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fradale.d is david leone, producer/songwriter in nashville. I co-write and co-produce songs with other nashville song-writers to create music that can be traditional or alternative. What I find most interesting are songs that tell a story and defy categorization.
I've had songs recorded by the following artists:Review of "Carla Came Home" from Chris Knight's The Jealous Kind:
The best track on the LP is the next track, “Carla Came Home†written by Knight and David Leone. The track sounds like “North Dakota†off “A Pretty Good Guy†with heavy fiddle influence and a driving acoustic syncopation. But upon close listen of the song, it becomes a bleak narration of a justified murder that is so often the storyline in Knight’s songs (i.e. “Down the Riverâ€, “Framedâ€). The song is written perfectly with a unique meter, and several techniques often used in classic literature such as alliteration, and parallelism (“Carla came home in the middle of the night/ sunglasses on and tears in her eyes/ Carla came home, but not just for Christmas timeâ€).From review of Chris Knight's "Pretty Good Guy" which includes two of my songs:
"Oil Patch Town," is an elegiac anthem to the crazy innocence of high school glory days that weren't so glorious. Knight's brutal; he doesn't paint anything romantically or make it darker than it has to be. He understands the power of both country and rock & roll to carry the message as long as the message is pure, simple, and direct. He doesn't get in the way, and therefore is a hell of a storyteller.
The way Baird and Knight use fiddles and banjos in tracks like "North Dakota" brings back the feeling of the Band's gothic Americana with Garth Hudson serving as multi-instrumentalist.
Video of "That's a Plan"