Album Of The Week

"Efter att ha lyssnat på Dave Desmeliks 'Among Friends' kan jag bara ställa mig frågan, hur kan denne amerikan från North Carolina gått under radarn under så pass många år på den här sidan Atlanten, trots att det med åren blivit ett stort antal soloskivor och även handlat om att han har spelat i några olika gruppkonstellationer?"

- Torbjörn Berlin / Berlin Calling -

"Dave Desmelik är en klassisk trubadur-rockare som bryter sig fram och destillerar fram guldkornen genom sin röst och förmåga att trollbinda sin publik, det vill säga oss lyssnare. Ett album som förenar det bästa av den amerikanska roots-musiken. Som en trubadur som går vidare där Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez med flera skapat sin konst i den genren."

- Micheles Kindh / Blaskan -

"Dave Desmelik’s 'Among Friends' includes Dave’s versions of songs written by Bow Thayer, Jimmy Davidson, Steve Mayone, David Philips, Nolan McKelvey, Betsy Franck, Laura Blackley, Jay Brown, Aaron Woody Wood, and an alternate rendition of one of Dave’s songs, 'Tear It Down', from 'Afterthoughts, 2003, as it was originally written."

- Kenneth Bremer / Blue Desert -

"A new album from North Carolina’s Dave Desmelik is always welcome here at Lonesome Highway. Despite lack of major commercial success, Dave keeps putting out his independent releases because he truly believes in the power of music."

- Paul McGee / Lonesome Higway -

"Dave Desmelik’s talent is in his arrangements. Each song has its crafty balance of instruments laid out with skill. He manages to negotiate the suave and edgy through a stylistic touch. His lone original track, 'Tear It Down', concludes the album with rural harmonica smoke drifting through a Rick Danko-like performance."

- John Apice / Americana Highways -

"Like on most of his previous records, U.S. folky Dave Desmelik is telling stories taken from the daily lives in the songs on his new album, ‘Among Friends’. However, this time 9 tracks are not self composed but taken from the catalogues of his folk troubadour friends. All songs that have touched him personally and emotionally. He renders his cover versions with massive respect for the work of the original performers and honors them by selecting their songs for his 18th album."

- Valére Sampermans / Rootstime -

" All the things Dave Desmelik has done on 'Among Friends', he has done with his own hands and voice, a pleasant and warm atmosphere, are dominant factors heard on the album’s material."

- Branimir Lokner / Time Machine Music -