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10 • The Red and Black • Friday, September 21, 1990
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Dreams So Real comes back home to support new album
By CRAIG HESTER
Staff Writer
If Dreams So Real’s latest
album, “Gloryline,” sounds the
matic, it’s an accident, says singer-
songwriter/guitarist, Barry
Marler.
The local band, whose music is
becoming increasingly distant from
'he typical Athens sound, spent the
summer tearing down the walls of
their last album “Jericho” and
building a new album they feel is a
better reflection of who they are.
The new album “is more like
what we really sound like," Marler
said “‘Rough Night in Jericho’ was
more of an interpretation (by the
producer) of what we sound like."
Every song on “Gloryline," in one
way or another, speaks about
finding your own path and being
an individual.
“Rough Night in Jericho," the
band’s second album, was “a little
slicker, a little more produced. We
went more for emotion on this
album,” Marler said.
Dreams So Real formed six years
ago when bassist Trent Allen and
drummer Drew Worsham met
Marler in an Athens record store.
They played together simply to im
prove as musicians and ended up
melding ns a band.
Their first album, “Father’s
House,” was produced by Coyo-
te/Twin Tone, a small independent
label, but the latest two were on
the major label of Arista Records.
Marler credits the thematic ties
in “Gloryline" to his mindset at the
time he wrote the songs.
“It (the theme) is the kind of
thing that just happened,” Marler
said. “If I had set out to write 10
songs that were tied together, I
probably wouldn’t have been able
to do it.”
The title song was inspired by an
experience Marler had as a child
when he stumbled upon a Ku Klux
Klan rally one night.
"I was old enough to know what
was going on. There was a huge
cross, they had their hoods on and
they were all in a ring around it,”
he said.
“I could never, ever, forget that.”
Marler says he wrote the song
not to scold the South, but to show
how the region has evolved and
where it’s headed. As the song
says, ‘This train is bound for
glory."
The theme of the songs reflects
what is happening to Dreams So
Real, Marler said. With this
album, the band searched for their
own place and sound.
As a result, “Gloryline” features
several new instruments, a backup
vocal from B52s member Cindy
Wilson and a cover of “Day After
Day,” by 70s rock group Badfinger.
"Generally, bands, artists and
songwriters tend to start out with a
lot of disparate elements and even
tually pyramid them into a thing
that’s a real monolithic style,”
Marler said.
Marler said Dreams So Real ie
going 180 degrees in the opposite
direction.
“But, that’s the way I want to be
I want to just keep pulling in as
many disparate elements as I pos
sibly can. The next record may be
even more multi-faceted.”
Two months ago the band added
another guitarist, Peter Stroub
from Atlanta.
‘Tie’s not on the record, but he’s
fleshed out the live sound,” Marler
said, which should come in handy
tonight when Dreams So Real play
the Georgia Theatre.
Dreams So Real: (L-R) Drew Worsham, Barry Marler and Trent Allen have added
Peter Stroub to their lineup and will test out their new, 'fleshed out’ sound Friday night.
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