Denison Witmer

Tagged by many music journalists among the probably songwriters to fill up the void remaining by Elliott Smith within the acoustic indie singer/songwriter movement, Denison Witmer catalogs the encounters of youthful adulthood in almost painfully honest fine detail. With a smooth and sensitive tone of voice that perfectly fits his laid-back 1970s California pop creation and subtly expressive acoustic guitar work, he has truly gone from composing in his journal to getting a romantic of like-minded performers like Damien Jurado and Pedro the Lion on the period of several albums. We were young in Lancaster, PA, Witmer found your guitar at age 16 and was quickly showing enough guarantee to draw the eye from the Innocence Mission’s Don Peris. As Peris became Witmer’s musical coach, he’d oversee and play acoustic guitar and key pad on his apprentice’s 1st recordings, 2000’s River Bends EP as well as the much-heralded Safe and sound Away. His status rising among vocalist/songwriters and bolstered by looks on the summertime festival picture, Witmer would to remain with Burnt Toast Vinyl fabric for 2001’s The ’80s E.P. and 2002’s Of Pleasure & Sorrow, the last mentioned finding him growing into more electric powered noises and having his initiatives compensated with overwhelmingly advantageous reviews and comprehensive UNITED STATES tour schedules. Philadelphia Songs implemented later that calendar year before Recovered premiered in summer months 2003 on Fugitive. HAVE YOU BEEN a Dreamer? proclaimed Witmer’s debut over the Militia Group 2 yrs afterwards; the label after that reissued Safe and sound Away in Oct 2006 being a twin record in conjunction with the EP HAVE YOU BEEN a Sleeper? (a tie-in towards the Dreamer record) and many live bonus monitors.