“It fucked me up more than I expected,” Dave Boone says of quitting his 15-year, two-packs-a-day cigarette habit. “I wrote these songs curled up in a ball.”

Boone’s songs as Alberta & The Dead Eyes speak for themselves: Unlike us mortals, Boone is nowhere to be found on social media. Hear “Boyfriends” now.

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

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“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.”

“I’m a carpenter by day and sometimes even by night,” Dave Boone of Alberta & The Dead Eyes 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.

Scroll down for more.

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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | “Boyfriends”

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About | “Boyfriends”
“‘Boyfriends’ is funny because it was the first little song idea I had when I first got to New Orleans. The band constantly heard me fucking with that riff and melody and first verse during silences. I had these big plans for it. Strings and horns and weird piano parts. It was all there in my head, but then the orchestra wasn’t... shame.” — 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 | In The Press
“Just as interested in the past as the future.” — Various Small Flames
“Music like this should be heard and, more importantly, celebrated.” — Indie Band Guru
“Covering ample stylistic ground... It’s a winner from the first.” — Neufutur
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes“Ghost Kitty” EPDec. 22, 2023(Dead Eyes Collective)

Track Listing:

01. Bundled Up Blues

02. Roofbeam Riser

03. Boyfriends (STREAM)

04. Excavation Blues

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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 | 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

ASSETS : WEBSITE : BANDCAMP : SPOTIFY : APPLE

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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact

TWITTER : INSTAGRAM : YOUTUBE : TIKTOK : SOUNDCLOUD : SPOTIFY : BLOG : E-MAIL

Dan Bern has been a Jeopardy clue, written songs for Judd Apatow films, taught tennis to Wilt Chamberlain. He has never appeared on vinyl until now.

One of Roger Daltrey’s “favourite songwriters” to see his 2001 masterpiece New American Language reissued on Jan. 12; Six-week tour launches Jan. 17 in Atlanta.

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Dan Bern as photographed by Judd Irish Bradley

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“He’s been one of my favourite songwriters and musicians for the past 28 years.” — Roger Daltrey of The Who on Dan Bern

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[STREAM]: https://vyd.co/Albuquerquelullabyremastered
“There is a well of human resourcefulness that we can draw on within ourselves, despite hardships we face. Inspirational.” — Americana Highways
Hear the newly remastered version of Dan Bern’s “Albuquerque Lullaby” via Americana Highways here or at the links above.
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Dan Bern | About

In addition to being a Jeopardy clue, Bern has written thousands of songs, among such other notable career and personal highlights as writing songs for the Judd Apatow film “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” and Jonathan Demme’s film about Jimmy Carter (which Carter recognized Bern for when introducing Bern to his wife Roslyn, saying, “This is the fellow that wrote that song.”) Bern has opened for The Who (Daltrey has covered Bern’s songs), is a member of the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and taught tennis to Wilt Chamberlain.

The remastered, first-time-on-vinyl edition of New American Language will be followed by the launch of a six-week Dan Bern tour in Atlanta. See dates below. Starting Over, an all-new album of Bern songs is scheduled for release on March 1, 2024, via Grand Phony. More info forthcoming.

Dan Bern is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Dan BernNew American Language (Remastered)Jan. 12, 2024(Grand Phony Records)

Pre-Order Bundle Link:

PRE-ORDER HERE

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Track Listing:

01. Sweetness

02. New American Language

03. Alaska Highway

04. God Said No

05. Turning Over

06. Black Tornado

07. Albuquerque Lullaby (STREAM)

08. Tape

09. Honeydoo!

10. Toledo

11. Rice

12. Thanksgiving Day Parade (STREAM)

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More About New American Language by Dan Bern

Jan. 12, 2024, will see the reissue, in a newly remastered edition, of New American Language, the 2001 album by acclaimed American songwriter, Dan Bern. Surprisingly, the occasion marks the first appearance of a Bern album on vinyl, during a career spanning more than 30 releases.

“Dan’s epic ‘Thanksgiving Day Parade,’ literally took two years to record,” says the song’s producer, Wil Masisak in the liner notes of the upcoming reissue. “The sense that we’d made something worth hearing coupled with the knowledge that we couldn’t have done this alone or without difficulty was immensely rewarding.

“Unfortunately, the release date was set for Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, and so it is that this incredible collection of American songwriting seemingly meant for those who did their best to carry on after 9/11 finds itself a little lost to time.”

“With Dan Bern’s large and acclaimed catalog, I have no idea how he has never had a vinyl release,” says John Young of Grand Phony Records (Mike Viola, Trapper Schoepp), the label that will reissue Bern’s landmark album. New American Language is my favorite Dan Bern album, Young says. With “fresh and vibrant” remastered audio, it is literally clearer that Bern’s lyrics “have proven to be prescient, as if they were written yesterday,” according to Young.

“National treasure” is an overused phrase to denote somebody whom Americans acknowledge as important. Someone whose contributions to the American fabric are numerous, never in doubt, but rarely at risk.

Bern and his work is something more ingrained than what “national treasure” can measure. What Bern has offered throughout a 30-album and counting career speaks to something deeper in us than any two-word workaround for actual criticism could define. Bern’s work takes those risks, and New American Language is his career’s most precarious statement. In a world filled with plenty of “safer” controversial subjects to write about, Bern could do that if he felt like it. We are better for his decision not to.

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Dan Bern | On Tour

01/17/2024: Atlanta, GA @ Eddie’s Attic

01/18/2024: Carrboro NC @ Cat’s Cradle Back Room

01/19/2024: Vienna VA @ Jammin’ Java

01/20/2024: New York NY @ Mercury Lounge

01/21/2024: Philadelphia PA @ 118 North

01/22/2024: Providence RI @ Askew

01/23/2024: Woodbury CT @ Woodbury Brewing Company

01/25/2024: Cambridge MA @ Club Passim

01/27/2024: Montreal QC @ The Wheel Club

01/28/2024: Ottawa ON @ Live on Elgin

01/31/2024: Toronto ON @ Monarch Tavern

02/01/2024: Rochester NY @ Abilene

02/02/2024: Syracuse NY @ 443 Social Club

02/03/2024: Saratoga Springs NY @ Caffe Lena

02/04/2024: Northampton MA @ Parlor Room

02/06/2024: Buffalo NY @ 9th Ward

02/07/2024: Pittsburgh PA @ Club Cafe

02/08/2024: Ann Arbor MI @ The Ark

02/09/2024: Columbus OH @ Natalie’s

02/10/2024: Newport KY @ Southgate House Revival (Sanctuary)

02/12/2024: St. Louis MO @ City Winery

02/15/2024: Louisville KY @ Red Room at Flanagan’s

02/17/2024: Memphis TN @ Hernando’s Hide-A-Way

02/18/2024: Fayetteville AR @ Folk School of Fayetteville

02/19/2024: Oklahoma City OK @ Blue Door

02/21/2024: Austin, TX @ Mohawk *JUST ADDED!

02/22/2024: Houston, TX @ Mucky Duck

02/24/2024: San Antonio, TX @ Hermann Sons Ratskeller Bar *JUST ADDED!

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Dan Bern | Links

ASSETS : WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : INSTAGRAM : GRAND PHONY : SPOTIFY : APPLE

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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact

WEBSITE : FACEBOOK : TWITTER : INSTAGRAM : YOUTUBE : TIKTOK : SOUNDCLOUD : SPOTIFY : BLOG : E-MAIL

Dave Boone makes some solid choices: He is nowhere to be found on social media while also managing to end his 15-year habit of two packs of cigarettes daily.

“Mama, did it fuck me up more than I expected,” he says. “I wrote the EP and album curled up in a ball.” Hear “Boyfriends” by Alberta & The Dead Eyes 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 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.

Scroll down for more…

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PLAY, POST & SHARE

Alberta & The Dead Eyes | “Boyfriends”

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About | “Boyfriends”
“‘Boyfriends’ is funny because it was the first little song idea I had when I first got to New Orleans. The band constantly heard me fucking with that riff and melody and first verse during silences. I had these big plans for it. Strings and horns and weird piano parts. It was all there in my head, but then the orchestra wasn’t... shame.” — Dave Boone of Alberta & The Dead Eyes
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes | In The Press
“Wrapped in nostalgia but not fully taken with its allure... just as interested in the past as the future.” — Various Small Flames
“Covering ample stylistic ground... It’s a winner from the first.” — Neufutur
“Music like this should be heard and, more importantly, celebrated.” — Indie Band Guru
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Alberta & The Dead Eyes“Ghost Kitty” EPDec. 22, 2023(Dead Eyes Collective)

Track Listing:

01. Bundled Up Blues

02. Roofbeam Riser

03. Boyfriends (STREAM)

04. Excavation Blues

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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 | 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

ASSETS : WEBSITE : BANDCAMP : SPOTIFY : APPLE

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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact

TWITTER : INSTAGRAM : YOUTUBE : TIKTOK : SOUNDCLOUD : SPOTIFY : BLOG : E-MAIL