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• Artist: David Clement
• Album: Your Free Gift
• Label: indie
• Year of Release: 2002
• ME Rating:
• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-04-08

I would like to introduce one of the most poorly designed album covers that have come across my desk. It's really sad when an artist spends the time and money to put out a CD and they don't do any work on the packaging. David Clement has even gone so far as to package this disc in a paper digi-pack but gone with a three-color design. And it really is too bad because David Clement's music is different enough to get noticed. He has pretty much been playing guitar since he was 7 and hasn't looked back once. He has even secured the guitar talents of none other than Marc Ribot to help out on Your Free Gift. There is a bit of a story involved with this album so I will try to abbreviate. David's first CD, Be More Like Me, was a critical success noted in Billboard and Hits Magazine. To follow up the mostly acoustic format he wanted to bring in a full band. He looked for all the artists that would he felt would make a great album, including Marc Ribot, and recorded Hard Candy. It was to come out on Beauty/Mercury Records but when the Universal/Polygram merger happened Clement was left without a label and even worse, his CD. Instead of jumping through the legal hoops to get his album released he decided to rerecord most of the songs. That's where Your Free Gift fits in. The music is diverse and shows David as quite an adaptable singer/songwriter and a good judge of musicians. The music on Your Free Gift is ready for mainstream and has enough twists to keep it different. This intelligent songwriter may have his day in the spotlight yet.

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