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hello,
Although I could not attend the concert in Charlotte, my parents did and =
my mom made notes so I could feel like I was there. So a big thank you =
to Gloria - she is not on the list, just wanted to let everyone know how =
I got this information. (My parents finally were able to meet David and =
now they know what a great performer and person he is)
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Setlist:
Post Office
Dark and Deep
Flying
hard earned smile - he mentioned playing this for the students in =
Jonesboro Arkansas a few weeks ago
Stupid in Love
new song  - "no time like the present, no present like time" or =
something
blues stuff - with ex camp grier co director
Grey Eagle
Pushin Six - Gene Cotton
Hope
An old hymn
box of wood
In the Light
Song for You
     I was reminded of some trivia when my dad said he bought "hard =
earned smile,"  I told him and I will reveal this information now - in =
case some of you don't know - there is a hidden track on hard earned =
smile.  If your cd player can rewind - push play on the first track and =
then rewind and before the cd starts there is a great solo version of =
post office.
  hopefully this is the first of many setlists to be added to the =
discussion list.
Peace,
Ben
PS - Anna who likes the piano part of hard earned smile - it is the =
multitalented and amazing Chris Rosser, who is also with ISG.  check =
http://www.songs.com/cr/     he sounds a lot like David Wilcox, even has =
wilcox backup a few of his songs - not too shabby

It's impossible for me to pick just one favorite song, but it would have to
be either Drops Like Me (it's fun, and I think it has a great message), Hard
Earned Smile (I especially like the piano part at the end), or All Right,
which helped me get through my first semester of college.  But really, I
like all of his songs, and I like his selection of songs for S.S. Bathtub.
They are definitely not just for kids.

Annie Janzen

Hey everyone!  I'm new to the list, but I notice people are writing
about how they came to know about David and their favorite song, so I
guess I'll share that!  I first heard David perform the summer of 1996
at the Montreat Youth Conference.  He ended his show with "Song for You"
and I knew right then and there that I had to sing that song for my
senior class at graduation.  I contacted Lower Dryad about trying to get
sheet music and got their answering machine.  I left a message and to my
surprise David himself called me back.  The sheet music was not yet
available at the time, but he promised he'd work on it!  Many phone
conversations and a fax later, I had the unofficial sheet music in my
hands!  I got permission and a few friends together, and we sang the
song for my senior class.  The lines which have special significance to
me (and were used as my senior quote!) are "When life is getting me
down, as sometimes it will do, my heart will come back to these
mountains...I'll remember the love we shared and the ways that we grew.
You mean the world to me."  I think it's important to note that I went
to a small all-girls Catholic school set up on a mountain.  I will never
forget how David helped me make my dream come true.  I've seen David
perform once since (now there's a story for another day!) and was able
to thank him in person for all he did for me.

Well I was reading everyones entries on how they met david and I decided I
should subscribe to the list and share how I met him. I as well met him at
Montreat. But at Montreat west in Colorado. We had been on a train for bout 18
hours from Detroit to colorado and we arived late. I was one of the only in the
group who has heard of David before and I knew it was him so I didnt make a big
deal outa it. Everyone else was just talkin to him thinking he was an
instructor. After he helped us take our luggage to our respected dorm rooms some
friends and I played hackey sack with David for awhile under a street light and
lost track of the hackey sack every other minute.Very hard to see one of those
at 10 pm. It was prolly the best way I coulda started off that trip and I forgot
all about the bad train ride. I remember when I later talked to David he signed
my CD. Brian thanks for hacking with me.

My favorite Dave song has to be a tie between Grey Eagle and Butler
Street.  I have a special family connection to the Montreat area just
like Dave does.  His story of the area almost parallels mine.  It is so
cool.  My family has been going there for all of my life.  My family
owns three different houses (mom's parents own one, we own the second,
and my uncle owns the third).  I also like Butler Street alot because I
am from Atlanta, and that's a street in Atlanta.  I  have seen the neon
cross that he is talking about and I kinda feel the same way, that the
Mountains have a presense of God on their own.

Josef

Ok, I would to know what is your favorite song that David performs..I would have
to say that mine is "Alright"..seems to fit my life at the moment.

hey,
David will be in my ex-hometown of Charlotte, NC March 28.  If anyone goes,
how bout a setlist/concert info (also info for any other dates - looks like
he is back in the NC/Va/SC area next couple weeks).  Sad for us living in
Southeast Florida.

Also - just a thought on this sad day:
    "Whites of Their Eyes" by David LaMotte  from In the Light
We live in violent times when
   the reasons don't quite rhyme
We watch the game and we tally up the score
But it's hard to count the cost,
   what's won and who has lost
When honesty is a casualty of war
And it's always been the plan
   of the ones who hold command
To make the other side seem less than real
So we shout about our pride
   and the deaths are justified
And we glorify the ones who do not feel
chorus:
But I say don't fire till you see
   the whites of their eys
Don't fire till you hear
   the truth through the lies
Don't fire till you know the love
   in the heart of a mother's son
Until then, please don't fire your gun

Fireing missiles on command
   we don't have to watch them land
Pushing buttons in a video game war
Watching television screens
   we don't have to hear the screams
But the people are still dying like before

So the graveyards are all filled
   with the ones who have been killed
And the families hear the words
   that they had feared
And we scream that we have won
   while a mother mourns her son
And the battlefield is flooded with her tears
chorus

The generals of all times
   have only fought to rule the minds
Of the people who will make the bullets fly
So the soldiers go and fight
   for what they believe is right
And the ones who give the orders seldom die

So we're left here with a choice:
   will we hide or raise a voice?
Will we fight a war or will we fight for peace?
Cause if there's one thing that I know,
  it's that the presidents won't go
Without the soldiersall the wars will cease

Hey folks,

So here is my story of how I first heard of David. My brother gave me a
copy of In the Light for my birthday about  six years ago, and the rest is
history. I never missed him when he came to play at Presbyterian College,
and I enjoyed seeing his popularity grow over my four years there. I
had friends who worked at Camp Grier, and I became jealous of their being
able to hear David play almost on a weekly basis, but I resigned
myself to enjoying him at PC and on occasional trips to Montreat. Not
only am I drawn to his music but also to the humility that just oozes from
him.

On the topic of covers...I agree that David's music certainly stands on
its own, but who hasn't been drawn to his renditions of pushin' 6 and Ten
Lucky Pennies? Although the covers aren't his originals, they do indeed
tell people of who David is and what he holds important. Let's face
it--the guy just can't be insincere.

Keep listening,
KH

Hi. I first heard of David at a Montreat Youth Conference a few
years ago, when a bunch of people from my group went to his concert but a
few of us rather naively opted to go back to the house just to hang out.
Then everyone came back from the concert and said how good it was, and of
course I wished I had gone.  Fortunately he came back and did a concert the
next summer, and so I got to hear him then.  I loved the music, bought a CD,
and have been a big fan ever since.  I am going to be working at Montreat
this summer and I really hope that I'll get to hear him in concert again.
I'm from Kansas, so I pretty much have to go someplace else if I'm going to
hear him live.  By the way, I think this list is a great idea!

	 Annie Janzen

While we're correcting things, I broke my ankle in June of this "past" year,
not this year.  If I could predict the future, I wouldn't have stepped in that
hole!

Just thought that I would add my David story.  Like many of you guys, I
first heard David at Montreat.  I think it was five or six years ago.  My
friend and I were playing guitar outside the Huckleberry.  This long haired,
hippy looking fellow (David, of course) came over and sat quietly for a
while, just listening to us.  My friend was trying to work on a song he had
been creating all week.  David started talking to us, said how much he like
the song,  and made a few suggestions to my friend and then played a couple
songs for us.  Needless to say, we were blown away.  We went to hear David
that night and I have been a fan ever since.  I was a small group leader at
Montreat this summer and also do several other camps for High School
students.  I use David's music with the kids, especially "Song for You,"
David's cover of "We Are Each Other's Angels," and "Butler Street."  They
love it, and by the end of the week, there are no dry eyes.  As for my
friend from the Huckleberry, he is now the guitarist/ lead singer in a great
acoustic rock band called Almost Steve who play all over South Carolina.
The song whe was writing that week is now the opening number on their debut
album.  Funny how life is so interconnected.  Loved all of your stories.
Hope to hear more.

Matt

Like many of you my introduction to David's music included
Montreat.  My sister worked on staff several summers in the past and
came home with a few CD's.  Around the same time I was also hearing him
at Camp Grier Where Ben and Bethan first heard him.  Many of his songs
have always touched my heart because the talk about some of the most
important things in my life.  Along with his song writing and
musicianship, I have also been amazed at his personability.  So there's
my story about meeting David's music.
Peace,
Matt
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I just wanted to correct my last post. In Feb 99 David returned to the club and
I begged to work. Just wanted ya'll to know that he didn't beg to work!!!!!

I heard David at the Montreat Youth Conference & just fell in love with his
music.  I also have had him perform for my congregation.  A great musician &
all around great guy!!

My brother owns a club in Salem, VA and booked David last year and I had to
work. I was captivated by his storytelling. In Feb of 99 he returned and begged
to work! He is returning April 16 to play for us again and it is my birthday, I
didn't know until recently that he was coming on that date, my brother booked
him as my birthday present! This time though I am taking the night off to be a
paying fan.

Hi.  This is how I learned of Dave's music.  Two summers ago, I worked
on the Montreat Summer Staff  in Anderson  Auditorium.  I worked on the
A/V crew, which is responsible for running lights and sound and music
for whatever goes on in Anderson Auditorium.  Plus, that crew delivers
TV's, VCR's, and other electroics to places in Montreat wherever and
whenever they need it.  Anyways, during one of the youth conferences, I
was scheduled to do sound for Dave's concert.  This was the first time I
had heard his music, so at this point I started to become slighlty
interested.  After the show, Dave, three others, and I sat around on the
Anderson Auditorium stage and talked (and jammed) until 1:00 AM   (the
show had ended at about 11:00 PM).  When I was leaving at 1:OO, I told
Dave that I would be at his concert one week later, for the next youth
confrence.  So, I was there for that second show.  THis time I didn't
have to work, so I sat close to the front so I could pay more
attention.  By the 2nd or 3rd song I was captivated.  I began to cry
when he sang Grey Eagle, because I have close connections to Montreat
and Black mountain in a similar fashion that Dave does.  Before leaving
that week, I think I bought $40 or $50 worth of "Dave stuff".  I try and
go and see him whenever I can, but because of college stuff I have not
been able to go the past few times.  But whenever i can go, I hang
around at the end of the show and speak with Dave.  It is really cool
because he always remembers me.  Once during the youth conference last
summer he came up to the house that my youth group was staying in.  So
anyways, that's how I heard of David LaMotte and his music.


The people who run the Grey Eagle have found a place closer to
Asheville.  I don't know if it is open now, or anything else about it.
I am very eager to find out about it though.  However, In black
Mountain, there is the Green Light Cafe (i think that's right), which I
is a small cafe with a stage, Dave plays there sometimes.


Josef Henschen

My daughter and her best friend heard David at Montreat 3 or 4 yrs ago.  She
brought home a CD, and almost wore out the "Song for You" track!  David
personally helped her get the music so they could sing it at her high school
graduation.  Last spring, I heard that David was going to do a concert nearby,
and got tickets as a surprise for my daughter and her best friend.  I went
along, and really liked his music too, particularly his version of "We Are
Each Other's Angels."

In June of this year, I was in Venice with my husband on a business trip, and
fell and broke my ankle rather badly.  I needed surgery right away, and
speaking only tourist Italian, was having a bad time making decisions.  The
doctors spoke tourist English!  My angel appeared in the form of a man
studying to be a nursing assistant, only on the orthopedic floor for six
weeks, who spoke fluent English.  Talk about "we meet when it is time!"  With
his help, I was able to get thru the medical history, xrays, tests, surgery
and week in the hospital.  I shared the song with him, and it brought tears to
his eyes.  Thanks again, David!

Hi.  I figured I'd start off with my how I learned of David story.  Last
summer I worked at the Montreat Conference Center.  The whole staff went
to hear David's concert in the park in Black Mountain.  So that's how I
first heard of him.  I really became a fan due to events following.  I
bought a couple of cd's at the park.  In the confusion of huge numbers of
fans buying things, I left my credit card.  David called our house and
said I should try to get it from him at the Grey Eagle, but we missed each
other.  A few days later, he called to say he was in Montreat.  He brought
the credit card to our house, and sat on the porch and chatted with
Montreat summer staffers (he was once one himself).  What a great guy,
huh!  So anyway, I heard him play several more times last summer, at the
Grey Eagle, which has since closed.  I'm returning to Montreat this
summer, and I'm hoping there will be a place in Black Mountain for him to
play.  Anybody know anything?  So, that's my story. I'd love to hear
everyone else's.  I'm really excited about this list.  It's great to talk
about such great music from such a great guy.

Liz Sudduth

hey,
just wanted to let everyone know that if you go to onelist and login you can
check on the lists you are a member of and then "view archives, post message,
add or look at bookmarks(i have added some), and check out member profiles." 
The shared files thing is if we want to make a webpage or post lyrics or
setlists or something. So if ya'll have an opinion on the shared files list let
me know.  The discussion this week has been cool, let's also here how people
learned of David.  For Bethan and I it was Camp Grier, in the NC mountains near
Asveville/Black Moutain/Montreat.
Peace,
Ben - moderator
PS - we are now at 19 subscribers, good stuff for not more than 2 weeks.

Kristen..thanks for liking my address..As for David doing Chuck Brodsky's songs
I think that David could do them all. Chuck plays in the club that I work in
once a month. He is a great guy and his songs are wonderful. I have heard his
version and Davids version of We are Each Others Angels and have to say that I
prefer Davids. I noticed that when Chuck sings the song he does change the words
just a little.
I do appreciate that when David covers other peoples songs he never forgets to
add at the end of the song the person who wrote it, that makes a big impression
on me. I have seen to many muscians who take the credit away.

bethan's thoughts:  i definitely agree that david's songs stand on their own,
but part of why i love live performances is the nuggets you get of what's not on
cd's: unreleased songs, covers, & stories in-between songs. i'm also always
curious to see who inspired the musicians i love, & i feel it's a gift when a
musician shares this with the audience. but as important, i feel, is when the
singer/songwriter further educates the audience about the music genre. if not
for david, it would have taken me longer to discover folks like gene cotton or
john gorka, both of whom i enjoy. actually, hearing david play at the town pump
in '91 was my introduction not only to his music & him as a person, but to
today's folk music scene... but that's another story.  :-)

peace,
bethan

I've been listening to David for about 6.5 years now.  Give hime a chance.
He really doesn't need to do covers, because he has such a brilliant mind!
The way he uses words is amazing.  Best of luck on your tours, David!

Beth    NFL

KingstonPC:  there are song sheets with everyhing for Song for you and
New lullabye that are for sale  on Dave's website.  I think some of the
songs on Hard Earned Smile have either tunings and or chord progressions
written in with the lyrics to the songs.

Josef

I agree with Kristen that it is interesting to see what covers artists
choose to perform.  You get the chance to see what music interests them.  I
would like to see David cover some Simon and Garfunkel or, since he would
have difficulty harmonizing by himself, at least some Paul Simon.  I also
love to hear "Cat's in the Cradle."  Perhaps, since I'm in the St. Patty's
Day mood today, some Irish folk songs, accent optional.

What a great idea!!  I was wondering if anyone has tried to work out chord
progressions for David's songs.  I play guitar, and would love to see David's
music transcribed.

Phil

I love it when anyone covers Chuck Brodsky's "We Are Each Other's Angels" and
David's version is lovely.  I also like "Ten Lucky Pennies" off the children's
record.
While I agree with frolicwme (GREAT address by the way!!:)) that he doesn't need
to do covers, I'm always interested in the covers that artists choose to do. 
It's fun to see what speaks to them from other writers.

I am not sure that I would like to hear David do cover songs. But I guess if I
had to choose cover songs I would pick from James Taylor's music (isn't that
typical!!!). But I still say he really does not need cover songs, his music can
stand all by itself.

hey - less than 2 weeks old and 11 people - pretty good stuff.
how bout this to get people talking:
  Cover songs - two different types -
ones that he has done and ones that you would like to see done.
I will keep a running tally and post it when necessary.
just to start - Covers seen:
John Gorka - Gravyland, Branching Out
Gene Cotton - Shine On, Me and the Elephant, Pusin Six
Kermit - Rainbow Connection
Chet Powers - Let's Get Together
(and the ones on the cds of course)
etc. I could go on but want to hear other people.

Covers I would like to see(he may have done these, but I have not seen):
John Lennon - imagine
CSN - Teach your children
The house at pooh corner by ? (this last one suggested by Bethan)

hope this starts some discussion.
Peace.
Ben
(Good luck to David in Arkansas this week - look out for Ken Starr!)

I am so glad to see this. What a wonderful idea. I hope it takes off for you. I
have enjoyed David's music for about a year now. I never knew he existed untill
my brother booked him for a gig in his club. I have been a huge fan ever since.
Best of luck in this new venture.

Hi folks,  I'm Kathy LaMotte, David's sister, friend, booking agent/
publicist/ manager, etc., pretty much in that order.  Glad to have you
aboard.  We're excited about the list, and are grateful to Ben.  I've
subscribed but probably won't have much to say unless there are questions
or wild rumors which need addressing!  (Some folks think David has gotten
married when they see my name.  Nope!)  =)  Thanks for your support of
David, and for keeping the music alive!  The following is a note to "all
y'all" from David.  Looking forward to the conversation!  --Kathy

<<Hey,

Welcome to the discussion list.  I appreciate your interest in my music, and
hope you will enjoy the conversations.  My friend Ben Senn came up with the
idea, and I'm grateful to him for taking the initiative and also for being
willing to moderate it.

It's named TheDryad, after the house I lived in up on one of the mountains
surrounding Montreat NC during the summer of 1990.  While I lived there I made
the decision to commit myself to music and it turned out to be a pretty big
corner in my life.  The Dryad is a small, musty two-story house on a pretty
steep incline,  so that the little porch on one side looks pretty directly
into the tops of some trees below.  I lived in the lower half of it, and my
friend Lisa lived upstairs.  It was a comfortable and inviting place to be for
that summer and when I write about it now, I think of late night conversations
and good books and that were shared there.   Wish I could invite you over.  :)
When I formed my little record label and publishing company I decided to call
it Lower Dryad Music, and when Ben brought up the idea of this list it seemed
like a good idea to call it The Dryad.  By the way, in Greek mythology a dryad
is a tree spirit or the spirit of a woods.  That seems to work pretty well
with acoustic music.  There you have it.

So welcome again.  I don't know how many or few will be interested in this,
but I hope y'all will enjoy each other's company.  In the interest of not
getting too self-absorbed I won't be on the list, but I appreciate your
wanting to be.  And thanks, as always for your support, and for taking the
time to listen.

Wishing you peace,

David  >>



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Lower Dryad Music
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