Radio Free David Blog

Notorious LIZ scours high and she scours low and all along the way she turns up some real gems; today is another great pick from her: Skidmore Fountain. Skidmore Fountain is not your typical “rock” band and their sound is a little difficult to describe, but “very good” goes a long way to that end. Skidmore Fountain is made up of Randy Bergida, Steven Cohen, and Dylan Wissing: being Brooklyn based, they’ve played at some awesome NYC venues (CBGBs, Knitting Factory, the Bitter End and Piano’s). Skidmore Fountain is really coming into their sound with Break, their second album. We’re happy to feature the title cut Break in our rotation.

Next up is a great independent artist: Jefferson Hendricks. Jefferson is a storyteller and his songs show that; some happy, some not quite so, but each one will take you through the story and keep you until it is done. Jefferson is all about the music, and that is something we really dig here at Radio Free David; he has a nice balanced sound which is easy to listen to and hard to stop listening to. From his album I Got Questions, we’re happy to add a couple of tracks into our rotation: the title cut I Got Questions and the quirky and fun Sweet Memories.

And finally, we’re happy to add another independent artist into our rotation: George Ellsworth. From his newest album, American Compost (which was loosely inspired by the events of 9/11), we’ve picked up the title cut American Compost (which we really like and would encourage you to pay special attention to the lyrics), the hook filled She’s So Sweet and Madam Freud (from the moment we heard this cut, our toes started tapping and that meant this one had to go in). But what we really like is the liner note Ellsworth provided in this album, and so we’ll leave you with it:

“The cutting edge is not the whole story. What’s vanished is not lost. What gets passed on is the essence, the heart, the spirit, the compost, from which everything grows.” Well said.

As always,
Enjoy!
david

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