David's life in music began in high school with a punk band, the street corners, and hosting youth drop in centre jams in Ottawa, Ontario. Upon his move to Vancouver in 1997, he and producer John Law went recorded several songs for a first album, and for a publishing deal with the studio. In 2002 David began a music and recovery group for young survivors of traumatic brain injury. The group called Snapped Wires has performed at coffee houses and parties all over Vancouver in recent years. He has now recorded three albums of original material, and most recently released Matters Of Survival in 2oo7.
I have to say that David Roy Parsons is the best new songwriter I've found in the last couple of years. I don't say that lightly. I've played several hundred gigs in about 10 countries in that time. His lyrics remind me of John Donne, and his melodies are undeniable. He's sophisticated and straightforward at the same time, like Hank Williams. If you care about songwriting, don't deny yourself the pleasure of listening to this man.
--Geoff Berner
Devil Skates to Work and If God Drove a Hot Rod .. are but obvious examples of the folksy cleverness at work here ..
Penguin Eggs Winter 2005 Issue on Bottle of Stars album
Discography
1999 Brent Streeper Salt Spring Sessions 1 GSC Records song Easier Every Day
2000 David Roy Parsons
2000 Andy Mason releases Long Walk Forty Nine with David's single Beat Up Ol' Guitar
2002 Snapped Wires COAST heatlth sponsered lower mainland brain injury assoc. project
2002 Solidarity Notes david sang bass
2004 David Roy Parsons Bottle of Stars
2004 Snappedwires 2002 -2004
2005 produced and sang on on joey Only's Radical Folk of the Great North
2005 Amnesty International Compilation Cd Voices Rising
2006 David's song 'Slide In' appears on joey only's Quenel Country Punk Conspiracy
2006 Releases David Roy Parsons Super Happy Fun Jambouree Ep
2007Matters of Survival released in April
2007 Super Happy Fun Fun Jamboree recorded and released by Cottonweed (Rahgu Lokanathan, Jeremy Stewart)
