Dave Hause - Blood Harmony

4.5

Rating

4.5/5

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With Flyctory.com growing in all three pillars, I also have access to more music before it is in fact released. A promotion company provided me Blood Harmony by the US-American singer-songwriter Dave Hause. Here are my thoughts about the album, which has been published on 22th October 2021.

Dave Hause – About The Artist

Dave Hause was born on 12th March 1978 in Philadelphia, USA. He is majorly doing rock, typically with a touch of folk or punk music. His first steps on stage have been in punk and hardcore rock in the mid-1990’s. In general, he has been very active in the Philadelphia music scene during the following years. Around 2010, Hause started to work more intensively on solo material, which finally lead to two EPs released that year, Melanin and Resolutions. One year later, in 2011, he released his first album Resolutions. So far, he has released four albums, the last one being Kick published in 2019.

Dave Hause – Blood Harmony – Track by Track

The ten song album lasts 33 minutes.

1. Northstar

What a beautiful and gentle way to start the album. Northstar comes with Dave Hause on the acoustic guitar, a beautiful story with a lot of love and Hause’s voice which is telling it to the listener. 3:21 minutes of a warm feeling.

2. Sandy Sheets

After this slow and intimate start, Sandy Sheets is a straight rock song with folk elements. Superb listen with a nice energy and a good vibe. Really good one – an easy pick as a single release, I guess.

3. Hanalei

And Hanelei, we could stay
We could sell anything
that isn’ nailed down
In Hanalei, we could say
We could say the hell with forever
And be here together right now

I love the storytelling of Dave Hause – and the way he his describing the emotions being at a special place with Hanalei is just beautiful. I am sure you enjoy listening as well.

4. Plagiarist

The electric guitars are out again – and they play their riffs from the very beginning. Still, Plagiarist comes with a nice ease and a nice melody.

5. Gary

Song like Gary typically make me think why I haven’t heard of the artist before. Glad that there is this website and promotion companies you feed you with albums like Blood Harmony (okay, they sometimes feed you with bad ones as well…). Feel gifted to be able to enjoy this track.

6. Surfboard

Surfboard is a nice song with a happy hook, which has a nice summer feeling. And you don’t listen that often to lyrics like Dear Lord, I need a surfboard, do you?

7. Leave It In That Dream

Leave It In That Dream is one of these songs I just lean back in my chair close my eyes and listen to the story of the song. Great songwriting about still dreaming of a broken love.

8. Snowglobe

Snowglobe nicely plays with the contrast between rather quiet and slow verses and a powerful chorus, which has the touch of an alternative rock song. Would have loved to have the whole song in that style – but no doubt, Dave Hause did a nice one here.

9. Carry the Lantern

Carry the Lavtern is a nice rocker. To me, it is one of the best, catching songs of the album. Even though the track has not been selected as a single release (yet?), I definitely recommend a listen here.

10. Little Wings

The album closes with another “Close your eyes and listen to the story” song. Dave Hause just does beautiful stories and beautiful songs. Thirty minutes of smiling to Blood Harmony are over.

Dave Hause – Blood Harmony – Spotify

Here is Blood Harmony on Spotify:

Dave Hause – Blood Harmony – My View

I feel I already wrote quite much about this album – I feel that the Flyctory.com set of 22nd October 2021 reviews is really gifted with very different, but very good releases. Dave Hause’s album is definitely one of them. Great listen, thankful to have been exposed to this ten song storybook. Another review, another Top Pick! – enjoy the listen, too.

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Her powerful songs - and maybe also her strong Southern accent as a signature element - boosted Lainey Wilson's music ...

Tobacco Rd Band – Worth Fighting For

The Tobacco Rd Band are known for their powerful country rock sound and inspiring love songs. On 12th February 2021, ...

Aaron Lee Tasjan – Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!

It is very hard to categorize the music of Aaron Lee Tasjan. I even found his 2021 album Tasjan! Tasjan! ...

Jake Hoot – Love Out Of Time EP

While many talent show candidates rather have a tough time in the "real world" in Germany, the US show winners ...

Jimmy Weber – Black & Blue Heart

Black & Blue Heart by Jimmy Weber is another country music album release I just ran into while I scanned ...

Willie Jones – Right Now

It is almost nine years ago, since Willie Jones stood in front of the The X Factor jury to persuade them ...

John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – American Amadeus

Hair Metal - the fusion of pop and metal is a genre for some quite strange - but successful - ...

Aaron Watson – American Soul

Aaron Watson feels like the protagonist of a tobacco advertising campaign, like a dressman for American cowboy fashion - or ...

Understanding Train Station – A Podcast on Living Abroad and Cultural Differences

I already introduced you to Feli, the German Girl in America, now Feli from Germany, in my Flyctory.com posting about her ...

Steve Earle & The Dukes – J.T.

Steve Earle is indeed a productive musical artist: just some eight months after his amazing concept album Ghosts of West Virginia, ...

Cody Weaver – Southern Noise EP

The number of new releases, especially in regards of EPs and albums, is definitely decreasing in December. There are still ...

Russell Dickerson – Southern Symphony

With his debut album Yours and the corresponding single, Russell Dickerson won the hearts of country music fans worldwide. The more, ...

Granger Smith – Country Things, Vol. 2

Here we go again - after Granger Smith released the first part of his Country Things album in September 2020, the ...

Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts

Miley Cyrus is simply a music superstar and talented in multiple genres. Thus, new Miley Cyrus albums are always exciting ...

Ward Davis – Black Cats and Crows

Ward Davis is a great name in the Nashville songwriting scene. Since five years, he is regularly publishing solo music ...

Kameron Marlowe – EP

Kameron Marlowe indeed made best use of the publicity he gained by participating in The Voice: his debut single, Giving You Up ...

Chris Stapleton – Starting Over

It is hard to believe that Chris Stapleton's 13th November 2020 release Starting Over is indeed his fourth studio album ...

Joe Bonamassa – Royal Tea

Joe Bonamassa meets Abbey Road studios? This definitely sounds like an interesting co-production of two legendary parts of music history! ...

Trace Adkins – Ain’t That Kind Of Cowboy EP

If you had your first number one hit 23 years ago and are still regularly producing, you definitely proofed to ...

mxmtoon – dusk EP

In fact, mxmtoon released her EP dusk already on 1st October 2020. I ran into her music while scanning the 2nd ...

Dolly Parton – A Holly Dolly Christmas

It's Christmas time... and while the classic Do They Know it's Christmas? continues with and there's no need to be ...

The Nude Party – Midnight Manor

A band which has been named based on their nudist colony background feels to be a promising basis for a ...

Hardy – A Rock

Hardy is quite well-known in the country music scene as a songwriter. Florida Georgia Line, Chris Lane or Morgan Wallen ...

Lauren Alaina – Getting Over Him EP

Already the second EP of the year - while Lauren Alaina gave us her Getting Good in March 2020, she is ...

Tennessee Jet – The Country

Tennesse Jet is a quite amazing act in the country music scene. He is producing very rocking, powerful, but also ...

Josh Turner – Country State of Mind

Josh Turner is very successful on the country music side as well as an artist for Christian music. Country State ...

Jim “Kimo” West – More Guitar Stories

After his 2015 album Guitar Stories: Slack Key & Beyond, Jim "Kimo" West is back in the virtual record stores with ...

Taylor Swift – folklore

The news nearly exploded in social media on 23rd July 2020: there will be a new Taylor Swift album. Release ...

Kansas – The Absence of Presence

Whenever big names of the music business release new music, there are two scenarios: they either still do great music ...

Donna Missal – Lighter

While scanning the album releases as of 10th July 2020, I ran into Lighter by Donna Missal. I have to admit ...

Jonny Houlihan – Hey Girl EP

Scanning the list of new country music releases, I ran into Hey Girl by Jonny Houlihan. In fact, the EP has ...

Eric Paslay – Heartbeat Higher EP

Eric Paslay is one of the biggest secret stars of the country music genre to me. A fantastic songwriter, who ...

Kyle Nix – Lightning On The Mountain & Other Little Stories

When you ask for promising new country acts, you very often run into the name of Kyle Nix. However, Nix ...

Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways

Not just due to being the only popular music artist who ever received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan ...

Gabby Barrett – Goldmine

Gabby Barrett made it well in American Idol and even better with I Hope. The fans were waiting for her debut album, ...

Lady Gaga – Chromatica

Lady Gaga is one of the very, very big names in music industry. You just do not have to introduce ...

Kip Moore – Wild World

Kip Moore released quite a series of songs during the last months. This was a strong indicator for... a new ...

Florida Georgia Line – 6-Pack EP

5 cans, obviously of different kinds of beer (and the six song titles on it), are on the cover of ...

Steve Earle & The Dukes – Ghosts of West Virginia

Steve Earle is definitely one of the big names in music in general. The country and folk artist had very ...

Travis Denning – Beer’s Better Cold EP

Despite having some big songs with multi-million streams already, Beer's Better Cold is really of Travis Denning. The Georgia-origin artist released the ...

Hailee Steinfeld – Half Written Story EP

Already being nominated for the Academy Awards at the age does not sound to be an introduction for a musical ...

Randy Rogers & Wade Bowen – Hold My Beer, Vol. 2

While I ran into similar issues the last weekends already, Friday 8th May 2020 was even special in regards of ...

Dramarama – Color TV

If you are running out of albums to be reviewed as so many releases are postponed due to Covid-19, this ...

Kenny Chesney – Here and Now

While quite some major country music artists moved their release dates to (hopefully) better times in the future, Kenny Chesney ...

Hot Country Knights – The K Is Silent

If you already know five out of ten tracks of an album and just feel to deeply miss the other ...

Tim Dugger – Signs Of A Good Time EP

Though he regularly released some songs, the last major recording by Tim Dugger has already been already five years ago ...

Drake White – Stars EP

There are various reasons why I select music for review. I did not have Drake White's EP Stars on my list, ...

Julia Cole – Honey Child EP

I ran into the music of Julia Cole especially when I listened to Honey Child, which is also the title track ...

Joe Satriani – Shapeshifting

It is really tough to select the right achievement to describe Joe Satriani's career in one fact. Over ten million ...

Maddie & Tae – The Way It Feels

Despite The Way It Feels is only their second album, Maddie & Tae are already very established artists in the country ...

Ashley McBryde – Never Will

Ashley McBryde is not just one of the steadily growing brands in the country music industry, she is also having ...

Brett James – I am Now EP

Reading the list of songs written by Brett James is like a Who is Who of the country music business ...

Delta Rae – The Light

After Delta Rae has been quite successful in the beginning of the 2010's, the band has not been too present ...

Kelsea Ballerini – Kelsea

Kelsea Ballerini was one of the first country music artist I feld some sort of fandom for. On 20th March ...

Lauren Alaina – Getting Good EP

Lauren Alaina is one of the countless acts, who made it into the music business by one of the big ...

Seven Spires – Emerald Seas

I happened to run into the front lady of the Seven Spires, Adrienne Cowan, when Tobias Sammet chose her as ...

Carly Pearce – Carly Pearce

In summer 2017, I visited a lovely country festival in Lexington, Kentucky called Red, White & Boom, which had an ...

The Cadillac Three – Country Fuzz

The Cadillac Three are quite popular in Europe as well as in the USA. Not too surprising, the Nashville trio ...

Richard Marx – Limitless

It was 1989 when Richard Marx was Right Here Waiting For You and gave a musical promise of love which touched ...

Celeste Kellogg – Keep It On Repeat EP

Being part of a Radio Disney band at the age of 12 already - Celeste Kellogg definitely had early footsteps ...

Richie Kotzen – 50 for 50

What does a musician give himself best as a birthday present? Richie Kotzen went for a new album on 3rd ...

Cody Hibbard – Memory and A Dirt Road

I got quite a lot into the international - and especially the US - country music scene the last years, ...

Little Big Town – Nightfall

When it comes to the best country music vocalists, Little Big Town is always a hot candidate for the title ...

Dustin Lynch – Tullahoma

Two and a half year after Current Mood and the amazing single Seein' Red, Dustin Lynch tried to boost himself back into ...

Cassadee Pope – Stages (with Track by Track Commentary)

Especially in the winter season, when people are looking for Christmas presents, it is not too unusual that among Greatest Hits ...

Luke Combs – What You See Is What You Get (Review)

Just in the week when Luke Combs left his top position in the album charts with This One's For You and ...

Luke Combs – This One’s For You – The Record-Breaking Album

Usually, I am reviewing albums at the time of release. Luke Combs This One's For You has been released on 2nd ...

Miranda Lambert – Wildcard

Miranda Lambert is one of the big names in the female country music. Thus, it is an event in focus ...

Jon Langston – Now You Know EP

Typically, after I finished the album reviews I planned to do on a Friday, I scan the new releases if ...

Old Dominion (Album Review)

Just a few weeks after Old Dominion toured Germany and the rest of Europe, they released a new album. I ...

Chris Janson – Real Friends

The superb live entertainer Chris Janson is back - though he feels like quite a young artist to me, he ...

Chris Knight – Almost Daylight

Seven years after his last album, Chris Knight released his new album Almost Daylight. Being successful as a songwriter in parallel, I ...

Brantley Gilbert – Fire & Brimstone

Will Brantley Gilbert do the Billboard-Hattrick after his last two albums topped the US Billboard Charts? I was really looking ...

Sturgill Simpson – Sound & Fury

If you won a Grammy Award for the Best Country Album of the Year, you are big in the country ...

Sheryl Crow – Threads

Time to say good bye? Strong rumors stated that Threads might be Sheryl Crow's farewell album. Crow has done so much for ...

Tanya Tucker – While I’m Livin’

While Tanya Tucker was a country music hit machine in the 1970s and 1980s, she significantly decreased the frequency of ...

Tyler Childers – Country Squire

Not just on stage in Germany, but also due to a significant number of studio releases, the upcoming months from ...

Willie Nelson – Ride Me Back Home

June 2019 is Nelson family time: just one week after his son Lukas published the album Turn Off The New ...

Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars

While I posted my review about Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real's new album on 14th June 2019, most ...

Lauren Jenkins – No Saint (Album Review)

Lauren Jenkins was one of three artists, who opened the 2019 Country 2 Country debut in Berlin with a traditional ...

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