During that time Deasy also released a semi-acoustic solo album called "Spring Lies Waiting", produced by Brown. When they finally succeeded, they released two more CDs "Reliance" and "So Close to Home," the latter consisting of songs the band had played live for several years but never recorded. When Matchbox 20 signed, the Gathering Field was forgotten, and the struggling band attempted to be released from their contract. The album charted on the Billboard Top 100 album chart, Radio and Records and various other industry publications but ultimately the CD and group got lost in the shuffle, largely due to Matchbox 20.
Soon after they signed to Atlantic Records and "Lost in America" was re-released, there was turmoil at the label.
Based on the success of the independent release which bore the same name, the group garnered a major label deal with Atlantic Records, who re-released the CD. However, the band's popularity really skyrocketed when one of the region's most powerful rock radio stations, WDVE, began playing a song called, "Lost in America" and it remained in rotation for over 7 months. (After DeFade left the group he was replaced with Joe Zelek.) Their first independent release, entitled "The Gathering Field", was met with great reception around the region and they started playing to packed clubs. The Gathering Field line-up ultimately became Bill Deasy vocals and acoustic guitar), Dave Brown (lead guitar), Eric Riebling (bass) and Ray DeFade (drums). An obscure, rare recording was born out of that weekend, appropriately titled "The Lost Weekend" which was never made commercially available. The evidence of that is right here.The Gathering Field's legacy began in a burned-out third floor in Grove City, Pennsylvania when Bill Deasy, Dave Brown and Rusted Root percussionist Jim DiSpirito hunkered down for the weekend with guitars, tequila, microphones and recording gear. Rusted Root takes a lot of unnecessary critical crap for their alterna-tribe appearance, but the bottom line is that this band throws down musically and has continued to grow and explore. There's the nocturnal voodoo crawl of "Food & Creative Love," the raucous, celebratory "Cruel Sun," the moving acoustic guitar shimmer in "Scattered," and the trance-like snake dance orgy of "Back to the Earth" that closes the set, just to name a few. Disc two kicks off with a beautiful reading of "Send Me on My Way," that is followed with the massive percussion workout "Ecstatic Drums," which segues into a stunning version of "Ecstasy." In other words, there's no let up in quality.
John's "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" in concert, while pumping the gritty soul of "Weave" into the cover of Neil Young's "Powderfinger." This is a stunner in the grain of Michael Glabicki's voice one can hear the rambling ghost of the Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce if he were backed by the souled-out excellence of RR's Liz Berlin and Jenn Wertz. In these songs, one segues into another - or gives the appearance of doing so - as "Welcome to My Party" cascades into Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," and shapeshifts into "Cat Turned Blue" from 1994's When I Woke seamlessly, funky insistence intact, then comes back to the present with "Women Got My Money," that feels informed by Dr.
The material from the aforementioned album comes off far better in this setting the inherent nocturnal funk slithers and pop and polyrhythmic invention and a slippery, driving bass throb guiding the band into the backbone slipping ether. Recorded during Rusted Root's Welcome to My Party tour in 2003, this double-disc presents seven of that album's 11 cuts, as well as 15 others in fine, raw, loose-groove, spunky form.
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