Big Stir Records is proud to bring you a special triple-sized installment of our Digital Singles Series in the form of a six song sampler from the imminent 50 track, 20 year career retrospective digital anthology from DAVID BROOKINGS! It's out at
www.bigstirrecords.com/big-stir-digital-singles right now and provides a teaser for the the depth of what's to come when David Brookings Anthology: Demos, Alternate Takes and More is released next Friday, 10/9/20 on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, Pandora, and anywhere digital music is sold or streamed.
The retrospective spans 2000-2020 and comes out 20 years to the very day after Brookings' first album Sounds Off was released (10/9/00). Included are never-before-heard home demos, live performances, interview clips, cover songs, previously unreleased tracks, and alternate takes and mixes of some of David' best known tunes. Our sampler shows off a bit of it all, leading off with “All I Love is Rock ’n’ Roll” in an alternate mix, and the “could only have been written in 2020” home recording “Livin’ Through the Plague”. “I’ll Cry Instead”, an early alternate take of “Tough Crowd”, “Red Letter Day” and “King Without a Throne” round out the triple single and will definitely leave the listener eager for more!
David Brookings will be a familiar figure to our audience, with a career worthy of such a collection and a string of albums across two decades and consistently strong reviews for his songcraft, wit, and vocal prowess. Having worked and recorded from home bases in Richmond, VA and Memphis (including the legendary Sun Studios), David was last heard from in Northern California. Then fronting the mighty Average Lookings on 2018's rapturously-received SCORPIO MONOLOGUES (of which “Destiny”, David's previous entry in our Singles Series, was a highlight), Brookings has since relocated to Southern California with his family. Here he's been a frequent and beloved solo performer at the Big Stir Burbank live series (where his pickup backing band has included our own John Borack and Rex Broome of The Armoires).
At the onset of the 2020 pandemic, Brookings emerged as one of the first and finest to tackle the live streaming concert idiom – his deft way with covers as well as his own fine material made him a natural in a field that flummoxed many – and has continued writing and recording while assembling the virtual career retrospective box that's now about to see the light of day at last. These six songs provide a glimpse into what awaits. For more on Anthology including pre-order information, visit:
www.davidbrookings.net
released January 1, 2016