Available from Dutch Treat Music:
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By Heart-- New
release coming Spring 2002 DTR 1006 (CD)
Way Overdue--The Best of Bill Holland & the Rent's Due Band DTR
1005 (CD) (1998)
A completely remastered compilation of The Best of Bill Holland and the Rent's Due Band, 1974-1981. Sixteen tracks. Also features previously unreleased songs and studio and live performances. Hailed by The Washington Post as a "revelation" and "a motherlode of highlights and rarities."
Players, Fools and Thieves
DTR 1004 (CD) (1995)
Performing Songwriter Magazine rated this album which highlighted Bill's return to the scene, as one of five best indie albums of 1995. Also nominated by the Washington Area Music Assn. for Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year, the album won Holland Best Jazz Vocalist award. DC Scene characterized the album as "a soundtrack to the story of your life."
It also features Holland songs sung and played by Bill as well as John Jennings, Tommy Lepson. Mary Ann Redmond, Bill Baker and tenor sax titans Ron Holloway, Al Willams and Bruce Swaim. Full-range Holland repertoire: ballads, r&b;, power-pop and jazz choices.
True Blue Trio DTR
1003 (Cassette) (1993)
Originally recorded in trio format as a cassette demo for clubs, the jazz-oriented True Blue Trio got leaked to the press. In its review, The Washington Post gave it thumbs up, calling it "soul jazz with sardonic wit and unabashed sentiment." The review spotlighted Holland's reading of "Pennies From Heaven" and Ellington's "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" as "among the album's highlights," adding that the Holland's singing "reflects the humor and, stoic philosophy advanced by the likes of Percy Mayfield and Mose Allison."
Let It Go Live DTR
1002 (LP) (1980)
Recorded from an FM aircheck of a headline performance at Washington's legendary Cellar Door, this album catches the last Rent's Due Band-- Paul Bell, guitar; Larry Strother, tenor sax; Ronnie Newmyer, bass, and Chuck Sullivan, drums, at their peak. Included are the killer-diller tunes that didn't make it onto album form, such as "Ernie's Place," "Crossing the Line" and "You, My Lover."
It's About Time DTR
1001 (LP) (1979)
The Washington Post heralded this album as the work of "a first-rate composer and lyricist with an explosive band whose songs range from existential funk to tender ballads to joyous fusion." On guitar on this album are Rent's Due alumni John Jennings, best known for his later work with Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Keith Grimes, who was Eva Cassidy's guitarist throughout her short career. Featured are progressive station favorites, "Talk that Talk" and "Hamburger Heaven" with Jennings and "Feel That Fire" and "Run or Fight" with Grimes.
If It Ain't One Thing...
Adelphi 4104
(LP) (1975)
Voted one of WHFS FM albums of the year, 1976. Included in Village Voice columnist Robert Christgau's book, "Rock Albums of the '70's." Says Christgau: "If I were an a&r man and heard some unknown put across songs as out-of-the-ordinary as 'This Fourth Year' and 'Do The Mambo,' I'd say to hell with the cracked voice and sign him." "B+"
CDs are $15.00 including U.S. first class postage. Oveaseas $20.00 including air mail postage. Cassettes are $8.00/$13. LPs are $10/$15. Please send check,or money order made out to Bill Holland and mail to Dutch Treat Music, [address removed]. Paypal accepted at [email protected].
