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PRESS REVIEWS 2003
THE TRUCKS
See Magazine #495 May 2003
As Dave Martineau puts aside the throes of payroll at his day job, we discuss his band’s history. And I do mean
history.
Dave, a multi-instrumentalist who can play anything remotely resembling a guitar, along with his brother–drummer
Paul Martineau–and bassist Fred LaRose have been playing together as The Trucks for 21 years; relative newbie,
Gary Bowman, joined them on keyboards seven years ago.
From the number of years they’ve been playing together, you’d expect a long discography, but The Trucks only released
their first album last year.
"We’ve all been in this end of the business, performance- wise, for all our careers, but we also worked behind
the scenes as session players for a lot of really successful recording projects, explains Martineau. "We just
never really did a lot for ourselves. We put all our energy and everything into all these other projects."
After years of being sidemen, the members of the Trucks finally squeezed in some time for their own project and
recorded their self-titled debut over the expanse of a few years.
"I’m quite happy with [the CD]. It definitely captures what the band does," he says. "Which is a
lot of multi-instrumentalism and a lot of different bags and fields because we all come from different musical
backgrounds."
Although fans of The Trucks would probably say the album has been too long coming, they shouldn’t expect another
one soon: the members of The Trucks are already in the midst of more side projects. Dave explains: "Well,
right now, my brother and myself have our own studio that we work in and we’re [producing] another album for Laura
[Vinson, the acclaimed country/roots singer-songwriter and Dave’s wife]. Fred and Bo[wman] have been working with
a recording artist named Lisa Hewitt, who’s a young up-and-comer in the country music end of things. So that keeps
us busy on both sides of the fences, plus my brother and I perform with Laura’s band quite a bit.
"So, when we can find the time to put the Trucks things in the schedule, that’s the next thing on the list
to do."
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