🎵 AotW David & David WELCOME TO THE BOOMTOWN (A&M SP 5134)

[LPJim]

David & David are David Baerwald & David Ricketts

A1 Welcome To The Boomtown 5:30
A2 Swallowed By The Cracks 4:16
A3 Ain't So Easy 4:50
A4 Being Alone Together 5:31
B1 A Rock For The Forgotten 4:25
B2 River's Gonna Rise 4:28
B3 Swimming In The Ocean 3:58
B4 All Alone In The Big City 4:37
B5 Heroes 3:07 -- written by Baerwald

• Drums – Ed Greene (2)
• Engineer – John Beverly Jones
• Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Judy Clapp
• Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
• Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
• Producer – Davitt Sigerson
• Programmed By [Programming] – Phil Shenale*
• Recorded By, Mixed By – John Beverly Jones
• Vocals [Additional Vocals] – Camille Henry, Noland Void, Toni Childs
• Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Resonator Guitar [Dobro], Piano, Drums, Keyboards, Harmonica, Lap Steel Guitar – David + David
• Written-By – David Baerwald, David Ricketts (tracks: A1 to B4)

Recorded at Skyline, A&M, Mad Hatter and Capitol Studios
Mixed at Capitol Studios

WELCOME TO THE BOOMTOWN entered the Billboard Top 200 on August 16, 1986
It charted for 38 weeks and peaked at # 39
The title song reached # 37 as a single

Issued as CD 5134


JB

 

[AM Matt]

What a great CD!!! Too bad there was no follow up because David Baerwald went solo. Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[jfiedler17]

Great album indeed! "Welcome to the Boomtown" has definitely got to be one of my favorite lost 45s of the late '80s. It's not the most commercial song in the world, admittedly - the lyric is anything but uplifting - but it's a deceptively catchy song, and the production and arrangement of the song are absolutely brilliant. It's one of the more ambient rock songs of its era.

You can find a full article (penned by yours truly) about the album here if you're interested in reading more about the duo. Though this was the only album they ever technically released as a duo, both Baerwald and Ricketts continued to work together, and they'd go on - both as a team and individually - to play a big role in the success of many a later female pop star, including Toni Childs, Meredith Brooks, and most famously, Sheryl Crow.