Music:
Member Since: 11/11/2005
Band Website: daostrom.com
Band Members: everything that blooms wrecks me features these musicians: dao (vocals, harmony vocals, guitars), kevin fox (upright bass, electric guitar, harmony vocals), billy brent malkus (dobro, electric guitar), brian beken (violin, mandolin), kullen fuchs (piano, accordion, rhodes), joseph santori (cello), jimmy way (drums), darwin smith (guitars, ebow, harmony vocals, bells & keys), aimee bobruk (harmony vocals). produced by the wonderful darwin smith.
Influences: good and gentle things. sadness. love. vietnam. exile stories and songs. rivers and mountains, trees and leaves. rain, snow.
Sounds Like: ***here is what some reviewers have said.... NO DEPRESSION (Mar/Apr 2005 issue): "The songs that flesh out Send Me Home are redolent of stringband music filtered through the mind's eye, untainted by the retroactive sentimentality of memory."3rd COAST MUSIC (Apr 2005 cover story): "Dao brings more than a clutch of subtle songs, infused with melancholy, lightened by dashes of humor and an undercurrent of hope, to the table...combining vintage sounds with modern awareness."MAGNAPHONE MUSIC: "Pure and lovely music...rich with a tender melancholy and gentle darkness...Dao Strom is the real thing. Send Me Home is full of history, recalling grand traditions of country-western and Appalachian folk and steeped in mountain and gospel imagery..."AUSTIN CHRONICLE: "Dao Strom sings a lonely song for the entire world to hear...her wanderlust makes for a beautiful album that endears you from the start, making you feel the pillow against her cheek, hear the freeway through her half-cracked windows. She's a storyteller, and a damn good one."TWANGCAST.COM: "If you think only someone in a trailer park living on welfare can sing the true blues found in country music, think again... Despite her being foreign-born, one listen to Dao's vocal inflections and soul of her tone will convince you she has 'Americana' in her blood."SKYSCRAPER MAGAZINE: "No weak song in sight..." ROOTSTOWN MUSIC (BELGIUM): "The music made by Dao and her friends is of a serene beauty... Take a listen and I'm sure you'll want more."
Type of Label: None
