Ray's Last Stand
John Trollmann's debut release, Ray's Last Stand, is a concept that began with the title song. "I was riding a bicycle in and around Death Valley thirty years ago," John explains, "when I came upon an outpost on a seldom traveled road run by a lone gentleman selling soft drinks, beer, and trinkets. That image stuck with me and it became the inspiration for the other songs on the CD.
Ray's Last Stand came together with the help of longtime friend and fellow songwriter Gil Dabney.
What It's About...
It's about a whimsical journey through the lone and arid landscape of California and the West;
It's about... dreamers and misfits endless wandering,
It's about...how pie-in-the-sky hopes and dreams live and die;
It's about...places and characters that don't quite fit in; where dreams are hard fought and lost:
It's about...a mountain man who wastes upwards of a lifetime tinkering and plying his time to move a river;
It's about...an aimless prospector and the riches he'll never find;
It's about...a grizzled man who shrugs off the comfort of domestic bliss only to wander in the Sierra Nevada in search of some higher beauty;
It's about...a free spirit who runs a bar in a the most desolate edge of Death Valley, only to proclaim, "...I'd do it again, if I had another chance." Hows that for ambition?
It's about... places that ruminate in the heart, they take up as much space as the horizon itself.
Ray's Last Stand is available from Cdbaby.com and Amazon.com. Mp3 downloads are available from Cdbaby, Amazon, and iTunes.
Or you can get the CD directly at any of my shows.
Click on the links to the right and you will be directed to the purchasing site for Ray's Last Stand.
JOHN TROLLMANN: vocals, acoustic guitar, harp
GIL DABNEY: 12 string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, drums, backing vocals
GRANT MCCORMICK: bass
MARK KLINE: mandolin, fiddle, autoharp, banjo
ALAN DUNN: lap steel guitar on "The Preacher"
LEWIS TINTUT: drums on "The Old Tin Road"
Produced and mixed by Gil Dabney
All songs written by John Trollmann © 2008
