“Ghost Kitty” EP by Boone’s band Alberta
& The Dead Eyes out now; All-new album “Give Or Take” out March 15. Hear percussive
piano driven “Bundled Up Blues”.
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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”
“Alberta &
The Dead Eyes’s ‘Bundled Up Blues’
sounds like the story of terrible things that occurred so long ago that
laughing about it is not only permitted but encouraged. It’s a joyful, playful
sound built on the blues. — Alt77
Check out the premiere of “Bundled Up Blues” by Alberta
& The Dead Eyes at Spill
Magazine here
or listen at the links 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
Out Now
(Dead Eyes Collective)
Streaming Link:
Track Listing:
02. Roofbeam Riser
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 is preceded by “Ghost Kitty,” a four-song EP of additional songs, out now.
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, out now.
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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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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