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Brendan Gamble - Heartless Moon

Artist: Brendan Gamble Title: Heartless Moon Catalog#: Mud-CD-048 Price: $10.00	Tracks on this CD:
	Heartless Moon
	Lion's Share
	Skipping Rocks
	Looking For Margrett
	I Don't Need December
	Through Through
	This Never Stops
	Gone To Seed
	Will Of Your Heart
	Rested
	Ways To Walk
	True To A Lie
	Now

It’s been suggested that it’s difficult for content artists to make great albums. There has to be some pain involved. If so, Brendan Gamble’s Heartless Moon is on its way to classic status. During the breakup of his marriage to a fellow bandmate and creative partner, Gamble wrote twenty–seven songs influenced by the mood of his divorce. These thirteen songs are the document of that time. Though Gamble highlights the title track as his favorite on the album - mainly because of the color added by cornet player Steve Lamos – other song titles including “This Never Stops,” “Gone to Seed,” and “True to a Lie” hint at the horizon-wide acoustic folk pop songs, set adrift in some dire emotional straits, that appear on Heartless Moon.

Though Gamble’s previous recording experiences were in a band setting it’s obvious that the songs on Heartless Moon dictated a more solitary approach. Once Gamble “wrote the songs until they were done” he followed the production path of one of his bands’ previous producers, Grammy Award winner Trina Shoemaker, who advised stripping down the instrumentation to the core of the song. Gamble recorded his guitar and lead vocal together live to tape, and duplicated that approach on the two songs that feature drums.

The sound of Gamble’s earlier bands – Poster Children, Moon Seven Times – has nothing to do with the songs on Heartless Moon. Singer-songwriters that transcend that “Singer Songwriter” genre like Nick Drake, Steve Goodman and Jackson Browne were Gamble’s solo artist inspiration for these song arrangements. The catharsis begins here…