{"title":"Jerry David DeCicca","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"time-the-teacher","title":"Time The Teacher","description":"\u003cp\u003eJerry David DeCicca's second solo album,Time the Teacher, resides in the Texas Hill Country where dance halls and cedar post fences are as naturally occurring as a river or a cavern. But the fiddles and acoustic guitars of this terrain's Godfathers, like Jerry Jeff Walker and Townes Van Zandt, has been replaced by saxophones, piano, trumpet, and soulful backing singers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced by Jeb Loy Nichols and Benedic Lamdin (Nostalgia 77) in London, DeCicca recorded his vocals with Stuart Sikes (Cat Power, White Stripes) in Austin, Texas between bites of BBQ. Nichols met DeCicca when he was a 20 year old working in a used record store in Ohio, while touring hisLover's Knotalbum. Years later, in 2007, they collaborated on producing the final recordings of Larry Jon Wilson.Time the Teacheris the hymn and highlight of their 20 year friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeCicca is the former leader of The Black Swans. His 2014 solo debut,Understanding Land, was a collection of home recordings featuring Will Oldam, Kelley Deal, and Spooner Oldham. He is also the producer of outsider songwriter albums by Ed Askew (Tin Angel), Chris Gantry (Drag City), and Will Beeley (Tompkins Square). He works in social services and lives in the rural town of Bulverde, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50463752225099,"sku":"1027796","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/10a2f39c-e3c1-44b2-9ec1-5dbc0bfb2326_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727266169"},{"product_id":"the-unlikely-optimist-and-his-domestic-adventures","title":"The Unlikely Optimist and his Domestic Adventures","description":"\u003cp\u003e Jerry David DeCicca's fourth solo album, \u003ci\u003eThe Unlikely Optimist and His Domestic Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e, is an anti[1]Hallmark ode to positivity set in the Texas Hill Country where he lives. Dark gray in one corner, silly in another, humorous but always human, it features Augie Meyers(Sir Douglas Quintet) on Vox Continental \u0026amp; squeezebox, Ralph White (Bad Livers) on violin and kalimaba, Frank 'The Wild Jalapeno' Rodarte (Doug Sahm) on tenor sax, and JDD's buddies, electric guitarist Don Cento (Sarah Jaffee), bassist Canaan Faulkner (Black Swans, Will Beeley), drummer Jovan Karcic (Scrawl), and his partner, Eve Searls, on backing and duet vocals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of the songs: \u003ci\u003eI See Horizons \u003c\/i\u003eis a mediation that peaks over the next ledge; \u003ci\u003eCoffee Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a wake-up call to mellowing out; \u003ci\u003eTexas Toad\u003c\/i\u003e finds joy in the little creatures among us; “West Texas Trilogy” is a road song that trances and traces poverty, nature, memory and music along the border to Big Bend; \u003ci\u003eQuiet Life\u003c\/i\u003e just sits on the front porch. DeCicca’s day-job is as a provider of vocational rehabilitation services (which means he works with individuals with disabilities to obtain and maintain competitive and integrated employment in their communities), as well as recording, producing and compiling music for lost legends of country music like Will Beeley, Elyse Weinerg and Bob Martin, working for labels such as Numero Group and Tompkins Square.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Worried Songs","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50466284929355,"sku":"1130725","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/82e98fbb-b5b3-40fb-938a-594b091732a6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727310250"},{"product_id":"new-shadows-2","title":"New Shadows","description":"\u003cp\u003eJerry David DeCicca's 5th solo album, \u003ci\u003eNew Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, is a literary-goth, avant-Americana meditation, surreal and ruminative, featuring David Hidalgo and Steve Berlin (from Los Lobos), guitarist Jeff Parker, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro (from Irreversible Entanglements), singer Rosali Middleman (Rosali), and composer\/sound archivist, Brian Harnetty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e New Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e peaks into corners where interior and exterior worlds collide, where minuscule revelations can be found in the darkness of ourselves and our community: lost children, unheard prayers, bugs, money, depression, romantic relationships, regret, and Zoom funerals, all become a lens for self-reflection. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe production (by Don Cento and JDD) is modeled after DeCicca's favourite early 80's albums (Lindsey Buckingham's \u003ci\u003eLaw and Order\u003c\/i\u003e, ZZ Top's \u003ci\u003eAfterburner\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert Palmer's \u003ci\u003eClues\u003c\/i\u003e, Lou Reed's\u003ci\u003e New Sensations\u003c\/i\u003e) while the songs' architectures and pathos lean more towards Warren Zevon, Townes Van Zandt, and John Prine - all these record- makers and songwriters are embedded in DeCicca's DNA, having seen them, and in some cases met them after gigs, when his brain was still developing between the ages of 13-19 years old. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe virtual collaborators are the musicians whose kept him company while isolated in his rural town, Bulverde, TX: Brian Harnetty's Many Hands, Rosali's No Medium, Irreversible Entanglements' Who Sent You?, James Brandon Lewis's Jessup Wagon, Jeff Parker's JP's Myspace Beats and Suite for Max Brown, and the Los Lobos discography. New Shadows isn't so much about DeCicca's new discoveries, as it is the penumbrous reminder of what's always been there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bwatue Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50530921414987,"sku":"2053371","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50530921808203,"sku":"2053378","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/New_Shadows_7a16a14b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728088389"},{"product_id":"cardiac-country","title":"Cardiac Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eJerry David DeCicca is songwriter and producer. He makes his living as a vocational rehabilitation provider for special education students and adults. He’s produced albums for Ed Askew (Tin Angel Records), Bob Martin and Ralph White (Worried Songs), Will Beeley (Tompkins Square), Chris Gantry (Drag City), Larry Jon Wilson (1965 Records\/ Drag City) and worked on reissue projects for Numero Group. Collaborators on his DIY solo albums include David Hidalgo, Kelley Deal, Augie Meyers, Jeff Parker, Spooner Oldham, Will Oldham, and many others.  He lives in the rural town of Bulverde, TX with his two dogs, three cats, five toads, and wife. His previous band, The Black Swans, released 5 albums and toured for 10 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drag City\/Sophomore Lounge","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51647899795787,"sku":"R5185-1662","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/SL141hires.jpg?v=1744798162"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/jerry-david-decicca.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}