Yesterday Motel

    This little independent masterpiece, another recorded on portable digital equipment in the backrooms and dens of friends and musical compadres, is Guelph-based singer/songwriters Teichroeb’s second solo effort, and it deserves all the attention it can get.
    Accompanied by fine young traditional instrumentalists on banjo, pedal steel, mandolin and guitars - they’re all part of the fertile Guelph folk underground -Teichroeb’s husky, unsentimental voice weaves through 11 remarkably accomplished folk/country-rock originals, among which “I Stole The Rose From Texas, “ ”Put Your Big Coat On (a paean to Ontario’s Winters),” “No Place Like Home” and “I’ll be old” are outstanding.
    Yesterday Motel, which will be showcased at The Horseshoe Feb. 8, is evidence of a new and powerful voice in the roots music arena.
Toronto Star – Greg Quill, January 27, 2001

Yesterday Motel is Dave Teichroeb’s follow-up to 1998’s critically acclaimed Dog Tales. Ten heartfelt singer/songwriter songs anchored by understated, gritty vocals and acoustic guitar. This is your inside view into the diary of Teichroeb’s often rocky and well traveled personal life. A genre-bending album that blends Canadian folk with Texas blues-rock and pop to make for a very non-traditional, captivating listen. Yesterday Motel is Mixed by Scott Merritt (Fred Eaglesmith), produced by Dave Teichroeb and self recorded by most of the musicians involved. The tracks are gussied up by many of Guelph’s finest including - Lewis Melville (banjo, pedal steel), Jeff Bird (bass, harmonica, fiddle), the kramdens (drums, keys, guitars), John Charlton (electric guitar, clavinet) and Tannis Slimmon (vocals), Nick Tjelios and Chris Terhune (mandolin), Marty Posen (guitar),
Mike Ostler and Peter Turpin (bass).

Release shows (with my red hot band):
October 20th    Kitchener   the Boathouse (Victoria Park)
November 3rd     Guelph    the Boathouse (Gordon Street)
Feb. 8                Toronto   Horseshoe

email dave @ davet . ca (remove spaces)

Yesterday Motel Musical Descriptions

Total Playing Time 52:19

1. No Place Like Home (5:46)
A mid tempo pop rock story song inspired by the Wizard of Oz. Cowboy
surf guitar, distorted bass and talk/sung vocals are layered over top of
funky clavinet/guitar riffing. It slowly builds over revolving chord
arrangements and ends with a musical tip of the hat.

2. Higher Place (4:35)
A slow, heartfelt folk song with gentle lyrics and vocals. Piano,
mandolin, pedal steel and Tannis Slimmon's harmony vocal are woven
around a declaration of love.

3. Jack & Maria (4:35)
A sad up-tempo song that crosses lines between classic singer/songwriter
story telling and acoustic rock. Three acoustics piano and organ change
texture overtop of a driving bass line and snare.

4. I'll Be Old (3:56)
Mid tempo country/folk song about knowing when you're really old. Swing pedal steel and old style mandolin dance around the acoustic guitar
melody line.

5. I Stole the Rose From Texas (4:24)
In this up-tempo country/rock rave Canada meets Texas musically and
lyrically. Animated with banjo, fiddle, harmonica and a growling '53
Gibson.

6. Mud And Sticks and Stones (4:47) - no drums
A slow, sad guitar/vocal/bass arrangement that recalls the end of a
relationship. Tannis Slimmon's harmonizes beautifully on the call back
vocal.

7. Marfa Lights (4:42)
Driving Texas blues-rock story song that sheds insight into this west
Texas phenomena. Built around Horace Barnet's old grumbling Gibson
electric is a spacey repeating strat line thick with tremolo and lots of
organ.

8. Put You Big Coat On (3:20)
Piano and pedal steel act as musical cold fronts in this waltzey song
that feels and sounds like winter. Written as the winter arrived one
lonely cold fall day.

9. Inside Of me (4:40)
Fast snappy snare highlights this soul bearing folk/blues song that
features mandola and a very fast acoustic solo by Marty Posen.

10. Chase the Sun (5:36) - no drums
A slow, guitar/voice anthem for anyone who has seen the other side of
the hill. Piano, pedal steel and a lonely solo on the Gibson helps
paint a picture of miles and miles of highway begging to driven.

11. Chase the Sun Reprise (4:56)
Over the repeating chorus of Chase the Sun many of Yesterday Motel's
musical guests and the kramdens take a turn at the wheel and rock things
up to speed before gently parking for the night.