Decker and Gamble
Decker Velie and Bill Gamble started writing music together in the 1980s when they made an album marrying “classic” folk music with rhythm-driven inspirations like the Police and the Cars.
The album was produced by multi-instrumentalist Bill Barber, multi-instrumentalist and writer, of Grammy Nominee Flim and the BBs fame. It was recorded in Minneapolis at Sound 80, one of the most innovative studios in the country at that time having worked with Bob Dylan, Leo Kottke and Cat Stevens, as well as artists in virtually every other genre.
Decker went on to a successful career in music production, while Bill started a business and lived in several countries in Europe. Both of them, however, remained ever committed to music: Gamble as a classical and jazz musician, Decker as a prolific songwriter.
And while they have collaborated on a variety of songs through the years, their band took an extended break: until now. Both in Minneapolis, they recently returned to the studio and recorded these songs, their signature mix of pretty melodies, folky love stories, and offbeat cultural semiotics on full display.
Decker and Gamble share in their songs a passionate belief that a good story with a melody is sometimes just what we need.