Tag: David Quinn

LISTEN: David Quinn, “Cornbread and Chili”

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Artist: David Quinn
Hometown: Woodridge, Illinois
Song: “Cornbread and Chili”
Album: Country Fresh
Release Date: April 15, 2022
Label: Downhome Records / Soundly Music

In Their Words: “I had been wanting to write this song for a long time. It’s my version of ‘Homegrown Tomatoes’ by Guy Clark. I spend a lot of time writing about the more serious aspects of life so it was nice to sit down and write about all of my favorite things like comfort food, good music, and listening to the rain. This song is exactly how I spend my free time. Growing up my mom would always say, ‘That’s good eating!’ and it’s something I continue to say today. I knew I wanted the full band on this one in the studio but I was not sure how it was going to work. I am really happy with how it came out and any time I hear it, it brings me right back to the summer I wrote it.” — David Quinn

Photo Credit: Laura E. Partain

LISTEN: David Quinn, “Letting Go”

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Artist: David Quinn
Hometown: Woodridge, Illinois
Song: “Letting Go”
Album: Letting Go
Release Date: October 23, 2020

In Their Words: “The song ‘Letting Go’ is what really got the whole record going for me. It put everything in perspective about what I was trying to say with the album. It all started with that opening line, ‘I’m letting go of everything that’s holding me down.’ I was dealing with a bunch of things at the moment, and I just needed to let it all go. I had a headache for about six months straight, and I reference that in the song: ‘My head, it hurts/Lord you know I’m spinnin’ around.’

“I was also being pulled in a million different directions in my personal life and with music. After the first record, I felt a little pigeonholed by a specific genre, when for me, I’m just making country music the way I hear it. I was tired of even considering those things when I was making music, or any decision with my life. I think we spend far too much time trying to make other people happy, and I decided I am through with it, even if that means getting rid of people or things in your life that hold you back; that’s where that song came from. The song allowed me to put it on paper, and release it from my mind, and it turned into a major theme on the record.” — David Quinn

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LISTEN: David Quinn, “Grassy Trails”

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Artist: David Quinn
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Song: “Grassy Trails”
Album: Wanderin’ Fool
Release Date: April 5, 2019

In Their Words: “‘Grassy Trails’ was a lot of fun to record. It was right in everyone’s wheelhouse stylistically. Dave Roe and Jimmy Lester really were the perfect guys for this track. They set the pace for the rhythm and Jon Estes came in and laid down some nice pedal steel. If you listen close, Jimmy Lester plays my favorite bell pattern in that second chorus. This song has taken a few different shapes since I wrote it but it is one I always play at every show. I know it’s cliché to say this but I have loved trains since I was a kid and always dreamt about riding the rails. I use to go out and sit next to the tracks when I was younger and just watch the trains go by up close. That’s really where the song came from. I grew up reading Jack Kerouac and other beat writers and hearing about their adventures on trains. Those stories always stuck with me and created a feeling I have been chasing ever since. It seemed fit to put it on this record, Wanderin’ Fool.” — David Quinn

Photo credit: Jess Myers