Artists:Dave Golden

A New York native with family roots in Tennessee, Golden began his music career as a teenager, playing in and composing for bands throughout NYC. Let's see... there was the avant garde jazz combo, the all-percussion ensemble, the jam band, the punk rock outfit, the cabaret, the classical groups...

At 18, Golden's jazz combo won back-to-back awards from Downbeat Magazine and embarked on their first tour, playing spots like the Montreux Jazz Festival where he found himself in the company of greats like Ray Charles, Eric Clapton and BB King. Golden had been launched into an international music career and astonishingly, he opted out. The tour ended and he took a job at a paper mill in Finland. He nearly abandon performing completely, playing only in private for close friends.

In the years that followed, wanderlust would take over, and Golden would find himself in the tango halls of Argentina, on the snow-covered Berkshire border of Vermont and Massachusetts, in the halls of Oxford, in the jungles of Guatemala and even in Asia on a Fulbright.

It was in the Berkshires where Golden rekindled his passion for performance. The city kid was finding a home in the serenity of the wilderness and was quietly schooling himself in the ways of mountain music. The same land that inspired Robert Frost, Norman Rockwell and Herman Melville was reawakening Golden's muse. In late 2004, he wrote a film score for Sometimes the Neighbor, which took 1st Prize at the Pioneer Film Festival. Golden began writing folk and American roots music and later that year earned a Future of Music Scholarship.

In May, he made his debut as a singer/songwriter and catapulted onto the American music scene. Within weeks of his first performance, he had captured the attention of music industry veterans and was being invited to play at summer festivals. "In just a few short months Dave Golden has attracted the industry 'A' list to his door." (Americana Tonight, Nashville)

Over country dreamscapes, Golden's wistful and wise lyrics churn his chosen subjects while always keeping an optimistic eye to the future. Through intimate and inspiring performances, Golden has built a strong following in New York, developed a wide-ranging repertoire of nearly 90 songs, gained fans and acclaim up and down the country and been courted by the industry's most sought after veterans.

In 2005, Golden was in New Orleans finishing hiis debut album, Wake to These Satellites, when disaster struck. The masters were destroyed, the digital backups were fried and the album was gone.

In lieu of Wake To These Satellites, Golden released How To Breathe, a collection of one-takes recorded live in the back of Taylor Davis's tour van, in 2006. How To Breathe, a concept EP that chronicles one moment through the eyes of six different characters, debuted at Number 2 on CD Street's charts and knocked David Crosby out of their Number 1 acoustic position. The release was followed by a tour that included shows with Rufus Wainwright and Amy Rigby.

Dave is back in the studio now, working on his next album as you read this..