David Norris set to produce Michael Elmore

Posted by editor on May 16, 2011

David Norris at Norrisong Productions is now gearing towards producing an album that has been beyond a long time coming . In the fall of 1996, he uprooted his family from California to move to Music City, but it wasn’t quite in the stars. Nashville was the goal back then, but a medical related incident involving his father detoured his path.

“Yeah, my mind was set on Nashville and heading east, but when I found out about my father’s stroke, I pretty much just took a left at Utah.” says David

Ending up in Gillette, Wyoming to be with family, he immediately tried to find work in the music community to soothe his soul, which was a very small market in a very a small town. Taking on any job he could, and literally working four jobs to make ends meet with his first child in the mix was a very challenging time.  It may have seemed a little stifling to his dream back then, but that’s when he met Michael Elmore. Landing a guitar instructor job at a local music store, Michael signed up for lessons and from that moment on, magic started unfolding.

For the next few years, David taught Michael (who already had some years of formal piano training under his belt) the art of guitar, music theory, and the craft of songwriting. Excelling faster than any other student and literally becoming his own, David and Michael’s father discussed the idea of entering him the Midwest Guitar Wars competition. Taking 1st place was an excitement being that he was one of the youngest contestants and that there were so many. This prompted him into relocating to Los Angeles to study under the legendary Frank Gimbale in Pasadena at the Los Angeles Music Acadamy LAMA.

During this time, Michael kept entering guitar wars in Hollywood and eventually landing 2nd place in Southern California. Forging original bands in the Hollywood scene, and becoming intermingled and embraced with mainstream acts, Michael felt the need to get a sense of what America was really about, and became curious as to why we were even at war. This intense feeling made him stop shop and enlist in the military. Serving many years as a marine, and nearly being killed several times in duty defending our country, Michael has finally come home with honor. Please raise your glass to salute his album “Bullets and Bombshells” as the diary of his life and the melodic memoirs of his time spent at war.

~the Editor