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Dom -- Music for the Troops

About Me


Hi! My name is Dom, and I'm a musician living in southern New Jersey. You can visit my primary MySpace profile to hear more of my music.
I made this alternate profile to showcase a special project I undertook to create and record "new, original folk music for the American soldier." This profile will only be used for spreading the word about this particular five-song collection.
All the people who contributed to this undertaking are listed in the "Band Members" section. Some background on the songs is in "Influences", and the "Sounds Like" block contains what some others have said about the music.
As you can also see, I have some information here about purchasing CDs and digital downloads. Rest assured, I'm not getting wealthy from all this. Hundreds of copies of the CD have already been donated to Soldiers' Angels of Delaware to be included in care packages to active-duty troops. Another 50 copies went to the Millville (N.J.) Army Air Field Museum for its Veterans' Appreciation Day and for its gift shop to help raise funds for the museum. Your purchases help offset the cost of providing CDs to these and future worthy causes.
If you represent a military organization and would like information about obtaining copies of this CD to help with your fundraiser, contact me at [email protected] to discuss. I'm glad to make arrangements for my music to be used to help soldiers, veterans and their families.
Thanks for listening to these five special songs, and an extra thanks to anyone visiting this page who serves or has served in the U.S. military.
For all other information about my music, including my calendar of performances, see my official website or hop over to the main MySpace page.

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Music:

Member Since: 05/09/2007
Band Website: www.domrocks.com
Band Members: PERFORMANCE CREDITS (click names to visit each member's main MySpace Music profile):

* Dom -- vocals (all songs), acoustic guitar (all songs), harmonica ("Remember Me" and "Walk Peacefully"), piano ("Heartbeat Lullaby" and "Walk Peacefully")

* Christopher Davis-Shannon -- upright bass ("Heartbeat Lullaby" and "When I Get Back")

* Jamie Myerson -- snare drum ("Walk Peacefully")

TECHNICAL CREDITS:

All songs written by Domenic C. Scarcella, copyright 2007, except "Walk Peacefully" copyright 2006

Produced by Dom

Recorded, mixed and processed by Jamie Myerson at Blackwood Recording (click for MySpace profile) . Jamie also co-produced "Walk Peacefully"

Mastered by Peter Humphreys at Masterwork (click for MySpace profile) .

Cover photo by Leroy Hickman Jr. See more of his work at R.D. Photography (click for MySpace profile) .

SPECIAL THANKS:

Aileen Fazzolari, Kris Noyes, Dawn Premock & the Delmarva Chapter of Operation America Rising, Julianne Ross

This album dedicated to 2LT Eugene Cerbone and PFC Domenick Scarcella, who served in World War II.

Influences: "Walk Peacefully" lyrics are adapted from a poem that has been passed from soldier to soldier since at least as far back as World War II. The poem, whose authorship is unknown, usually goes by the title "The Soldiers' Poem," but other titles found for it include "The Final Inspection" and simply "The Soldier." The original poem was shown to me in July of 2006 by my friend Julie Ross, and I thought it read like lyrics to a folk song, so I made a few changes and turned it into one.

"Remember Me" and "Proud of Him" were written after reviewing the materials from Operation America Rising, a network of rallies and fundraisers for military personnel and their families held on July 7, 2007. What struck me the most were the repeated themes of pride and maintaining personal connections expressed by the active-duty military personnel and their loved ones. I performed both of these songs (which were less than two weeks old at the time) and "Walk Peacefully" at the Delmarva chapter of O.A.R. rally in Dover, Del.

It was at the O.A.R. rally that I began considering this new EP recording project. I met some military veterans there who were very appreciative of the three original songs. I also learned more about organizations that send care packages, sometimes including music CDs, to troops currently serving overseas. A collection of new, original folk songs for the troops seemed like a good idea. I wrote two more songs -- "Heartbeat Lullaby" and "When I Get Back" -- that were thematically similar to the three I already had, but with less overt military references in the lyrics. That gave me five songs, enough for an EP.

Sounds Like: Read what people are saying about this project:

"As I've gotten to know Dom's music over the past two years, I've learned that he's not only a singer and a musician, but also a storyteller. And on his new project, Remember Me, he has really honed that skill.

All 5 songs relate to the story of an American soldier -- or to all of them. And Dom tells these stories in a way that really draws you in, with the right amount of emotion to grab your heart without being schmaltzy. These songs are good reminders for those of us who might not know someone in the war. There's stories about a soldier heading off to war, looking forward to coming home, those who are in the midst of it, and also a song from the point of view of soldiers' loved ones at home, and even one about a fallen soldier who is told to "walk peacefully" by God.

It's refreshing to see a musician undertake a project like this, and take a personal look at soldiers' whose stories are so often lost in politics."

-- MARK ROGERS, WSTW

"When I'm listening to the music on here, the emphasis that you've put into these songs and the words you've put out there, you really got the image to me.

These songs really hit home. There are very heartfelt songs here that people can really relate to."

-- JIM SANTORA, WCBP and BLOGTALKRADIO
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Interview and performance from 2008 Memorial Day episode of TV program The Tim Qualls Show

Been meaning to go hunt for these clips on YouTube, and here they are! I visited Positive Productions studio in Newark, Del., on May 14, 2008, to tape a song performance segment for a special Memorial...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:19:00 GMT

WSTW Hometown Heroes awards, Feb. 10, 2008

I'm flattered to have received two write-in awards from listeners of WSTW's independent music program, "Hometown Heroes," and to be included in the Feb. 10, 2008, broadcast of the Homey Awards. My son...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:10:00 GMT