collaboration with London based musicians in January 2000 resulted
in the recording of a CD/album called ICONS. The band took the name The
Zen Buddah Boot Boys and included notable musicians such as Gary
Lammin, Glenn Somerville and Darrell Bath. It was also produced
by the acclaimed Dave Goodman.
In May 2000 Gary finally released his second CD on Anew Music, a 4 track
EP called Sittin' On Your Fence. The EP saw Gary working
once again with Gary Lammin and Glenn Somerville and also a special appearance
from the legendary Steve Gibbons and noted musician PJ Wright.
It's been described as "A Romping, Raucous, Stomping, Country
Rocking, Anglicana, Seedy Blues Infested - HULLABALLOO" and has
gained some excellent reviews.
Gary has used a six - piece line up of the Gentlemen Bandits but also
performs with a tight nucleus of the band, which is a three-piece line
up. During 2001 he performed at a few festival dates as part of a small
summer tour, as well as working on new songs for the recording of a brand
new album.
The dates included The Americana Festival (Main Stage) - Nottingham Fri
6th July, Lichfield Arts Festival (Main Stage) Sat 14th July, The MAC
- Birmingham Tue 31st July, Nantwich Folk and Roots Festival (Acoustic
Stage) - Cheshire Sun 19th August, The Baggeridge Music Festival (Main
Stage) Sat 1st September - Baggeridge nr Wolverhampton.
A series of acoustic dates with the scaled down line up that were prepared
for the period of October / November and December 2001, have been cancelled
due to Gary suffering a bad back injury. These will be rescheduled for
2002.
The new album will be released in 2002.
ENJOY.
http://www.songwriterscafe.co.uk/artists/gary o'dea/gary.html
 The
CD Album "Love Hounds
'n' Fortune Cookies" features 11 songs dedicated to the memory
of Ronnie 'Plonk' Lane.
TRACK LIST: Dream On, Slowdown, Welcome to the Show, You 'oughta' Burn,
Summertime, Out of the Blue, My Sweet Rita, Way Back Home, Early Morning
till the Sun Go' Down, Little Miss Fortune, Wanna' Move.
Gary's first CD released through Snooks Records / Anew Music, "Love
Hounds 'n' Fortune Cookies" is a collection of songs from Gary's
days with 'The Love Hounds' and more recent acoustic material.
 Snook's
Records / Anew Music Presents GARY O'DEA Brand New EP. "Sitting
on Your Fence".
EP features Steve Gibbons, PJ Wright, Gary Lammin And Glenn Somerville
amongst others.
Additional Tracks - Singapore Joe, Searching For Sal, Big City Blue.
More raucous mayhem and country licks from the master of Country Music
- Black County that is!
 THE
ZEN BUDDAH BOOT BOYS CD album "Icons"
also features Gary O'Dea.
Recording Line-up: Gary Lammin - Vocals + Guitars. Darrell Bath - Vocals
+ Guitars. Glenn Somerville - Double Bass, Violin + Mandolin. Gary O'Dea
- Vocals, Harmonica + Percussion. Jim Houghton - Congas, Percussion +
Jaw Harp. Jim Invisible - Hammond + Piano. Matt Tweed - Sitar, Temple
Bells, Triangle and lot's of other hippy stuff. Electric Bass Guitar was
played at various times by Pete Webb, Mick Keogh and Gary Lammin.
TRACK LIST: Last Night I Dreamt I Met My Enemy, Eye For An Eye, Oh Yeah,
Street Dog, Welcome Home, Still A Drag, The Actor and The Gypsy, Icons,
Alive and Breathing, Robert Johnson, Rumbleweed.
 Gary
also has his own radio show
on Thursday evenings on Wolverhampton Campus Radio
Check out the all new
Gary O'Dea Picture Album!
Gary's Links:
www.countrymusicinbritain.co.uk
www.hotdisc.net
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Gary O'Dea live dates!!!