”Though making records with the band Dick Smith, I’d not made a “solo” record in 9 years. A song logjam had amassed. Some grew restless and jumped the fence. One was incarcerated. A couple were traded to deckhands for bourbon. A few over-ripened and went bad, others simply went missing. The rest were called to a clandestine meeting and 20 some-odd were randomly selected for service. The others were given lunch and put to simmer, where they patiently await a call to duty…someday…” dr

Dave’s rag-tag band of players and singers drop some great parts into his precisely tattered arrangements. Mournful jubilation.

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Dave Ramont

What you gots here is a flaky guitar, bass and drums crust stuffed with accordion, cello, dobro, mandolin, mincemeat, dulcimer, lap steel, horns, and voices then slow-baked at around 200°. Yep.
Mark Guarino of the Chicago area's Daily Herald says "This album glows with true rootsy beauty ... the finest collection of songwriting I've heard in a long time."

On this collection the skies are a tad darker, the water a smidge colder. Hubcaps and thorazine, carnival hangovers and fever dreams. The moon looks wet and it smells like snow...

The Illinois Entertainer said "...unlike many roots-revivalists, Ramont isn't afraid to mix things up...gorgeously unexpected accordions and cellos pop up on this wonderfully produced CD."

1 scofflaw's serenade
2 festival
3 melody
4 i need a woman that I can get drunk with
5 count the days
6 home
7 eyes
8 orange
9 prison yard
10 $5 song
11 maybe
12 telephone pole (scofflaw's serenade)

Look ma, no hands. Bear witness to the commencing. Folk-rock thang with country sprinkles, recorded low-fi to an eight-track machine.

The Austin Chronicle said "The world could always use another quality singer/songwriter with meaty lyrics, gritty vocals and a tight back up band."

1 tell a hungry man
2 think about everything
3 next time it rains
4 not for one 
5 shallow man
6 comfort me
7 hallways
8 song called love
9 blues so bad
10 unfinished song
11 junk
12 hurricane eye