David Roy Parsons

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Maple Hills

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Released: Jan 1, 2004

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Maple Hills
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Super Happy Fun Jamboree
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Need To Be A Reason
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Genre: Alternative / Folk / Rock
Location Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Profile Views: 32743
Last Login: 1/31/2012
Member Since 4/11/2005
Website ?20 OF MY SONGS ARE NOW ON ITUNES!
Record Label ?http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/david-roy-parsons/id387729537
Type of Label Indie
Bio
David's life in music began in high school with a punk band, the street corners, and hosting youth drop in centre jams in Ottawa, Ontario. Upon his move to Vancouver in 1997, he and producer John Law went recorded several songs for a first album, and for a publishing deal with the studio. In 2002 David began a music and recovery group for young survivors of traumatic brain injury. The group called Snapped Wires has performed at coffee houses and parties all over Vancouver in recent years. He has now recorded three albums of original material, and most recently released Matters Of Survival in 2oo7. .... .... I have to say that David Roy Parsons is the best new songwriter I've found in the last couple of years. I don't say that lightly. I've played several hundred gigs in about 10 countries in that time. His lyrics remind me of John Donne, and his melodies are undeniable. He's sophisticated and straightforward at the same time, like Hank Williams. If you care about songwriting, don't deny yourself the pleasure of listening to this man..... --Geoff Berner .... .... Devil Skates to Work and If God Drove a Hot Rod .. are but obvious examples of the folksy cleverness at work here ...... Penguin Eggs Winter 2005 Issue on Bottle of Stars album.... Discography.... 1999 Brent Streeper Salt Spring Sessions 1 GSC Records song Easier Every Day.. 2000 David Roy Parsons.. 2000 Andy Mason releases Long Walk Forty Nine with David's single Beat Up Ol' Guitar.. 2002 Snapped Wires COAST heatlth sponsered lower mainland brain injury assoc. project .. 2002 Solidarity Notes david sang bass.. 2004 David Roy Parsons Bottle of Stars.. 2004 Snappedwires 2002 -2004.. 2005 produced and sang on on joey Only's Radical Folk of the Great North.. 2005 Amnesty International Compilation Cd Voices Rising.. 2006 David's song 'Slide In' appears on joey only's Quenel Country Punk Conspiracy.. 2006 Releases David Roy Parsons Super Happy Fun Jambouree Ep.. 2007Matters of Survival released in April.. 2007 Super Happy Fun Fun Jamboree recorded and released by Cottonweed (Rahgu Lokanathan, Jeremy Stewart)
Members
may find me on stage with Joey Only, Tamara Nile, Alexis Puentes, Jordy Walker, Tim Gallup, Andy Mason
Influences
my environment, Ken Whitley, Alexis Puentes, Earl Peach, Joey Only, Bob Dylan,Joni Mitchel, Neil Young, Cole Porter, Tim Harden
Sounds Like
Tom Waits, Lenard Cohen, Beck, Velvet Underground (I'm told), Tim Harden (one of my favourites)