Well, I've finally recorded "Please Don't Ask Me About Her." The song has been getting lots of positive feedback at my gigs, so, with a lot of help from Josh Noland, Stu Schulman and Keith Junot, it's finally out. Here's the news release we're sending out with it:
PALIN-INFLUENCED? SINGER WON’T SAY, BUT SONG TELLS OF LOVE AFFAIR GONE SOUR
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – While the reading public anticipates Sarah Palin’s autobiography, music fans can listen to a new song that may reflect many Alaskans’ views of their former governor. “Please Don’t Ask Me About Her,” a song by Anchorage-based singer-songwriter Hurricane Dave, is being released this week.
“It’s not a political number; it’s more of a country song about a love gone bad,” said Hurricane Dave, who declines to say if the song is specifically about Palin, who resigned as governor in the summer of 2009. It never mentions her by name but contains lyrics such as “Our love was a bridge to nowhere,” “She left me in the middle of our song,” and “ ‘Going rogue,’ she said, and flew off like a bird.”
The song was written and produced by Hurricane Dave and recorded in studios in Perry, Fla., and Anchorage.
“On my trips to the Lower 48 over the past year and a half, people always asked me what it’s like to live in Alaska,” Dave said.
“But their first question wasn’t about the mountains, the glaciers, the cold weather, the bears or the salmon. It was always something about HER,” he said, declining to specify who “her” is.
“Please Don’t Ask Me About Her” is as much about living in Alaska as it is about the tragic end of a love affair. For example, the first chorus concludes with “You can ask me about the Iditarod or the Rendezvous of Fur, but please don’t ask me about her.”
The tune is akin to a Western shuffle and features legendary Alaskan musicians Stu Schulman on pedal steel and Keith Junot on fiddle.
“I figured the folks who don’t pay any attention to lyrics might like something to dance to, so the song serves multiple purposes,” Dave said.
Schulman engineered the Anchorage portion of the recording and mixed the single, after noted country music producer Josh Noland recorded the rhythm tracks in Florida.
Singer-guitarist Hurricane Dave has been entertaining for about 35 years, getting his start in the clubs of Washington, D.C., and spending time in Nashville, Las Vegas, Southern California and South Florida. He moved to Anchorage from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the spring of 2008. The North Carolina native performs his solo acoustic act regularly in Southcentral Alaska venues and was featured this past summer at the Alaska State Fair and music festivals in Sutton, Kenny Lake and Delta Junction.
Hurricane Dave also organizes benefit “jams” with other Alaska musicians from time to time, including a country-gospel concert in May 2009 that raised money for Kids’ Kitchen, a free-meal program for underprivileged children in Anchorage, and a Country Christmas Jam in December 2008 that benefited the Special Santa program for youngsters in the Mat-Su area. Hurricane Dave’s Country Christmas Jams 2009, which will benefit organizations that distribute Christmas gifts to children in need, are planned for Dec. 12 in Anchorage and Dec. 13 in Palmer or Wasilla. Details are forthcoming.
Dave’s CD, “Bar Stools & Church Pews: Songs for Friday Night & Sunday Morning,” recorded in 2007 for the Big Blue Dolphin label, continues to draw new listeners to his traditional country sound.
“It’s half party songs and half church songs, depending on what you’re in the mood for,” Dave said.
“Please Don’t Ask Me About Her” is not on that album and will be available initially only as a single download. It can be purchased soon from
www.cdbaby.com, iTunes and other Internet sources.
For more information, go to
www.HurricaneDaveMusic.com.
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“Please Don’t Ask Me About Her,” © 2009 Hurricane Dave (BMI)
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