Dave Goddess Group

Kitty Hawk

Independent

Dave Goddess formed the Dave Goddess Group in 2012, recording his debut album “Something New”. Three EP’s followed 2014’s “Blown Away”; 2016’s “Beautiful World”; and 2018’s “Last of the West Side Cowboys”. In 2020 Goddess released a second full album “Once in a Blue Moon”; in 2022 he released a third full album “Back in Business” which garned international airplay and a series of successful videos.

The success of “Back in Business” inspired Goddess “to get out and play a little more”. “I found myself in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, near the site of the Wright Brothers first flight. Their ingenuity, intelligence, courage, and perseverance led them to accomplish a truly amazing feat. They failed many times but refused to quit, and as a result, they conquered the sky and changed the world”.

“Kitty Hawk” was engineered and mixed by co-producer Konrad Carelli at the Spectra Sound Studio in Quakertown, Pa. The Group includes Goddess, all lead vocals, guitars and keyboards; Mark Buschi, bass and backing vocals; Robbie Bossert, pedal steel guitar; Craig Kastelnik, organ and piano; and Valerie Borman, backing vocals.

“Kitty Hawk” opens with “Tin Foil Hat”. “It’s about all the disinformation that flies around these days that seems to pit people against one another…so I decided to write about a guy who falls for a girl who buys into all the conspiracy theories…like a faked moon landing, Bigfoot, chemtrails, Paul McCartney really being dead, or aliens walking among us. He thinks she’s crazy, but he’s fascinated by her and in the end decides not to judge her, but to just love her, and agree to disagree”. “this is why we need to make a world like that…she looks different in her “Tin Foil Hat”.

The rootsy, haunting “Wild and Willing” took shape when goddess found himself in Mexico. It was a hot night under a full moon, “I was with my wife, and it was just magical, I got an idea to reimagine a song I’d written earlier, it became a quiet ballad”, “there is a reason for the quiet that comes before the storm…we are wild and willing, but that enough is not enough, we are wild and willing, crazy to be in love”.

“Hey Romeo” is a bit of nostalgia as Goddess chimes “late nights…a little bit of trouble, go cat go, hey romeo, a circus cowboy, I’ll miss you when your gone, gone, gone”. On “Lucky Guy” with more great pedal steel, Goddess sings “always a friend…lord knows I’m a lucky guy…she don’t take no for an answer, she don’t compromise, she comes in colors and away we fly, I’ve given up my secrets, lord knows I’m a lucky guy”, with some great piano.

Goddess says about the catchy rocker “Someone Worth Waiting For”. “It’s about a guy who never left his hometown, he’s a dreamer, but he’s stuck in a dead-end job and hangs out at a pool hall with his low-life friends. He does pretty well with the ladies but can’t seem to find true love, but that doesn’t stop him from looking”. “Everybody’s found somebody to love…not me, I’m still in the pool hall, I’m just waiting for someone worth waiting for…big deal, I got burned, I’m alone but that’s alright, you can’t find true love overnight”.

On the closer “Pretty Soon It’ll Be Too Late” Goddess croons “never say die, never say no…you’ll keep knockin’ but you can’t come in, never say die, never say no…there was a time, pretty soon it’ll be too late, your out of touch, your out of fate, never say die, never say never”

It’s not surprising that Goddess was inspired by vintage roots rockers, The Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young and Bob Dylan; “I soak in the influences and filter them through my own off-kilter brain. In the end you realize that the thing you have to offer is yourself”. On “Kitty Hawk” Dave Goddess proves himself to be truly unique.

Richard Ludmerer
Contributing Editor/Making A Scene

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