Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Cobbwebs

I write songs for a band based in Nashville called The Cobbwebs. The band consists of Del Bazemore and Chris Sanders. Del plays bass, keyboards, drums, tambourine, handclaps, and is the lead singer. Chris plays guitar, drums, handclaps, and also does vocals. He is the producer and recording engineer, too. I write some of the lyrics, and Chris writes lyrics and music. Del lives in Columbia. I am currently living in Greenville, and Chris lives in Nashville. I met Del around 1988 at Belk, and I met Chris about a year later. Chris was a student at Memphis State, majoring in recording. Del and I drove out there one summer to do some recording. We also hooked up with a guy who was producing a compilation of bands around Columbia, and we were included on that. It was called "The Burning of Columbia", but the guy took our money, and we had very little to show for it, other than a cassette tape. Live and learn. We decided it would be best if we produced our own material. We can't perform it live, but people who have heard it say that it is really good. We like to think of it as "original '60's rock n roll". We are heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Monkees, The Byrds, The Hollies, and other bands. We also have a website--www.thecobbwebs.com. We did one cd in 2001 called "Magic Boat". It was picked up by an indie promoter. It got radio airplay in Oregon, as well as in Europe. In fact, we were on the top-ten indie releases for 2001 in Bosnia, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. One German reviewer said our songs were "good for drinking". We took that as a compliment. After the success of "Magic Boat", offers started coming our way from concerts to other stuff. We had a disagreement on how to proceed, and we split up for a time. Chris and I were still writing and working together. Del went on to other things. About 6 months ago, we started talking about doing another cd. In January, Del and I went out to Nashville to record a new cd. It took a week or marathon sessions, but we got it done. Hopefully, it will be released soon. The tentative title is "One More Time", which is a song I wrote. We will be giving out autographs at a later date.

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