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The second full-length from Jesse LaMonaca and the Dime Novels, The Lament of Tumbleweed Hawk, hits the street on Saturday, February 18, with a release gig at the Casbah.
The thirteen songs feature trumpet, saxophone, banjo, pedal steel, harmonica, violin, upright piano, organ, whistles, congas, handclaps, electric and acoustic guitars, tambourine, and cowbell, as well as guest performances by Brian Holwerda and Jeffrey Lee Hawthorne (aka the Hoth) of Blackout Party, John Meeks, Nena Anderson, Ben Simonetti, Ian Tordella, Rafael Salmon, Brady Alvarez, Joanie Mendenhall, the Big Sombrero, Scott Collins, Arabella Harrison, and members of the MLK Community Gospel Choir.
"We spent the summer recording at Lost Ark Studio in San Diego, and we worked very hard to make an honest record; to focus on the songs and to give them breath and blood," says LaMonaca, who designed the physical release to be packaged as an old dime novel, circa somewheres about 1867.
In addition, a new song “The Deal,” recorded recently at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, is streaming on their SoundCloud page.
Lament of Tumbleweed Hawk release party @ the Casbah, with Blackout Party, the Black Sands, and the Fire Eaters
Saturday, February 18, 9PM, 21+
tickets are $8 advance/$10 day of show
http://casbah.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=64169&eid=72807
“I’m originally from Philly, but I had moved to Sweden to be with a Swedish girl I met,” says LaMonaca. “I lived there for about a year and put a band together and was just starting to get things going when, unfortunately, things fell apart. As often happens with love...I was forced to leave everything I had in Sweden. I came to San Diego with just my guitar and some clothes.”
After LaMonaca’s 2007 arrival in Pacific Beach, the Dime Novels were founded when he played a 2009 solo set in downtown San Diego and recruited several pickup players from the house band to join him onstage for Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay.” They haven’t stopped playing together since.
Their debut album Until The Stars Came Out, was released in June 2010, showcasing their unique Americana soul in a powerful collection of songwriting, melody, and performance that was nominated Best Americana Album at the 2010 San Diego Music Awards. Later that year, with help from family, friends, fans, and eleven sponsors, Jesse went on the Left Coast Sunshine Tour, a solo journey to Australia, playing shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Margaret River, and Fremantle.
In 2011, the group was nominated for Best Americana Band at the San Diego Music Awards.
Here's a video for a tune inspired by his recent self-booked tour of Australia (see http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session/2011/may/26/jesse-lamonacas-first-solo-australian-tour-video-d/ ):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8UJFIL09s
The second full-length from Jesse LaMonaca and the Dime Novels, The Lament of Tumbleweed Hawk, hits the street on Saturday, February 18, with a release gig at the Casbah.
The thirteen songs feature trumpet, saxophone, banjo, pedal steel, harmonica, violin, upright piano, organ, whistles, congas, handclaps, electric and acoustic guitars, tambourine, and cowbell, as well as guest performances by Brian Holwerda and Jeffrey Lee Hawthorne (aka the Hoth) of Blackout Party, John Meeks, Nena Anderson, Ben Simonetti, Ian Tordella, Rafael Salmon, Brady Alvarez, Joanie Mendenhall, the Big Sombrero, Scott Collins, Arabella Harrison, and members of the MLK Community Gospel Choir.
"We spent the summer recording at Lost Ark Studio in San Diego, and we worked very hard to make an honest record; to focus on the songs and to give them breath and blood," says LaMonaca, who designed the physical release to be packaged as an old dime novel, circa somewheres about 1867.
In addition, a new song “The Deal,” recorded recently at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, is streaming on their SoundCloud page.
Lament of Tumbleweed Hawk release party @ the Casbah, with Blackout Party, the Black Sands, and the Fire Eaters
Saturday, February 18, 9PM, 21+
tickets are $8 advance/$10 day of show
http://casbah.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=64169&eid=72807
“I’m originally from Philly, but I had moved to Sweden to be with a Swedish girl I met,” says LaMonaca. “I lived there for about a year and put a band together and was just starting to get things going when, unfortunately, things fell apart. As often happens with love...I was forced to leave everything I had in Sweden. I came to San Diego with just my guitar and some clothes.”
After LaMonaca’s 2007 arrival in Pacific Beach, the Dime Novels were founded when he played a 2009 solo set in downtown San Diego and recruited several pickup players from the house band to join him onstage for Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay.” They haven’t stopped playing together since.
Their debut album Until The Stars Came Out, was released in June 2010, showcasing their unique Americana soul in a powerful collection of songwriting, melody, and performance that was nominated Best Americana Album at the 2010 San Diego Music Awards. Later that year, with help from family, friends, fans, and eleven sponsors, Jesse went on the Left Coast Sunshine Tour, a solo journey to Australia, playing shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Margaret River, and Fremantle.
In 2011, the group was nominated for Best Americana Band at the San Diego Music Awards.
Here's a video for a tune inspired by his recent self-booked tour of Australia (see http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session/2011/may/26/jesse-lamonacas-first-solo-australian-tour-video-d/ ):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8UJFIL09s