About David Roche
I am a singer/songwriter from a family of famous singer/songwriters. It’s hard to get out of the way of the music in my family. I’ve written songs and performed with my wife, my daughter, my sisters, my in-laws, my neice. the list goes on and on. It’s a nice situation if not a little strange.
You may know of The Roches. My three sisters have done it all and are widely regarded as a cutting edge avante garde group of singer songwriter musicians in the folk genre. They are a huge influence on me. My niece Lucy Wainwright-Roche is a singer-songwriter currently making a splash all over the place with her music. Her dad is the singer songwriter Loudon Wainwright III whom I recently got to sing with, along with members of his family on The Charlie Poole Project which recently won the Grammy for best Traditional Folk Album. Congrats to Loudon & Dick Connette! Greg Trooper is a renowned songwriter who also happens to be my brother in law. And wait til you hear the cousins! Everywhere I turn there are people writing songs and it’s something I’ve been doing regularly since I was five years old.
“Harp Trouble In Heaven” is a record that took me a long time to get around to recording and the songs are mostly all love songs although in ways you may not expect. I was inspired by the the good fortune of being in a close family and the songs are evocative of this. “Harp Trouble In Heaven” was beautifully produced by Rob Morsberger which featured a host of terrific players and singers, most prominently Brian Dunne on the drums and Paul Ossola on the bass. They sound just great. I wrote the songs and sang them all and played a lot of guitar. My ever loving wife, Mary Mullally, wrote one of the songs with me. My sisters gave some cool harmonies. Rob is a terrific musician and producer who co-wrote two of the tracks.
I’ve convinced a couple of my talented and close buddies to play these songs with me live. And these guys are David Kumin on bass and Michael Graves on drums. We have been doing gigs around New York as “The Dave Roche Band” for about a year. It’s so much fun to work with these pals and I should also mention Paranoid Larry. This is a guy who’s songwriting cannot be over-hyped and we have been in his “imaginary band” for a lot of wonderful shows here in New York. You must see it to believe it.
