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THE BiTS INTERVIEw: Dave Arcari

Dave Arcari describes himself as a Scottish alt.blues

troubadour. He is a full-time touring musician and
songwriter endorsed by National Reso-Phonic Guitars. His

home is on the shores of the bonnie banks and braes of the

beautiful Loch Lomond in Scotland.

He is a prolific writer of outstanding music based on the

blues. He is currently working on a new album “Still Friends”

to be released in November.

Ian McKenzie spoke to him on the telephone.

DA: Hello.

BiTS: Dave, is that you?

DA: Hi, Ian. How you doing?

BiTS: It's Ian McKenzie. Yes, I'm doing okay, thank you very much.
First of all, I apologise for the last time which was most
unfortunate. No way I could avoid letting you down.

DA: Can you bear with me just two secs, Ian.

BiTS: Okay. Everything's okay now anyway. Dave, I want to talk

to you about the new album and about what I think is a somewhat
unusual strategy for marketing it. Tell me about the album itself.
How long has it been in the making?

DA: Well, a lot of the songs in this album I wrote and were released
a long, long, long time ago when I was first starting out doing the
solo thing. Twenty, 25 years ago when I first started doing the solo

thing, there were a few things. I always had a tendency to write
songs and then go into the studio and record them. So they never,
ever had the time to evolve, let's say. Subsequently I suppose, I
think back then, when I was first starting out doing the solo thing,
I had a different approach. Let's say I just didn't have much

confidence in my singing voice, I certainly didn't like it, and I
probably hid behind a bit of a growl, let's say. That was my way
of trying to basically cover up the fact that I thought I couldn't
sing. So there was that and also now when I listen back to these
early albums, I feel like I've done everything at breakneck
speed. So I really felt that for both these two reasons a n d
the evolution reasons, I felt the songs had evolved and