Deep Water by Allan Thomas

Making good on his promise of releasing at least one album of original material each decade Allan gives us 'Deep Water'. With the generous help of over twenty-one stellar musicians playing in top form, we find songs ranging in territory from 'The Longest Ride' - a tribute to fallen surfer Andy Irons, featuring backing vocals by David Crosby & Graham Nash, to ‘The Downturn’ - a tongue-in-cheek take on the current state of economic mayhem. The record also features several character-driven compositions, among them ‘Other Than That’ - a vocal and drums only litany on the worst aspects of some people we all know, set to a late ’50′s jazz groove, and the wizened and weary weed smuggler confessional in the searing rock-blues 'Monkey Business'. The many facets of romance are not forgotten with a first-time studio rendering of the 1979 AT classic ‘Fall In Love Too Easy’, and a ballad that endeavors to sum it all up in ‘It All Comes Down To Love’, among others. Besides the usual highly-skilled cast of AT bandmates, the record features such luminaries as David Crosby and Graham Nash, plus members of the Bonnie Raitt, Neil Young, James Taylor, Van Morrison, CSN and Yellowjackets bands. The album contains 12 songs that span time from as recent as the summer of 2011 - to 'Homegrown' written in 1976. If you like the music of Sting, Steely Dan, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, The Yellowjackets, Donald Fagen and Marc Cohn you may enjoy this record. ℗ 2011 Allan Thomas