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NOMA **ARTIST** Home Page
"The Hemingway
of country music"
--Nanci Griffith
Richard Dobson is a poet, a musical visionary whose songs are
timeless vignettes, everyday tales of everyday folk. So far fame
has eluded this Texan giant but like Guy Clark he refuses to forego
his artistic principles in the search for money and glory.
The days his fan club includes John Prine, Steve Earle and Nanci
Grifth, whose plugging of her hero in concert has done the man's
career no harm at all.
Dobson hails from Texas but he travelled extensively, learning
to play guitar in South America. Faced by the draft in the sixties,
Dobson enrolled at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, and
joined the Peace Corps. He served a musical apprenticeship in
Texas folk clubs alongside Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, then
it was off to Nashville but few of his songs, save a David Allan
Coe cut of Piece of Wood And Steel were being recorded.
He quit Nashville for the Texas Gulf Coast and released an album,
In Texas Last December. From that point he picked up a
larger following culminating with a cover of Babe Ride Easy
in Dave Edmunds and Carlene Carter which persuaded him to give
Nashville another shot.
He's still there, still a cult act and writer and still making
records. His latest, State of the Heart, is a live album
and deserves more than mail order promotion. Nanic Giffith calls
him "the Hemingway of Country Music" and it's almost
a crime that more people haven't discovered the sensitivity and
poetry of Richard Dobson.
-- Andrew Vaughan, St. Martin's Press / New York
Currently available from NOMA:
- One Bar Town
$14.95
(Click on 
for sound clips)
16 tracks, including:
|
One Bar Town
52 Seconds, 209 Kb |
|
Bus Stop Coffee
54 Seconds, 214 Kb |
|
Stranger
53 Seconds, 213 Kb |
Back Tracks
$14.95
A compilation CD with 21 tracks
from two earlier releases,
Save The World
- and -
True West
Richard Dobson has additional releases available on Brambus Records
This Artist's Home Page has been accessed times
since 12/21/95
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If you like Richard Dobson, you might also like
Rex Foster |
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