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Track Listing
1. Hang on to This
2. Fighting With Clay
3. Days in Our Lives
4. Die Born
5. Best of Life
6. Dirty Road
7. Where Are You?
8. Never Drown
9. Words
10. Once Again
11. Giving In
12. Dancing With the Wind
| Details | | Producer: | Ron Aniello | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Days Of The New: Travis Meeks (vocals, guitar); Mike Huettig (bass); Ray Rizzo (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel includes: Ron Aniello (keyboards); Rob Edwards (percussion); Sammy Anderson, Raymond Noah III, Fred Blaney, John Ray, Admiral Blaney, Mauriece Hamilton (background vocals).
Producers: Ron Aniello, Travis Meeks, Bill Klatt.
Engineers: Bill Klatt, Eric Sarafin, Joseph Castriota.
Recorded at Distillery Sound Studios, Louisville, Kentucky.
After flying solo on his sophomore effort following the departure of his bandmates to found Tantric, tortured and introspective Travis Meeks reshaped Days Of The New into a power trio in sync with his considerably expanded musical palette. Meeks continues to wield the acoustic guitar like a percussion instrument, and his maturation as a songwriter has taken him from mere teen anxieties to complex sensitivities on cuts like the heartfelt "Die Born" and "Once Again," with its declaration of emotional sacrifice made over a bed of fleet-fingered guitar.
Rest assured, Meeks has not become a musical Iron John whacking away on a drum in the woods. The Louisville native still possesses a howl that's as passionate as his playing and comes across nicely on the Middle Eastern-flavored "Giving In," the pounding, Alice In Chains-inspired "Hang On To This," and the molten strut of "Fighting With Clay." Elsewhere, Meeks takes a page out of the Metallica book of musical dichotomy by infusing strings amidst the dark hues of "Dirty Road" before going further and incorporating a full orchestra and chorus and suite-like structure into the adventurous "Dancing with the Wind." A most impressive effort from one of hard rock's true iconoclasts.
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