Ain't Talkin' Religion (CD)
Donnie V
2011

Format: CD

This album is also available as an MP3 Download

This is passionate blues played with raw emotion! Singer/songwriter Donnie V continues to record live in the studio on his follow up CD to "Hard Rain Fall" with just acoustic and resonator guitars, harmonicas and the tapping of his boots. There are no overdubs or click tracks just great songs sung from the soul! His wife Leonetta joins in on tamborine on "Wonderful Healer" and "I Have Decided" which Mel Spinnela accompanies with mallet on bass drum. On "Death Letter" you can hear hand clapping by Leonetta, Mel and Mark Neil creating a sound reminiscent of the early Chain Gang recordings of Alan Lomax for The Library of Congress. "Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around" is complicated rhythms as Leonetta pounds a counter beat on the back of Donnie’s Guild Acoustic and Donnie slaps the face of his 1930 National Resonator.

Donnie sings passionately about his own life’s sorrows and a lonely broken world searching for love. The love Found in Jesus!

The CD ends with a solo performance on electric guitar and harmonica. "Tears" is a song Donnie wrote in the 80’s about the loneliness and insecurities experienced by himself as well as so many others!

These are songs with a message to a lost and broken world: Jesus Loves You!!

Click on a song title to listen to a sample:

I Remember
Wonderful Healer
Changin' My Mind
Ain't Talkin' Religion
Death Letter
Nobody's Fault But Mine
So God Can Use Me
Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
I Have Decided
Standin' Here Waitin'
Tears