DRAMARAMA SWAMP SONG TV

It was just a matter of recording it in fits and starts whenever we could get back into the studio. So it was no problem getting back together, so to speak. “We’ve been playing together regularly for all these years. The drummer (Tony Snow) and bass player (Mike Davis) started playing with me in the 90s.

The other one (Peter Wood), I think I met him in junior high school. The one guitar player, Marc (Englert), I’ve known him since I was three or four years old. We’ve been together for long since before the band ever started. When I say we got back together, it’s myself and the two guitar players, who graduated high school together. “We got back together and we’ve been playing together regularly ever since.

“We had taken about ten years off through the 90s to the beginning of the 2000s,” Easdale explains. But, as Easdale told American Songwriter in a lengthy interview, the rust factor, well, it wasn’t a factor at all for the band, because of regular live performances and a built-in chemistry bred of familiarity. There hasn’t been a Dramarama full-length album since 2005’s Everybody Dies.

DRAMARAMA SWAMP SONG TV

The band’s new album Color TV features some of lead singer/songwriter John Easdale’s fiercest and most moving compositions, while the instrumentalists around him pound away with the energy of rookies while exuding the confidence of veterans. + LIVE Show in LA TONIGHT.In true rock and roll survivor fashion, Dramarama, a band that first came blasting out of New Jersey in the mid-80s with the memorable single “Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)”, is returning from their longest recording hiatus yet with one of their finest collections of songs.

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