Artist: David Ball
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #69 May-June 2007
David Ball – Heartaches By The Number
David Ball’s music changes as often as his hat. He developed his chops playing jazzy country-folk in Austin with Uncle Walt’s Band (with Champ Hood and Walter Hyatt) before making the move to Nashville. He struck double-platinum with the catchy, commercial “Thinkin’ Problem” but then got mired in modern countrypolitan. Heartaches By The Number, Ball’s [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #55 Jan-Feb 2005
David Ball – Freewheeler
This disc’s title comes from the elegant, Jesse Winchester-penned set-closer, but it also describes the uncanny facility with which David Ball glides across, and merges, genres and eras. The lone surviving member of the seminal South Carolina roots trio Uncle Walt’s Band, Ball has straddled Austin and Nashville over the years, interspersing life on the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
David Ball – Amigo
Those who were introduced to the teenage David Ball through his boyish tenor with Uncle Walt’s Band, and those who discovered him a couple of decades later through the honky-tonk twang of “Thinkin’ Problem”, could be forgiven for thinking they were hearing entirely different singers. It was as if the junior partner in Uncle Walt’s [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
David Ball – For the sake of the single
Just like St. Paul, David Ball had his life changed by a sudden revelation. Ball, though, wasn’t riding a donkey on the road to Damascus when the epiphany arrived. He was driving his car through South Carolina. “I was at a stop light on the Isle of Palms,” the singer recalls, “and Randy Travis’ ‘On [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
Dwight Yoakam / David Ball – Erwin Center (Austin, TX)
There is no doubt in my mind that Dwight Yoakam is the smoothest crooner in country music today, and that Pete Anderson is one of country’s best guitar players. I’ve been a fan of Yoakam for over 10 years but had never seen him until this show. Current country hitmaker David Ball, previously a member [...]
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