Dave Boone quit a 15-year, two-pack-a-day cigarette habit to write his new music. “It fucked me up way more than I expected. I wrote these songs curled up in a ball.”

 “Ghost Kitty” EP by Boone’s band Alberta & The Dead Eyes out Friday; All-new album “Give Or Take” out March 15. Hear his percussive piano on “Bundled Up Blues” now.

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Dave Boone of Alberta & The Dead Eyes as photographed by Ashlan Ounanian

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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | Live

02/03/2024: Seattle, WA @ The Rabbit Box Theater (Info)

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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | “Bundled Up Blues”

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About | “Bundled Up Blues”

Check out the premiere of “Bundled Up Blues” by Alberta & The Dead Eyes at Spill Magazine here or listen at the link above!

“I remember fooling about with the chords that became this song on the piano at the house I shared with my slide player,” Boone remembers. “She said, ‘sounds too similar to other shit,’ so I turned the song into some sort of disco saloon tune with fun words. This is the one where I decided I’d just play drums on everything for now.” — Dave Boone of Alberta & The Dead Eyes

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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | “Ghost Kitty” EP (Teaser)

[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nos1vzHO1Ss
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes

“Ghost Kitty” EP

Dec. 22, 2023

(Dead Eyes Collective)

Track Listing:

01. Bundled Up Blues (STREAM)

02. Roofbeam Riser

03. Boyfriends (STREAM)

04. Excavation Blues

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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | About

Alberta & The Dead Eyes is the giant-sounding band that in reality is the majority work of one real-life carpenter, David Boone (or D. Boone as he often signs off, evoking another literal and figurative giant of musical history, D. Boon of The Minutemen.)

In fact, Boone’s songs contain that same ramshackle joy and conversational, inclusive tone that Boon’s do. It’s the sound of a natural talent letting it fly.

“I’m a carpenter by day and sometimes even by night,” Boone says. “A fine carpenter at that, but a better musician.”

You may want to leave the page now to find out more about Boone, but don’t bother. He made the right choice. The choice that none of us made and many wish we had. Boone is nowhere to be found on social media.

He lets the songs do the sharing.

Alberta & The Dead Eyes will release its new 11-song album Give or Take on March 15, 2024. The album will be preceded by “Ghost Kitty,” a four-song EP of additional songs on Dec. 22, 2023.

The songs on Give or Take represent a man in withdrawal from a two-packs-a-day cigarette habit that went on for 15 years.

“Mama, did it fuck me up more than I expected,” Boone confesses. “I wrote the entire record pretty much curled up in a ball.”

Grieving his relationship with nicotine while composing, Boone kept company with his influences, numerous and varied. So numerous and varied that mentioning a handful isn’t going to help you any more than looking for Boone online will.

“I love Billie Holiday. And The Stooges. And The Band. And Outkast. And Duke Ellington. And Cole Porter. And David Sedaris. And Bill Watterson. And the Detroit Pistons. And John fucking Prine.”

Boone doesn’t mention The Minutemen, but likely would, if prompted.

“I mean Jesus, should I keep going?”

Get it?

The thing about Boone as musician that isn’t likely is how much Boone as carpenter makes it into his music. He doesn’t mention the Grateful Dead either, but the steadfast focus that underpins Boone’s freestyle nature is kinda Alberta & The Workingman’s Dead Eyes.

“I’m a complete ‘no one is coming to save you’ type of person,” he explains. “Keep your head down and do your job. Musician schmoosician. Do what your supposed to fucking do. Write good songs. Play good shows. Show up on time. Be humble and be fucking nice.”

A real-life carpenter keeping it real-life real. Refreshing.

It should be even less surprising now that musician Boone rejected Instagram squares for T-squares just like he painfully swore off smokes cold turkey for the clean lungs that arrived with the songs, or as Boone sees it, he arrived to them.

“The songs are just there, hanging out, waiting for someone,” he says.

Now that someone is you.

Alberta & The Dead Eyes will release its new 11-song album Give or Take on March 15, 2024, preceded by “Ghost Kitty,” a four-song EP of additional songs on Dec. 22, 2023.

Dave Boone of Alberta & The Dead Eyes is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | Links

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