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Mr. Lincoln A short biography
Mr. Lincoln was born in the spring of 1997 in the basement of a three-story apartment building on Harlem St., in Providence, RI, by three like-minded individuals with too much time on their hands - and an ambition to do something different. David Bourget, Adam DiTomasso, and Eric Correia started writing songs from the get go, and looked forward to weekend shows with friends and family coming together often to enjoy the music that they made. Time seemed to pass slowly then, but it didn’t take too long for them to find management to put them in front of packed beer halls and festival crowds. Hollis Smith, of Boston, Mass., a mentor of Dave’s, joined the band in early 1999, and brought with him a guitar playing and songwriting talent that can be heard in every studio recording and live performance.
Soon after Hollis joined the band, Mr. Lincoln headed into the studio to record the 12 song, unreleased, Wetting The Bed (1999) in a friend’s basement studio. The tracks were eventually used interchangeably on demo CD’s, as the band formed an agreement with a startup record company from Cape Cod, Mass., called Granite Groove Records, who put them in the studio immediately to record their first CD release, Bread and Butter (2000), which included revamped versions of many of the songs from Wetting The Bed. The new CD garnered the band more fans, and followers from New Jersey to Maine would regularly make the trek to see the band play in their home area of Providence, RI and Boston, Mass. Though the band has severed ties with Granite Groove, they recently released their second full length CD, Everybody almost went somewhere -- (2003) on the Providence based Big Chicklet Records label, and is the finest example of Mr. Lincoln’s music, and diversity, to date. The CD features Evan Marcantonio, a gifted percussionist and good friend of the band, plating everything from timbales to the didgeridoo, texturing their sound, as well as giving it a delicacy that good songwriting lends itself to, rather than requires.
Mr. Lincoln has become an institution for its fans, and more than a hobby for the foursome. After five plus years, the quartet sees no end in sight, and requires nothing from its audience but an appreciation for their effort, and requires nothing less from themselves but the best that they can hope to give the crowd that came to see them. Mr. Lincoln prides itself as being difficult to classify, but universally appealing, as comparisons to Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, Barenaked Ladies, and Talking Heads are made regularly by promoters and the band’s fans. With songwriting that is both witty and whimsical, while being thoughtful and thought provoking, jammy, but centered, and aggressive, while not overbearing, Mr. Lincoln is one of the finest bands that Rhode Island has had around in quite some time.
Distinctions:
Jam band of the Year nominees -- Providence Phoenix, 2002
2nd Place, Raw Music Invitational, Providence, RI, Spring 2001
Semi finalists, Titan Magazine Battle of the Bands, 2002
Drive time airplay on 94.1 WHJY by Paul and Al
CD Recordings:
Wetting the Bed (Mr. Lincoln, 1999); Bread and Butter (Granite Groove Records, 2000); Everybody almost went somewhere -- (Big Chicklet Records, 2003); A Call to Action, benefit compilation (2003) live performance of Dowdy Smack’s "Monkey Boy" |
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