Napoleon of Temperance, by Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power

Napoleon of Temperance

by Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power

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	1.	Vixen...Vixen...Fox...Fox 02:08
	2.	Puff Rider 03:28
	3.	Lavender Clothes 04:17
	4.	I'll Run Jack On You 03:28
	5.	You Missed A Damn Good Chance 03:38
	6.	Goin To The Go Go 03:36
	7.	Love Jones 03:56
	8.	Cool Water 02:19
	9.	Sleep All Day 03:01
	10.	Subliminal Face 04:00
	11.	Fantastic Rage 04:58
	12.	Winter Winds 02:12
	13.	Bugle Call With Guitar 02:43
	14.	Misengendered Mulatto 02:34
	15.	When Everyone Is Gone 04:25
	16.	Sing 9 and 90 01:33
	17.	Motorcyle 03:54
	18.	Summer Holiday 02:24
	19.	Living In Your Love 05:48
	20.	Booty Shoe II 02:36
	21.	Save The Last Dance For Me 02:34
	22.	Sudden Stop 04:17
	23.	Belinda Purvis 02:07
	24.	Eight Miles High 02:49
	25.	Heat Wave 03:18
	26.	All Day Music 03:37
	27.	Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away) 03:27
	28.	How Can You Mend A Broken Heart 04:46
	29.	I'm Into Something Good 01:55
	30.	You Can't Lose 02:40
	31.	Lay Lady Lay 05:07
	32.	Sifu Bruce Lee 03:18
	33.	Get Down Tonight 02:36
	34.	Warmth Of The Sun 01:46
	35.	Young Love 02:04
	36.	Me and Mrs. Jones 03:17
	37.	Lets Spend The Night Together 02:57
	38.	Wild One 03:31
	39.	It Ain't Nothing To Me 02:27
	40.	Moonage Daydream 04:33
	41.	Geronimo 01:19
	42.	Icy Cold Brew 06:39
	43.	Green Fields 04:11
	44.	Teenage Bossman 02:14
	45.	Evil Dracula Man 04:35

about

Historian of religions Mircea Eliade described shamans as specialists in ecstasy, able to "penetrate the underworld and rise to the sky" in a transcendent state. It is not surprising, then, that the word "shamanistic" has been used repeatedly over the past 25 years to describe the incendiary performances of Nashville's Dave Cloud and his band The Gospel of Power. Weekly late-night shows for the unenlightened Nashville masses quickly established Cloud as Music City's enfant terrible while garnering diehard converts along the way. Holding a dusty mirror to pop music's tawdry conventions, Cloud and his colleagues deftly dismember the Frankenstein monster of modern musical excess. Despite never previously leaving Nashville Dave has fans as far away as Paris and Auckland. As Edwin Pouncey of The Wire magazine noted, "he sounds more like a cross between acid-addled Roky Erickson and boozed Beat writer, the late Charles Bukowski, than Steve Earle or Willie Nelson."

Napoleon of Temperance is a 45 track, double CD retrospective including brand new originals. In April Dave Cloud and The Gospel of Power attempted their first European tour in support of this release. Cloud's handpicked contingent of caballeros will included members of Lambchop and Clem Snide and conjures the distinctive sonic magic Nashville has enjoyed for over two decades including appearances in the Norweigan National press profiled as this years 'IT' guy of the 2006 BergenFest. Think Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, Dan Treacy and Daniel Johnston and you have some idea of what was on show.

To measure the extent of Dave Clouds fanbase you only have to look east to our neighbours in Norway - so excited were they of his arrival that they asked him personally to rename a venue in his honour. The Old Radisson Hotel in downtown Bergen is now called 'Dave Clouds Club El Morrocco'

"alternating between revved-up garage band grind and a slack-stringed acoustic freestyle fumble"
WIRE

"Shamanistic Insanity"
TOTALLY RADIO

"eccentrically hooky and perversely seductive."
NASHVILLE SCENE

"he sounds more like boozed Beat writer, the late Charles Bukowski, than Steve Earle or Willie Nelson"
WIRE

" the last genuine lost genius 4/5"
THE SUNDAY TIMES

"crashes the dancefloor and proceeds to sing like Mick Jagger trapped inside a dog"
PLAN B

"This guy is a bit of a genius if you ask me."
NORMAN RECORDS

"Very odd, very good"
LEEDS GUIDE

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released July 3, 2006

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Dave Cloud Nashville, Tennessee

Cloud's seminal 1999 release 'Songs I Will Always Sing' received critical accolades, with reviews from as far away as Paris and Auckland. As Edwin Pouncey of The Wire magazine noted, "he sounds more like a cross between acid-addled Roky Erickson and boozed Beat writer, the late Charles Bukowski, than Steve Earle or Willie Nelson." ... more

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