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August 17, 2016

Rapid River: David LaMotte celebrates 25 years with ‘The Other Way Around’

Rapid River Magazine published this article about David’s new album and the release concert that will launch it:

Internationally known Black Mountain songwriter David LaMotte celebrates 25 years as a professional musician with the release of a new album, The Other Way Around. LaMotte and a large backing band will mark the occasion with a Release Concert and Celebration on Friday, September 2, 8pm, at the Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville. The Other Way Around is a collection of twelve songs reflecting the last decade of David’s life journey, which has literally taken him around the world.

On this, his 12 album, LaMotte explores new musical territory through collaboration with musicians from six continents, representing genres from blues to bluegrass, from jazz to gospel to Southern rock. Some of the songs are inflected with Latin, African, Middle Eastern, Indian and Appalachian influences and instruments. Representing most of that cultural spread, 15 musicians, play on one track alone, Drink Deeply. “It’s an ambitious project,” LaMotte says. “It’s like we’re preparing the most delicious meal we can create, with the ingredients and spice racks of the whole world in our kitchen.”

In the 10 years since LaMotte’s most recent album, he has earned a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Resolution in Australia and published his third book, Worldchanging 101: Challenging the Myth of Powerlessness. Informed by that side of LaMotte’s work, his song You May Do That, a haunting, piano-based ballad, is built around a quotation from Rosa Parks. Give God the Blues stakes out the rock’n’roll corner of the record’s wide boundaries, featuring Ed King of Lynyrd Skynyrd on lead guitar. Musicians from India, Senegal, Brazil, Germany, Uganda, Canada, Guatemala, and Australia contribute to the global sound of the record, as well.

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  1. Pat Heran says

    September 1, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    So excited about your new album…would love to purchase a copy. I had the privilege of enjoying your performance at the 2013 Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry at Saint Simons Island, GA – Epworth by the Sea conference center. I was the conference coordinator working for the Institute for Youth Ministry, Princeton Theological Seminary.
    I have since retired and live in Saint Simons Island, GA.

    Congratulations on your new album.

    Warmest regards,

    Pat Heran

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    • David LaMotte says

      September 20, 2016 at 11:03 am

      Thanks so much, Pat! It’s finally out, and if you would like to get a copy, you can do so here: https://www.davidlamotte.com/product/the-other-way-around/

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