STEVE ROACH / Roger King Dust To Dust CD 1998

Dust To Dust

CD

1  Gone West  7:27
2  A Daze Wage  6:13
3  A Bigger Sky 3:19
4  The Ribbon Rails Of Promise  10:53
5  First Sunrise  4:27
6  Lost And Forgotten  10:24
7  Snake Eyes  5:35
8  Rain And Creosote  5:32
9  Ghost Train 7:29

What Drives A Man To Go West?
Dust to Dust is the creation of restless, ever-pioneering composer Steve Roach and native-Tucsonian Roger King, a seasoned studio guitarist, sound engineer and patent medicine man. Their music grew out of a series of easy-going get-togethers to “see what the hell might happen.” Roach and King soon discovered that growing up in the desert had mutually steeped them in the omnipresent influence of the Wild West in all its glory. Dust to Dust is western music in the truest sense. It is a bold step in a new direction: where sounds paint pictures with a range of colors drawn from the land, where stories are told with the instruments of old and new pioneers. Guitars, harmonicas and washboard rhythms find their place next to a wagon full of electronics. Roach and King manage to roll the clock back and jar it forward a bit, creating a unique piece of “New American West Music.”

"The music feels like torn leather chaps that have been out on the virtual-trail for a while, making Dust to Dust one of Roach’s most melodic, yet gritty albums to date . . . It sounds like the musicians have strapped on six-shooters in a Sergio Leone spaghetti western." (John Diliberto, ECHOES RADIO)