NICOLE GORDON, LISA O’KANE AND LAUREN ADAMS COVER ERNEST
Three new albums from friends feature tunes of mine.
Nicole Gordon's latest, All My Change, includes covers of both “Doubtin’ Blues” and
“My Baby Loves Me.” You can download it from iTunes or get the CD at CDBaby.

Lisa O’Kane has recorded my song “It Don’t Hurt” as the title track
to her new album. Here’s an excerpt from the Cybercountry.com review:

The plaintive acoustic title track, “It Don’t Hurt” is a classic
of its genre, penned by acclaimed storyteller/songwriter
Ernest Troost, who also plays guitar on this cut. Lisa sings,
“Shut all the windows / Pull down the shades /
Daddy’s in a mood tonight / Daddy’s in a rage.”
It’s a story of a woman who’s pretty much seen all of life’s meanness,
but after a while, she shrugs, it don’t hurt. Heartbreaking…

You can download the complete review here.
You can hear samples and buy the album on iTunes or from Amazon.
For more on the album, check out this article in New Music Weekly .

Lauren Adams (host of the Americana Music Circle) has done a rockin' electric version of my
"Evangeline" on her latest release, Secret Heart, which you can hear and buy at CDBaby.

VIDEO INTERVIEW NOW ONLINE
I discussed some of my latest projects in an interview at the recent BMI dinner.
You can watch it at the BMI site.

ERNEST'S ANIMATED SCORES
The REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival at Disney Hall in Los Angeles
featured several animated films by Michael Sporn, including “Dr. DeSoto,” the
Oscar-nominated short I scored. For more about the filmmaker,
visit his blog, where you can read about our collaborations.

ERNEST SCORES “CRASHING” One of my latest feature projects, “Crashing,” premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and was the opening-night feature at the GenArt Festival. It’s directed by Gary Walkow and stars Campbell Scott, Lizzy Caplan, Izabella Miko, and Alex Kingston. For more info, and to hear my music in the trailer, visit the film’s website.

You can download my album, “ALL THE BOATS ARE GONNA RISE,” from
iTunes or payplay.fm, or order a CD from CD Baby; check the sites to hear sample clips.
I'll have copies for sale at my live shows, too.

REVIEWS
All the Boats Are Gonna Rise shows the keen storytelling skill of Ernest Troost.
Pointedly less impressionistic and lyrical than most blues, Troost's songs are rooted
instead in character, situation, and narrative. Adeptly fingerpicked guitar backs his
clear, expressive singing. Troost's style and subject matter recall Dylan, Dave Alvin,
and (especially for his concentration on life's darker side) Richard Thompson--
enviable company indeed. Such comparisons are not lightly made: Every song here
is a keeper. Favorites include the murder ballad "Evangeline," with its haunted
protagonist; the simple, John Hurt-like "This Field"; "Train to Kokomo," a series of
sharply etched vignettes; and the appropriately named "Disturbing Blues," about
a mother who methodically dismembers her child as he learns to make
and respond to music.
—Tom Hyslop, Blues Revue Magazine

Troost is known primarily as a film composer (cult giant-worm movie “Tremors” is one of his),
so it comes as a surprise to find this album is just him, an acoustic guitar and harmonica and
that the music is hewn from the cloth of ragtime country blues. All the songs are composed
by him but cleave to the tried and trusted ingredients such as floods on the levee, knives in
the kitchen, cold cold ground and characters called John Henry that have inhabited the deltas
and fields of Bluesville since the turn of the last century. Troost's voice is warm and husky
and reminiscent of a younger John Martyn, on one song “She Might Have Been A Muse”
he sounds at times remarkably like Loudon Wainwright and to his credit the song could
have been penned by Loudon. The stand out song is “Travelin¹ Shoes,” a hymn to
California that would not be out of place in the Woody Guthrie songbook.
—Americana UK

All The Boats Are Gonna Rise is truly a solo effort, just Troost alone on guitars, vocals,
and harmonica. The lead-in title track is ironic and prescient after the carnage in Louisiana
recently...a New Orleans anthem, wouldn't you think? There's a lot of Delta country blues
influence on this recording, and a lot of social commentary, as well. Imagine a bayou-bred
John Steinbeck taking up a fret board instead of a pen and you've pretty much got the picture.
—Don Grant, Freight Train Boogie

RADIO NEWS
•Be sure to listen to the following radio shows on KCSN 88.5 FM here in
Los Angeles that continue to play cuts from “All the Boats Are Gonna Rise:”
“Tangled Roots” on Sundays, 4:00-7:00PM, hosted by Pat Baker
and “Tied to the Tracks” on Saturdays, 6-10AM, hosted by Larry Wines.
These are two great acoustic and roots music shows and
can also be heard on the web at KCSN.org.

•On the East coast, my CD is getting airplay on WMPG in Portland, Maine,
on the "US Folk" show hosted by Chris Darling. Thanks, Chris!

•Radio Golden Flash in Belgium has added my CD to their play list.