The Gathering Field is an American rock quartet from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which recorded five albums from 1994 until 2001. They went on hiatus in 2002 and reunited in 2013.
History
Formation The Gathering Field legacy began in a burned-out third floor in Grove City, Pennsylvania, when Bill Deasy, Dave Brown and Rusted Root percussionist Jim DiSpirito "isolated themselves for the weekend with guitars, tequila, microphones and recording gear". An obscure, rare recording was born out of that weekend, appropriately titled "The Lost Weekend", which was never made commercially available.
Career The Gathering Field line-up ultimately became Deasy on vocals and acoustic guitar, Brown on lead guitar, Eric Riebling on bass and Ray DeFade as drummer. Their first independent release, the self-titled The Gathering Field, was met with great reception around the region and they started playing to packed clubs. However, the band's popularity really skyrocketed when one of the region's most powerful rock radio stations, WDVE, began playing a song called, "Lost in America". The song remained in rotation for over seven months. Based on the success of the self-titled CD, the group...
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