Loose Change choreographed by Taye Diggs

Ron Todorowski performing "Loose Change" to DRH's If I Had a Dime in NYC. Choreographed by Taye Diggs.


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DRH at the Hotel Cafe 11/19/07 (d/l)

Another awesome show. Sorry it took so long to post it, but I just woke up from all the Tryptophan I had at Thanksgiving.

As always, click any song on the player to listen, or click the sendspace link to download.***



Rapidshare***

Enjoy, and thanks Debbie for the wonderful recording!

***Contact us at sweetestberryblog@gmail.com if the link needs to be re-up'd.

DRH to Play at Smith's Olde Bar

http://www.smithsoldebar.com/

My Show, Your Way

David's Myspace blog:

My Show, Your Way
Current mood: chipper
Category: Music

"Give the people what they want",
that's what I always say.

I want you to help make the setlist for my two shows coming up.
I don't play alot of All Ages shows, so I want to be sure that when I do play one, I'm giving you something you can feel, like Aretha Franklin.

First we have:
December 18 at the ROXY Theater in Hollywood.
ALL AGES
with Chris Pierce and Destini Wolf.

Then
December 22 at Eddie's Attic in Atlanta/Decatur.
7:00 pm ALL AGES
9:30 pm 21 +

Get your setlists in early and buy your advance tix even earlier

Send your 10 song dream setlist to Team DRH at drhsetlist@mac.com

Currently watching :
Before the Music Dies (Featuring Dave Matthews, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, and Branford Marsalis)
Release date: By 12 December, 2006

Pretty Girl Cover - Josh Hoge

http://myspace.com/joshhoge

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DRH to Play at the Highline Ballroom

www.highlineballroom.com

DRH to Play at Eddie's Attic

www.eddiesattic.com

DRH - For You

DRH performing For You live at the Hotel Cafe 11/12/07:


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DRH Live at Temple 11/17/07

For those that missed it, goodies:

DRH - Hold My Fire (Temple Bar 11/17/07)


DRH - Used to This (Temple Bar 11/17/07)

Both videos uploaded to YouTube by: Brandy314

Listen to the show:




Download the show:
Rapidshare
(Thanks to Debbie once again for a brilliant recording!)

DO YOU WANT MORE?!!!??! DRH, TEMPLE BAR, SANTA MONICA, 11-17-07

A blog from Scotty Crowe:


SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2007
DO YOU WANT MORE?!!!??!
DRH, TEMPLE BAR, SANTA MONICA, 11-17-07

David Ryan Harris and BOOYAHWHATCHA-CHING (see below) hit the stage last night at Temple Bar in Santa Monica, CA -

For You*
All I Need (Everything's Not Lost)
Turn Around
Sweetest Berry**
Pretty Girl (The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, You Send Me, Natural Woman, Let's Get it One)
Used to This
Hold My Fire
Yesterday Shutting Down**
can he get an encore, do you want more?
If I Had A Dime

all songs performed by BOOYAHWHATCHA-CHING (DRH, Michael Chaves, Sean Hurley, JJ Johnson, and the new addition of Chris Lovejoy on percussion) except:
*DRH solo electric
**BOOYAHWHATDENCHA-CHING (add a dash of Bob Reynolds to make it extra tasty)

So, it's a Temple Bar sandwich on Hotel Cafe bread this month - our boys posted it up 11 blocks from the beach and pretty much tore the place down. With JJ and Bob still hanging out in LA, it was another crowded stage of all-stars. Chris Lovejoy jumped in the mix tonight, adding all kinds of things from his neverending bag of tricks (he's like Gallagher over there...except good). I'm not gonna lie, I feel like my toes were a little stepped on when he broke out the triangle in YESTERDAY SHUTTING DOWN, but I'll make it. Let's hear it for a sweet Summer 2001 reference!

Bob killed it on SWEETEST BERRY - best I've ever heard the tune. DRH did his thing in HOLD MY FIRE and YESTERDAY before the crowd brought the dudes back for the first IF I HAD A DIME of the month. Of the season, even.

All in all, a fantastic little night. I think we downsize to BOOYAH tomorrow night at Hotel Cafe, but you don't have to take my word for it.

-Scotty


POSTED BY SCOTTY CROWE AT 03:52 PM

DRH - Don't Look Down Live at the Hotel Cafe 11/5/07

Video uploaded to YouTube by Brandy314

20 Questions with David Ryan Harris

Thursday, November 15, 2007


20 Questions with David Ryan Harris
Category: Quiz/Survey


1) What's the first album you remember buying? CD, tape, vinyl, or 8-track?

the first record i ever got was the Jackson 5's ABC. it came on the back of an Alphabits cereal box. The first record I ever bought was The Time

2) Who would we be surprised to find on your iPod?

Hank Williams Sr. maybe?

3) All time favorite line from a song?

"Words are trains for moving past what really has no name" (Paddy McAloon) Prefab Sprout, "Couldn't Bear To Be Special"

4) Why are you a musician?

because it is what i'm supposed to be. I think we all have (at least) one God given talent with which we are supposed to make a living and serve humanity. So for me, it was either "Musicain" or "Self-Taught Neuro Surgeon"

5) If you weren't a musician what would you be?

Probably a teacher of some sort. I have a thing for jobs that don't always pay very well

6) How did your family react when you told them you wanted to be a musician?

"Duh"

7) Most embarrassing moment on stage thus far (when/where)...

Crowd surfing in Huntsville, AL when i was in Follow For Now. I made it all the way to the back of the crowd , but hit an empty spot in the crowd, and thus, I hit the floor (mic in hand)

8) What is something about you that would surprise your fans?

I tend to put it all in my songs, or in my between song banter, so I can't imagine i could come up with anything really that surprising

9) Which line of your own do you wish you'd never written (or are proud that you did)?

Proud of:
You can try to turn your right cheek if you don't like getting involved, but a problem is still a problem and to turn your cheek will leave the problem unsolved.

10) What inspires you?

Human connection

11) Hidden talents?

???

12) Do you have any phobias?

Doorknobs in public restrooms gross me out

13) Bad habits?

Saying "yes"

14) If you could be a superhero what would your superhero name be and what
would your special power be?

to be able to make people tell the truth

15) Mac or PC?

People use PCs because they have to. People use MACs because they want to. MAC all the way

16) If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life what would it be?

I could eat the Yellowtail Jalapeno sashimi from Matsuhisa until i turn green, which given my complexion would take a long time

17) How do you define SUCCESS?

Being able to support yourself doing something that you love

18) What do you hope to have accomplished in the next year?

I hope to have elevated my profile as a writer/producer and to have written/produced something that sounds like I feel whether its for me or some other artist.

19) Name two things you simply have to do in your lifetime.

Sky and Scuba dive. Same day. Yongala, Australia. Great Barrier Reef

20) What's the best advice anyone's ever given you?

If you're gonna make music for a living, do it because you have to; not because you want to.

Source: The Hub

You Oughta Be In Pictures...

So as you all should know by now, DRH and friends put it down at the Hotel Cafe on Monday, and I'm surprised I emerged from the experience with my face intact. It was that good. David will henceforth be known as the Reverend Harris because the way they worked Sittin On Top of the World had me dancing and clapping and shouting hallelujah like I was in church.

So you're probably wondering why I'm blogging for the third time today. Well, it's simple. DRH is bad ass. You all know this, yes, but guess who else is bad ass? Erik Thureson and his wife, Judy. Yes. Erik is a killer photographer (as you'll see momentarily), and Judy was amazing enough to hook me up so that I could hook YOU up! Aren't Rev. Harris fans the coolest? :)

Okay, so here we go. Photo love coming in 3...2...1...




























Again, a big thanks to Erik Thureson (www.lightbox57) and Judy for sharing these amazing photos!

DRH at the Hotel Cafe 11/12/07

Words don't really explain how great Monday night's show was, you just need to hear it for yourself. Click any song on the player to listen, or click the sendspace link to download.*** (The show is in a zip file, and all songs are in mp3 format.)




Download from: Sendspace
OR
Download from: Rapidshare***


A big thanks to Debbie for recording the show and sharing it with us all. Enjoy!

***Contact us at sweetestberryblog@gmail.com if the link needs to be re-up'd.

WHO WAS WHERE WITH WHOM AND WHERE YOU WAS? WHAT? YES.

A blog from Mr. Scotty Crowe:




Photo courtesy of Gari Lamar Askew.

David Ryan Harris and BOOYAH (and more!) returned for Round 2 at Hotel Cafe last night:

All I Need (Al Green interlude, Everything's Not Lost)*
Hold My Fire*
Sweetest Berry**
Yesterday Shutting Down***
Sittin' On Top Of The World***
Pretty Girl (Shining Star, No One, The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, Sexual Healing)*
For You

*band comprised of BOOYAH (Michael Chaves and Sean Hurley) and JJ Johnson, creating BOOYAHWHAT
**band comprised of BOOYAHWHAT and Bob Reynolds, creating BOOYAHWHATDEN
***band comprised of BOOYAHWHATDEN and John Mayer, creating BOOYAHWHATDENAWWWCHYEAH(snap)
all other songs performed solo (yes, for those of you keeping score at home, that's only one of 'em)

What a day. After spending the day prepping for and playing a little private set with BOOYAHWHATDENAWWWCHYEAH(snap)'s other configuration, we rolled to Hollywood for the big Hotel Sauna (or Sauna Cafe or Sauna Sauna, point being it was WARM in that mofo) show. The kids came out like no shoes and were not disappointed.
We got HOLD MY FIRE early in the night, which set up one of the most rockin', deepest groovin' SWEETEST BERRYs I've ever heard. Bob added some sweet sweet saxiness. John jumped up for YESTERDAY SHUTTING DOWN and SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD (a Howlin' Wolf cover), all the guys trading solos in the latter and all the people soul-clapping in the former. DRH brought back the love to close the set (got to understand he loves the kids). A special night indeed for everyone in the room.

A few visuals to go with that essay, all via my man Gari Lamar Askew (with his Ron Gant-esque swagger)...see you next week...












Don't act like i never toldya.

-Scotty



POSTED BY SCOTTY CROWE AT 11:59 PM

DRH Playing at the Hotel Cafe 11/12/07

Just a reminder, you don't wanna miss it! And also, a bulletin from David's Myspace: ...It was announced as a Midnight show, but should start at around 10:30 PM. This will be DRH with special guests on a night you do NOT want to miss! Get there early to make sure you're in the house for this one...

Special guests:
Michael Chaves
Sean Hurley
and
JJ Johnson

Pretty Girl Cover

Source: Netasmit

DRH at the Hotel Cafe 11/5/07

Ah, it was a great, GREAT show last night, and for those that missed it, here's the next best thing: an audio download! Another big thanks goes out to Debbie Ocoboc for this one.

Click any song on the player to listen, or click the sendspace link to download.*** (The show is in a zip file, and all songs are in mp3 format.)



Download from: Sendspace
OR
Download from: Rapidshare***

Enjoy!

***Contact us at sweetestberryblog@gmail.com if the link needs to be re-up'd.

David Ryan Harris Was at the Hotel Cafe Last Night. Were You?

A BLOG FROM MR. SCOTTY CROWE:


TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 06, 2007
DAVID RYAN HARRIS WAS AT HOTEL CAFE TONIGHT, WERE YOU?

For You*
Strong Enough*
All I Need (Everything's Not Lost)
Can We Get Down
Caribbean Queen tease >
Used to This
Turn Around
Pretty Girl (The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, No One, Sexual Healing, Let's Get It On, I Want You To Want Me, Your Body is a Wonderland)
--
Don't Look Down*

*solo
all other songs with Michael Chaves and Sean Hurley (not this one), creating the collective group I will henceforth call "BOOYAH"

Ok y'alls. I've seen a lot of shows and talked a bunch of hyperbole, but tonight was something special. I can only assume it's a harbinger of the Mondays to come, but these guys together make magic. These songs, old favorites, had a completely new and different vibe thanks to BOOYAH. "Can We Get Down" ended with a singalong and a "that's the man workin' on your bed...springs." "All I Need" and "Used to This" were great all Chaves-ized. "Pretty Girl" was fun as always and included a little of the new Alicia Keys single. BOOYAH reverted to DRH for an encore of "Don't Look Down."

It was a special night, and there are 3 more coming up this month (if you were at home tonight, your November was only 25% ruined). Monday nights. Hotel Cafe.

BOOYAH.




POSTED BY SCOTTY CROWE AT 12:18 AM

California Shows

A repost of DRH's myspace bulletin:

Hey everyone!

Just a reminder that DRH will begin his Monday residency at the Hotel Cafe this coming Monday! Make plans to be there with DRH and bring along a friend- these are going to be three great shows that I know you won't want to miss out on and should fill up pretty early. Check out www.hotelcafe.com for more information! These shows are 21+.

Also, DRH will be performing with the band on Nov. 17th at the Temple Bar in Santa Monica. Tickets are onsale now at www.templebarlive.com and are $10 in advance, $12 at the door.

On a slightly different note, a bunch of our street teamers and Myspace Friends from Phoenix and Los Angeles are going to be at the Suns/Lakers game on Friday in Phoenix, AZ. They have arranged a meet up of sorts to get to know other DRH fans in the Southwest and Cali. If you're interested in meeting up with the group and have tickets to the game, message me back here on Myspace and I'll give you all the info. I will be there as well and would love to meet you before enjoying the Basketball Game! If you are interested in putting together a meet up in your area, feel free to message me as well!

Have a wonderful week and hope to see you out at the Hotel or Temple Bar!

-Tiff at davidryanharris dot com

Shows in Different Area Codes...

A repost of DRH's myspace bulletin:

Hey friends! Tiff from Team DRH here to give you a little bit of news...

The November Hotel Cafe Residency is upon us, and we want to see all of you there! DRH will be performing ..ed Mondays- Nov. 5, 19, and 26-at 9:00 PM. For more information, please go to www.hotelcafe.com or drop me a message here on myspace and I'll get back to you ASAP with the info you're looking for! Please remember, HC shows are 21+.

DRH heads over to the Temple Bar on Nov. 17th! This show will be with some of our favorite band members that you've seen in the past and I can guarantee will be a night you don't want to miss down in Santa Monica. Check out www.templebarlive.com for tickets ($10 in adv/$12 at the door)- DRH starts at 10:30 PM! Temple Bar is also 21+.

And finally- back by popular demand... Atlanta, DRH is comin' back to ya and we've got two shows on one day for you to choose from. Both will be taking place at one of our (and your!) favorite spots, Eddie's Attic, on December 22. The first show is at 7:00 PM and will be ALL AGES. The second show will begin at 9:30 PM and will be 21+. Atlanta friends, you've been requesting it for awhile-- get over there on 12/22 and bring a friend for the holidays.

Lastly, and most importantly --- To all our friends in the Southern California areas who are being affected by the horrible fires going on, please know that everyone with DRH is sending all of our good thoughts and prayers your direction. We hope this horrible disaster ends soon and we can all ban together to help rebuild everything that has been lost and assist with families and friends that need it the most.

Have a good week, folks... and let us know if you need anything or have any questions! Thanks for the support and stay tuned.... We've got something comin atcha real soon that many of you on the East Coast and in the Midwest are going to be buzzing over....

-Tiff

DRH Live in Dallas (Side Stage) 6/22/07

A big thanks to Debbie Ocoboc for taping and uploading another great show and sending it to us so we could share it with you!

It's the audio of David's performance on the Dallas side stage on June 22, 2007 before a John Mayer show. Click any song on the player to listen, or click the sendspace link to download.*** (The show is in a zip file, and all songs are in mp4 format.)


#8 Subterranean Homesick Alien is a Radiohead cover


Download here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/59vp35


And a video from that day, Sweetest Berry ~

Video uploaded to YouTube by TrishSince1977


Thank you Debbie!


***Contact us at sweetestberryblog@gmail.com if the link needs to be re-up'd.

Be the Pimp on TRB VIII...

The Rock Boat VIII is SOLD OUT, the waiting list is out of control, DAVID RYAN HARRIS will be there...and YOU don't have a cabin?

Well Sixthman wants to help you out.



For the 2nd year in a row, Sixthman is giving you the chance to win your way on board… in style! Sign up for your chance to win the ultimate Party In My Penthouse, aka P.I.M.P. trip, (this year with a little extra bling) on board the Carnival Imagination January 2008, sailing from Miami to Grand Cayman & Ocho Rios, Jamaica and rocking with more than 30 bands!

So... what exactly does it mean to be the Party In My Penthouse winner (with a little extra bling)??

• Category 12 Penthouse suite (sleeps up to 4 people)
• Roundtrip flights for you and up to 3 guests on AirTran Airways
• Ground transportation for up to 4 guests
• Hotel accommodations for the night of the pre-party
• VIP embarkation (front of line no matter what time)
• Ultimate TRBVIII Welcome package
• $500 Sail and Sign credit for you and your guests to enjoy onboard
• VIP seating at choice of 1 headlining show in the main room with complimentary champagne
• Priority meet and greet line placement
• Chance to announce one TRB band on stage!
• Admission to sound check for one headlining artist
• Private show in the Penthouse suite by one of our TRBVIII artists, subject to availability
• Personal interview and article about YOU in the 1st day of the TRB onboard caper
• More P.I.M.P. swag than you can handle!

To enter the contest go to http://partyinmypenthouse.com/.

Old Interview/Review - Boundary Jumpers

Boundary Jumpers
Friday, February 04, 2005
MARTY HUGHLEY

Let's put this simply, shall we? David Ryan Harris is a musician you really should go to hear.

His name isn't widely known, and if you've heard him at all, chances are it's been in the role of sideman. But his own work is richly rewarding, eclectic yet accessible, brimming with chops and soul. Rock, funk, soul, blues mingle in refreshing ways that remind you why you liked any or all of those styles in the first place. Highly recommended.

Same goes for Citizen Cope. Like Harris, Cope (as he's called for short; his real name is Clarence Copeland Greenwood) makes music that doesn't conform to simplistic classification. He hasn't had the best of luck getting through the major-label mill and reaching a sizable audience. But he's gaining traction with his second release, the critically praised "The Clarence Greenwood Recordings."

Both singer/songwriter/guitarists play Monday at Berbati's Pan, on a bill headlined by Marc Broussard. All three acts straddle genres, show the influence of Southern roots, can groove well and play with passion, so the evening should have a certain cohesiveness to it as well as variety.

"Everybody has their own take on it," as Harris put it recently by phone. "Everybody's mixed up the pot. Marc has his Louisiana thing, Cope is more East Coast and mine is kind of a Southern thing, but now maybe also So Cal -- though not in a No Doubt way."

Broussard, at least to judge by his first major-label release, "Carencro," isn't nearly as imaginative or as compelling as the others. (Though he does serve as a common connection: Harris co-wrote two songs on "Carencro," and that album's first song includes the line "me and my daddy and a kid named Cope, making music that nobody would hear.")

Harris first emerged in the early 1990s as an Atlanta teenager in a punk/funk band called Follow for Now that tried to squeeze through the black-rock door of opportunity briefly opened by Living Colour. Then, as musical director for Dionne Farris, he helped the former Arrested Development singer reach the Top 10 with her hit single "I Know." In recent years he's played in John Mayer's band.

Harris' big solo shot came in 1997, when he released an album through Sony, on a boutique label led by Pearl Jam producer Brendan O'Brien. It was a brilliant amalgam of the Stevie Wonder, the Allman Brothers and the more earnest side of Prince. But its unclassifiability and the vagaries of record biz politics and promotion doomed the record to relative obscurity. Later, he teamed up with ex-Black Crowes bassist Johnny Colt in Brand New Immortals, issuing an album on Elektra. Harris' more recent works "Soulstice" and "Atlanta" have been put out on his own and are available online. Perhaps the cultural climate is better suited now to accept music that goes beyond category.

"(In the mid-'90s) we didn't have the culture of iTunes and of indie music being low-hanging fruit," he said. "I think the thing that's changed is there being a greater number of people who seek out new things. I don't have to homogenize what I do so much."

Harris won't be bringing a band for this tour, but that shouldn't diminish the power of his presentation. Citizen Cope, in a separate phone interview, recalled being "blown away" seeing Harris open for Farris long ago with a solo acoustic set like the one he'll perform in Portland.

Cope will have a four-piece backing band including players who've worked with the likes of OutKast and Robert Randolph. The inspirations for his character-driven, cinematic soul-rock range from Willie Mitchell's productions for Al Green to Radiohead to the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

"I don't want to sound like anybody else," Cope said. "But at the same time, I want people to enjoy my music and be inspired. Ultimately, people like they sound 'cause they sound like they sound. But you make more of an impact when you change the boundaries of what came before." DAVID RYAN HARRIS

Source: The Oregonian

PhotoShoot from the Days of Olde

Circa '97?














Source: Paxtonimages.com

DRH at the Hotel Cafe

Work It!

Photos from the 8.7.07 John Mayer Tampa show:










And one of JJ just because he's funny:


*These are all photographs I found on the web. If any were taken by you, hit me up so I can credit you properly.

Source: The Interwebs