Dave Cloud

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Dave Cloud is a rock and roll legend from Nashville, Tennessee. Not surprisingly, fans and critics alike have used the word "shamanistic" to describe Nashville's Dave Cloud. By day a volunteer book reader for the blind, Cloud undergoes a transformation at night, and for over three decades has entertained patrons of local dive bar Springwater, often with his band The Gospel of Power. Cloud's unpredictable performances can be uproarious, jaw-droppingly bizarre events, delighting some while frightening others. His music—an amalgam of experimental garage rock and lounge crooning—defies easy categorization, but his delivery makes the experience hard to forget. As The Sunday Times observed, "Cloud's bellowed vocals, Beefheart-style beat poetry, hefty riffs and freestyle wig-outs achieve a transcendental psychedelic primitivism."^[1]

In April 2008 Fire released Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power's fourth album Pleasure Before Business, featuring all new material and a guest appearance by Nina Persson of The Cardigans. Another tour of Norway and UK followed.

Cloud has appeared in several films, videos, and television programs, including Harmony Korine's film Gummo, an episode of the TV comedy show Travel Sick, and the music video for Bobby Bare's "Are You Sincere." In spring 2008 Cloud was featured in a TV ad campaign for Budweiser beer in the UK.

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power continue to record and perform in Nashville. ^[2]