Live from Harrah’s Resort Casino for the David Gray Past & Present World Concert Tour. David has a big following of fans, that were standing up and singing the words to his hit songs, and having a great time! This show has a few clips from the concert. SO Enjoy the concert!
David Gray is back doing what he does better than almost anyone, and fans of complex, serious, lyrical songcraft should rejoice. Dear Life may be the deepest, strangest, loveliest album this pioneering British singer-songwriter has ever delivered. Years in the making, it is an album of emotional crisis and resolution, mortality and faith, reality and illusion, love and heartbreak, magic, science, loss and acceptance.
Dear Life is David Gray’s 13th album, featuring 13 new songs, with an additional 2 tracks included on the CD and LP formats. By his own admission, it is his “most lyrical record”, made in close collaboration with producer Ben de Vries. Dear Life contemplates “the beautiful thing that we all treasure,” with a suggestion of a formal address – as if the writer is composing a letter to life itself. Some songs tenderly grapple with relationship choices and consequences, some face mortality and loss, some boldly tackle the biggest questions of existence: the unknowable nature of love, our place in the universe, the prospect of apocalyptic change. There is a playfulness at work too, and a strong female presence throughout, with vocals from David’s musician daughter Florence Gray on several songs, and a punchy duet with rising star Talia Rae on first single, “Plus & Minus.”
Gray is a multi-million selling arena artist who made one of the bestselling British albums of the 21st century, the blockbuster White Ladder, which pushed his intense and passionate blend of acoustics and electronica into the pop spotlight. Whilst huge stars from Adele to Hozier to Ed Sheeran have acknowledged Gray’s profound impact and influence, Gray himself has continued to plough his own furrow, relentlessly seeking out a purity of expression. Dear Life is a big statement, the work of a driven man obsessively focussed on a personal artistic journey. “I’m feeling very joyful about the act of making and sharing this music – and privileged to be doing so. I don’t know what people will make of it. But I have the same hopes and dreams whenever I release a record – that if you try and do something special, then maybe something magical will happen in return.”
I was also was Celebrating my birthday at the award winning Black & Blue Restaurant at The Valley View Casino Hotel, which is just down the street from Harrah’s Resort Casino- where the concert was. Also on my birthday we had the Lobster All You Can Eat Buffet feast with 175 items of gourmet food with a special “Happy Birthday” cake for dessert, where 5 of the waiters sang “Happy Birthday” and the cake was served by my favorite waitress Angie: 
What better way to celebrate any special occasion than at these 2 Casinos! 
Then at Valley View Casino at the Black & Blue Restaurant they gave us the best table in the house: a very big sized table that could fit 8 people!, and a birthday card signed by the executives and staff: 
with a gourmet 7 course meal: Filet mignon steak: and a gigantic sized German Chocolate Cake that Nobody has every finished:
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