Wherever You Are (David Mead album) explained

Wherever You Are
Type:EP
Artist:David Mead
Cover:Davidmeadwya.jpg
Released:June 28, 2005
Recorded:2002
Studio:Bearsville Studios and the Barn (Woodstock, New York); Real World Studios (Bath, England)
Genre:Pop-rock
Length:22:37
Label:Eleven Thirty Records
Producer:Stephen Hague
Prev Title:Indiana
Prev Year:2004
Next Title:Tangerine
Next Year:2006

Wherever You Are is an EP by singer-songwriter David Mead, released on Eleven Thirty Records in 2005. "David Mead managed to survive record company legalese and emerge to release the finest tracks from his 2002 recording sessions with Stephen Hague (New Order, Blur, Pet Shop Boys)," John D. Luerssen wrote in a review for AllMusic. "EPs are rarely this accomplished or appealing."

"I recorded the full version with the band in late 2002," Mead told Nashville Rage in 2005. "Right when I turned it in to the record company [RCA, to which he was signed at the time], they merged with another company" — BMG combined RCA Records and J Records to form the RCA Music Group in 2003[1] [2] — "so some artists were dropped. They were actually really very gracious, and gave us most of the rights to the record back. But the thing was, by the time all that legal mumbo jumbo had gone down, I was on to something different and my head was in a much different space. I had started this other record with David Henry because I didn't really know whether or not I was going to get Wherever You Are back, and [''[[Indiana (David Mead album)|Indiana]]] seemed like a more timely thing to put out."[3]

Track listing

All tracks written by David Mead except where noted.

  1. "Wherever You Are" (Mead, Jason Lehning) – 3:37
  2. "Hold On" – 4:08
  3. "Only a Dream" (Mead, Daniel Tashian) – 4:54
  4. "Astronaut" – 3:23
  5. "Make It Right" – 3:36
  6. "How Much" – 2:59

Session outtakes

Personnel

Production notes

Recorded by Graeme Stewart, mixed by Bob Kraushaar (tracks 1, 4, and 6) and Tchad Blake (tracks 2, 3, and 5), and mastered by Mike Marsh. Artwork by Natalie Cox Mead and Håkon Øynes.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Oppelaar . Justin . RCA will lay off 50 as Davis builds team . Variety . 15 January 2022 . January 8, 2003 . Sources close to the company say the promotion and sales departments at both labels will take the brunt, with some additional downsizing in A&R..
  2. Web site: Holloway . Lynette . BMG Buys J Records and Shuffles Executives . The New York Times . 17 January 2022 . C6 . November 20, 2002.
  3. Web site: Wilkins . Jason Moon . Wherever You Are reviews . Dream Away the Miles . 15 January 2022.
  4. Web site: David Mead – Wherever You Are . Discogs . 11 January 2022.