Musicians on "Just Let Me Dream" (besides Nancy K. Dillon) are:
~ Michael Hill (Slobberbone/12LBTest/Nancy Boys)
~ Clive Gregson (Richard Thompson/Gregson & Collister)
~ Stacy Phillips (Grammywinnin' Dobro picker/Mel Bay author)
~ John Reischman (Tony Rice/Good Ol' Persons/Jaybirds)
~ Paul Elliott (Michelle Shocked/Alison Brown)
~ Paula Walters (Ranch Romance/Hank Williams Revue)
~ Jeff Simmons (Frank Zappa/Shimmering Guitars)
~ Max Paul Schwennsen (Doug Kershaw/Atlanta Rhythm Section)
~ Murl Allen Sanders (Etta James/Merilee Rush)
~ Chris Leighton (Laura Love/Bachman Turner Overdrive)
~ John Nelson (Diversions/The Air Streams)
~ Mike Bristow (Hows Bayou/Nancy Boys)
~ Jay Weaver (Hows Bayou/Nancy Boys)
~ Garey Shelton (BB King/James Brown/HiFi w/Iain Matthews)
~ Keith Lowe (Fiona Apple/Bill Frisell)
Please seek out their music ~ these folks are just amazing!
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Influences
Kevin Welch ~ Lucinda Williams ~ Buddy & Julie Miller ~ Jimmy Webb ~ Clive Gregson ~ Charles Sawtelle ~ Stevie Nicks ~ Wanda Jackson ~ Hank Williams ~ John Hiatt ~ John Hadley ~ Phil Sampson ~ Van Morrison ~ Patty Griffin ~ Maxine Sullivan ~ Irma Thomas ~ Patsy Cline ~ Townes Van Zandt ~ The Medicine Park All-Boy Derelict Band ~ Jim White ~ Bob Wills ~ Route 66 ~ Eliza Gilkyson ~ The Band ~ Leon Russell ~ Blue Rose Cafe ~ Red Dirt ~ Tish Hinojosa ~ Holy Modal Rounders ~ Sacred Harp ~ Country Gazette ~ Jimmy LaFave ~ Bob Childers ~ Ron Davies ~ Roger Tillison ~ The Magnetic Fields ~ Jayhawks ~ Dave Alvin ~ John Trudell
Here's what some reviewers had to say - I'd love to hear what you think ... NKD
"Very much in the Kasey Chambers and Lucinda Williams school of rootsy singer-songwriters, Nancy K. Dillon stands out as a new original talent."
~ Alan Cackett - Maverick Magazine (UK)
"An impressive 'O Susanna' is an almost Fleetwood Mac ballad."
~ Melissa Wabnitz - Norman Transcript (OK)
"JLMD is accomplished, mature and soulful and NKD is a real standout amongst the ranks of roots based acoustic artists out there at the moment - file alongside early Lucinda or perhaps Kasey Chambers."
~ Mark Phillips - Americana UK
"Real people making honest music..."
~Holly Estrella del Dia - Roots Highway
Hola ! Welcome to my little patch of 'Space here on the Tallgrass Ranchette.... thanks for stopping in... make yourself at home. That's how it was done in my tiny hometown ! It's the Okie way I guess. Come on in... have a seat on the front porch swing... or help yourself to a glass of lemonade or iced tea if you want to... it's over there in the frig. You can hear the trains passing every so often. I enjoy talking about music the most but also about dreams signs and memories, interesting books & movies - what you are up to - where you've been - where any of us are going !
I love the the way that music connects people and I love how being here in 'Space makes my world so much bigger. I've met wonderful people, some of my music heros & launched an intergalactic recording career !! :-) This is *way* too much fun !
I tend to change my clothes alot (& my profile pic !) and like to rotate some of my 'top friend' slots to include new discoveries, long-lost pals & anything I come across that strikes my fancy !
I hope you'll drop by often...
~ NKD ~
New CD to be released in 2009 ("Roses Guide To Time Travel") ~
Watch this space ;-)
Official stuff:
BIO:
Avant guarde Folk/Americana artist Nancy K. Dillon grew up 6 blocks from Route 66 in Oklahoma City, OK and is steadily making a name for herself. Upon the release of her 2004 debut CD “Just Let Me Dream” Nancy was hailed by respected UK country music journalist, Alan Cackett (Maverick-UK) as an “original new talent” mining a musical vein akin to Lucinda Williams or Kasey Chambers. Dillon is a gifted singer and an award-winning songwriter. She masterfully weaves the textures and rhythms of American folk and country music into mythic road stories of small town claustrophobia, surreal euphoria and latter-day vagabonds traveling America’s byways threading through the vistas and horizons of a sprawling American West.
Descended from an Irish Mason employed by the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Scots/English Indian Territory evangelists and circuit-riding preachers, Dillon was born on the plains of Oklahoma during the second Dust Bowl. Immediately upon acquiring a formal education, she hit the road without so much a plan as a desire to accumulate as many varied experiences and memories as possible. These included a 1980 circumnavigation of the globe in 80 days, crisscrossing the western United States in a 1966 yellow Rambler American singing along with Emmy Lou & Linda Ronstadt records and jobs as a computer operator of IBM behemoths, administrator of a University of Oklahoma Indian Housing research project, photographer’s model and keypuncher for a Seattle race-car parts company. All the while she pursued her musical dreams performing in bands and on others' recordings until she began writing and performing her own original songs at the turn of the century releasing her debut solo CD Just Let Me Dream on July 8, 2004.
Since its release, Just Let Me Dream has received many accolades and generated a continuing buzz, international radio airplay, song contest honors and landing on several “Best of…” lists. Hailed as “accomplished, mature and soulful”, the CD has a sparkling windswept sound captured by Grammy-winning engineer Garey Shelton (The Believers/Danny Barnes/Rachel Harrington). Nancy co-produced the album with Austin, TX-based songwriter/guitarist Michael Hill (Slobberbone/12 Lb Test). The album features virtuoso performances by Hill as well as John Reischman (Tony Rice/Jaybirds), Paul Elliott (Michelle Shocked/Alison Brown) and Grammy-winner Stacy Phillips (Dobro). Brit-folk rocker, Clive Gregson (Any Trouble/Gregson & Collister) makes a stunning cameo appearance on backup vocals and a searing solo at the end of the title track. John Conquest (Third Coast Music) observes, “Hints of honky tonk, Tex-Mex and cowboy music, intertwined with bluegrass, country, gospel and traditional folk, make this a true Americana album that could easily have come out of Austin.”
Nancy sings about escaping her native red dirt Oklahoma on the opening track of Just Let Me Dream. She may have left town but she is still the girl who grew up in Oklahoma City six blocks from Route 66. “You can leave Oklahoma” she says, “but Oklahoma never leaves you. I go there as often as I can. The land and the people deeply inspire me. My hope is to infuse my songs and sound with a feeling of that red dirt, spaciousness and the simplicity and drama of the elements." A subtle sweetness inhabits Nancy's voice that makes it instantly appealing. You can hear the wind in her voice. Sometimes you can taste the dust, too, and feel the hot summer sun. "I grew up in an extraordinary musical environment,” Dillon says. “My dad is a composer of modern classical music who played in a big band jazz orchestra on weekends. In between all of that he was a Professor of Music at the University of Central Oklahoma and directed the church choir. My mother sang her favorite hymns around the house and taught vocal music in Arkansas before I was born. Then I moved to Norman OK where I was exposed to The Band-inflected sounds of home-town favorites, Red Dirt and the harmony-drenched good-time blues-folk-rock of "The Medicine Park All-Boy Derelict Band". Last but not least, country-folk-rockers Blue Rose Cafe (led by Pat Long & Kevin Welch) completed my Oklahoma honky-tonk education. I was truly blessed to stand at the feet of some unbelievably good songwriters and become steeped in a song-writing lineage best known as 'red dirt music'....earthy & authentic"
Dillon currently tours the US and is based in the Pacific NW. A former folk radio programmer at KBCS/Seattle, Nancy was also a founding member of renowned “cowchick” band Ranch Romance and performed in a duo with Rounder recording artist, John Miller. It’s the Oklahoma “Red Dirt” sound though that evokes Dillon’s muse most powerfully — then her warm soulful voice polishes that raw earthiness until it gleams and sparkles like fire in fine jewelry. Listen to her music and see if you don't agree.
New CD to be released in 2009 ("Roses Guide To Time Travel") ~ Watch this 'Space ;-)
VARIOUS STUFF:
o 2nd Place Winner ~ 2007 Tumbleweed Song Contest ~ "Time Travelers Lament"
o "O Susanna" ~ received a 9.9 rating (out of 10) by listeners to Fiddles & Frets
o "Just Let Me Dream" ~ Top 50 on Roots Music Report Folk Chart ~ April 2007
o "O Susanna" ~ Top 20 on Acoustic Pie Radio ~ July & December 2006/April 2007 (6!)
o "Almost To Idaho" ~ Richard Gillmann's Favorite Folk Tracks ~ November 2006
o Finalist, 2006 Tumbleweed Song Contest ~ "Good Old Friends"
o Finalist, 2005 Tumbleweed Song Contest ~ "Almost To Idaho"
o Finalist, 2004 Tumbleweed Song Contest ~ "The Ballad of Mabel Dodge"
o "Best NW Artists/Folk CD" ~ July 2004 ~ KBCS 91.3FM Seattle
o Top 10 ~ American ROOTS Radio ~ Boston, MA ~ July 2004
o "2004 Top Albums & Songs ~ Folk Music Radio Airplay Chart
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SOME OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES:
"To Nancy ~ who knows more than a little about making musical magic!"
~ Clay Eals, Author ~ "Steve Goodman: Facing The Music"
"Very much in the Kasey Chambers and Lucinda Williams school of rootsy singer-songwriters, Nancy K. Dillon stands out as a new original talent."
~ Alan Cackett - Maverick Magazine (UK)
"We were treated to moments of pure magic. I know I keep saying this is why I do house concerts, but this is why I do house concerts. Wow. "
~ Nolan Pepperdine ~ Olalla House Concerts
"The fancy term for Dillon's kind of writing is mythopoeia."
"The astonishing 'Nothing in Texas' is the most beautiful '60s-soul slow dance ever to wear denim."
~ Tom Peterson - Victory Review
"All the pretty América is in your fingers and in your voice.
Compliment, Jean-Claude"
~ Jean-Claude's MySpace Comment ~ Amnésia - La comedie musicale ~ France
“If I could sing like that, I wouldn’t bother much with instruments!”
Stacy Phillips (Grammy Award-Winning Dobroist)
"Surreal euphoria and small town claustrophobia..."
~ Holly Estrella del Dia - Roots Highway
"The confessional dial is turned down several notches - much is evoked and implied rather than simply on display for all to see."
~ Mark Phillips - Americana UK
"Hints of honky tonk, Tex-Mex and cowboy music, intertwined with bluegrass, country, gospel and traditional folk, make this a true Americana album that could easily have come out of Austin."
~ John Conquest - Third Coast Music
"A really fine album of singer/songwriter fare with a bit of an old-timey feel in spots. I like this CD a lot. The songs are well-written, tuneful and intelligent."
~ Greg Grant - Online Folk Festival
"Oklahoma native Nancy K. Dillon's roots are clearly cemented in the Red Dirt State."
~ Melissa Wabnitz - Norman Transcript (OK)
"Thank you very much for sending me your more than beautiful release. I've enjoyed listening to your great songs and music and I will give your disc regular airplay, because you're damn good!"
~ Raymond & Theo - Radio ATL - Belgium
Yup - Karen Mason takes great pics :) Lovely to see you too, my Dear. I'm sure I'll see you again real soon. In the meantime, I'm home with my Rx cough med with codeine. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
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