Singer-songwriter Dave Clark, who just released his latest album, Arizona, used to perform with the local rock acts Baby Blue, Dreamer, Dia Pason and Rough House before he took his talents to Phoenix.
, used to perform with the local rock acts Baby Blue, Dreamer, Dia Pason and Rough House before he took his talents to Phoenix. But even though he’s now living in the same desert community that Alice Cooper and Rob Halford call home, Cleveland's impact is still apparent in his music.
"Eric Carmen was one of my three most significant influences when it comes to songwriting, right there along with the Beatles and Boston," says Clark, who fondly remembers Carmen, who also lived in Phoenix , in a phone interview."I went through a years-long Raspberries phase where I listened to Carmen's songs hundreds of times, studying the nuances of his songwriting.
"Funny thing, that track was written in the middle of my Raspberries phase while I was on vacation in Myrtle Beach in the early 1990s, and I even thanked Eric Carmen in the liner notes for the inspiration," says Clark."People have been indicating that song as an album favorite, and it is neither a single nor has it been individually promoted in any way, so the interest is organic in nature.
For the album, Clark dug into his vaults and reworked some songs he wrote from 1988 to 1992 while he still lived in Northeast Ohio.
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