![]() And while you’re there, be sure to browse through his other releases too, there’s mountains of good stuff. Smithereens by Dan Reeder‘Smithereens’ is out now via Oh Boy Records and you can get it via the Dan Reeder Bandcamp page. He was born in Louisiana, grew up in Southern California and moved to Nuremberg, Germany, and in some circles. Listen to 'Maybe' here and its easy to hear the shared sensibility. Both are crusty-voiced singers who pen dark-humored tales about the odd ways of man. A brief snapshot of a tinderbox of a relationship that lands like a sucker punch to the solar plexus, both partners biting their tongues to avoid an eruption. by Michael Berick + Its not a surprise that Americana icon John Prine signed Dan Reeder to his Oh Boy label. ![]() Clocking in at just under a minute, one of his latest singles, ‘Smithereens’, is a wonderful introduction to the Dan Reeder ethos. Reeder’s songs are frank, unpredictable, wryly humorous and often strangely emotive, even at their most absurd. Since then, he has become a cult hero with his unique, renegade folksinger style. Because when, in the early 2000s, Reeder sent a CD to the legendary John Prine, he ending up signing with Prine’s Oh Boy Records. The endeavour lends his music a conspicuously authentic tone, something rubberstamped by someone who should know. ![]() Reeder had built guitars, banjos, drums, basses, cellos, violins, clarinets and even a saxophone (an experience he sums up by saying “I’ll never do that again”), as well as microphones, computers and other recording equipment. Now based in Nürnberg, where he splits his time between music and visual art, he writes and plays all his own music, designs and creates the cover art, even builds the instruments himself. A true American eccentric, Dan Reeder has remained stubbornly self-sufficient across his career.
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