marks Reeder’s fourth release on Oh Boy Records, a relationship formed after Reeder sent a burned CD to John Prine in the early 2000’s. The five-song EP is distributed by Thirty Tigers and was produced by Reeder himself. This episode was recorded in his garage studio in Nuremberg, Germany, where he’s lived with his wife for 30 years. Last week on November 10th, Oh Boy Records released Dan Reeder’s newest project, Nobody Wants to Be You. I come home from work and you say its nice to se you. and lately you dont listen to a single thing I say. Gunter 5.These are a few of my favorite things 6.The day is over 7.Work song (. the sun shines through the window like it hasnt shown in days. Much more than a one man band, Reeder often builds every instrument he plays in his recordings, from steel string guitars, to banjos, drums, basses, cellos, violins, clarinets, and even the computer he records on. Dan Reeder 1.Three Chords 2.Clean Elvis 3.The worlds slowest blues 4.Dr.
New favorites like the wide-eyed (and foul-mouthed) piano ballad “Born a Worm” ask the deepest of questions of an indifferent, endlessly beautiful universe in only the way Reeder could - by plainly inquiring about a caterpillar’s mysterious transformation into a butterfly: “what the fuck is that about?” Controversial-while-gentle acoustic offerings like “Porn Song” come in at just under minute long. It features a whopping 20 songs (or cinematic vignettes of a sort), but a closer look shows it clocking in at a succinct 39 minutes. The new album may seem intimidating at first. He sketches tiny but poignant moments from his life and imagination, often repeating a simple phrase again and again like one of his most-listened to tunes, “Work Song,” which tells us bluntly through gospel claps: “I’ve got all the fucking work I need.” His normal routine is to layer lush close-mic’d vocals on top of one another using himself as a conspiratorial choir.
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Reeder is rarely interviewed, but has collected a legion of devoted fans after putting out a series of beloved albums on John Prine’s Oh Boy Records – including the much-anticipated new LP, Every Which Way.įor the uninitiated, diving into Reeder’s uniquely absurdist, harmony-drenched body of work can feel like reading a rich short story collection in one sitting. Where else can you find a song called "Food and Pussy" that sounds as sincere as if the words were really about a childhood pet? That, along with titles like "The Coolest Blues Ever" and "The World's Slowest Blues" are only three of the 18 reasons to buy this 18-track record.This week on The Show On The Road, a conversation with renegade roots songwriter, painter and NSFW self-taught poet Dan Reeder.
Signed to John Prine's Oh Boy Records, everything about this debut seems self-fashioned: from the kinder-craft cover design and the photos of some very dubious looking instruments, to the sounds of one man recording songs you might make up yourself in the tenth hour of an overtime shift, or maybe while pondering life on the crapper.
Check out "The Tulips on the Table" for instance, where the singer slowly realises his wife has fallen out of love with him, or "No One Will Laugh, which argues for the right to screw up playing even the simplest song, something Reeder probably does, but never on this album. Reeder is noted for his original compositions (with titles such as Food and Pussy, Bach is Dead and Gone, and Work Song, which was featured on the. That and the fact that he plays mostly homemade instruments and makes no bones about writing super-indie trash blues/gospel/country fusion with off-centre observations on the ordinary life of a middle-aged loser. It is this devilishly direct songwriting that makes Reeder stand apart in the folk world. Eight words is all Reeder needed to express the thoughts of, oh about 800 million workers worldwide. The absolutely brilliant "Work Song, sung in churchy three-part harmony, offers the exquisite mantra: "I got all the fuckin' work I need" over and over again. You can keep your union songs about slaving for a better minimum wage because Dan Reeder has a song that offers the real voice of the American proletariat.
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