It looks like interviews following a review are becoming a regular feature on jazz-not-jazz. Well, I can’t argue with that. Here’s an interview with the singer/songwriter/musician Anthony David about his debut album 3 Chords & The Truth, the music scene in Atlanta and his neighbourhood. And yes, it makes me a little envious…I have worse weather here in Hamburg and no Julie Dexter living down the road.

Q: Please tell me where you’re coming from musically, who has influenced you, and how do you describe your music to someone who haven’t heard of Anthony David yet.

Anthony David: I have recently come across a description for my music that I like that someone gave to me. They described it as Millenium blues. I think that is very fitting because learning guitar I quickly realized that all music is based on blues. Even though I deal with different rythyms and styles, my aproach to it is to find the “blues” in it. Me being from the south, the blues came quite naturally and everything else I attempt to do is spoken with a blues accent so to speak. My favorite influences are Anita Baker, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder - pretty much all the typical ones. Can’t really go wrong with certain people, and alot of rappers cause I grew up on mostly that. Slick Rick, Big Daddy Kane, folks like that.

Q: How come you have started singing in public relatively late in your life?

Anthony David: I started singing in public later because that’s how long it took me to have something to say. At least in music. Also being from a small town (Savannah GA) it’s not a common thing for somone to want to be a musician for a living and mean it. It took a while for me to accept it and pursue it. But, mostly it wasn’t until I started to put things together that I didn’t think I had heard out there. Thought maybe people could benefit from it somehow.

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