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Boygenius covered Dan Reeder’s “Stay Down, Man” in a recent SiriusXMU session, and you can watch it happen below. The Louisiana-born, California-raised folk artist and instrument-maker originally released the track in 2020, and it appeared on his album Every Which Way later that year. Boygenius also played “Cool About It” and “Not Strong Enough” from The Record, and you can hear that below, too. - Pitchfork
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Do you have any artistic role models?
Dan Reeder: Lots of them…Uh, I am a fan of David Schrigley. He does sort of what I do, only better. I also like Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Jeff Coons, John Prine, Lyle Lovett, Pink, Marvin Gaye, Dolly Parton, Jeff Beck and Aretha Franklin…and the list keeps getting longer.
Do you get angry about criticism?
Dan Reeder: No. I pretend like I didn’t even hear it, and then I think about it.
What are you proud of?
Dan Reeder: Sometimes, I look at what I’ve done and think it was a waste of a life. Other times I look at what I’ve done and think it was exactly what this world needed.
Where would you like to be exhibited once in your lifetime?
Dan Reeder: Any national magazine, for example Time Magazine or The New York Times newspaper. Something big, important…to be taken seriously, I think that would be good.
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Dan Reeder’s deluxe edition of his 2020 release Every Which Way is an expansion of the original’s musings on current events and societal surrealness. Covering ground from scientific advancement to the 2016 election, the male gaze, and the nature of aging itself, the 28-song release clocks in at just under an hour of listening time, maintaining a grounding specificity in each byte-sized track.
The longest-signed Oh Boy Records artist behind John Prine himself, Reeder is well-regarded as an oddball, known for building most of his instruments by hand and having a penchant for profanity and bizarre imagery in his lyrics. Every Which Way (Deluxe) finds him experimenting even further, toying with AutoTune and ad-nauseam repetition on new additions like “She’s Rich, She’s Beautiful” and “Fighting Style” to give voice to the discordance of modern existence with a tongue-in-cheek twist.
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Aquarium Drunkard - Dan Reeder – Every Which Way (Deluxe): Dan Reeder’s music is a revelation. There is a reason he’s one of the longest signed artists to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records. A fascinating figure and true outsider, his recording methods are homespun, his instruments self-built instruments, and his paintings offer a look into other worlds.
Dan Reeder - Every Which Way (Deluxe Edition) - Better late than never. That’s how we’ve been feeling about Dan Reeder. How in the hell have we slept on this guy for so long? One text to a friend about him read, “Where the f&ck have I been?” His music is a revelation. There is a reasons he’s one of the longest signed artists to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records. His songs are genius. Just listen to “Stay Down Man,” “Young at Heart,” “Supernova,” or “Nobody Wants to Be You” from Every Which Way. And his paintings. His homespun recording methods and self-built instruments. His personality. It’s all so fascinating. A true outsider. RIYL: John Prine, Randy Newman, Terry Allen, Michael Hurley, Robert Pollard. Good music. Listen and purchase below.
Singer-songwriter Dijon has released a new song, “The Stranger,” which features a unique cast of guests including John C. Reilly and Tobias Jesso, Jr.
“The Stranger” is a folk posse cut of sorts that finds Dijon and his guests — who also include Sachi DiSerafino, Dan Reeder, and Thea Gustafsson — alternating verses over a tender guitar progression. The result is a song that feels as if it contains a sprawling, occasionally strange, but ultimately cohesive little universe inside of it.
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This week on The Show On The Road Podcast, a conversation with renegade roots songwriter, painter and NSFW self-taught poet Dan Reeder. Reeder has rarely has been 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.”
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Dan Reeder‘s new album, every which way, is out today on all streaming platforms, and available to purchase in LP/CD/digital formats.
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Today, Oh Boy Records’ longest signed artist besides John Prine, announced the release of Dan Reeder’s newest project, every which way on June 5. The 20-song album, written and produced by Reeder himself, is distributed by Thirty Tigers. “I wanted to make a sort of „anything goes“ record. I think if you don't do that, you risk becoming a parody of yourself.” Marking Reeder’s fifth release on Oh Boy Records, every which way is a milestone album for the folk artist.
Reeder’s recent album, every which way, ranges from the feeling of solitude while aging in “Young at heart”, to the humorous “Born a worm” questioning the process of nature. Reeder croons in his track “Love & Hate”, “Man, you should have seen her face / when she thought I had misplaced / those insurance papers.” Reeder understands the fragility of life and meets it with comedy and stoicism. According to Reeder, “If you take out the bullshit, most songs will be short.”, and that is what Reeder accomplished with every which way.
Reeder’s discography continues to retain a cohesiveness with witty and blunt lyrics, paired with his wispy voice, creating a sound of his own. Coined by the New Yorker’s Ben Greenman as “one of the foremost outsider artists in modern folk”, Reeder is a self-made artist in all forms. From building instruments, creating album artwork, writing, and producing, Reeder can do it himself.
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“The piano and guitar composition “Love & Hate” (2020) laments life’s interlocking pairing of pleasure and pain. The song bounces from the initial cliché of the title to an allusion to Amazing Grace and ends on “bitch and complain.” Finishing on a minor chord, the tragic is reduced to the mundane. We are told “man, you should have seen her face / when she thought I had misplaced / those insurance papers.” We don’t need any great adventure in life to make us see how fragile it is to sit on the wire. “Young at Heart” (2019) spells out this revelation, the singer announcing that he has come to “hate disruption” and “fear change.” A lack of faith, cynicism about democracy, complications with sex, and a general hardening-of-heart — all come at the price of accepting our fate as something less than romantic or heroic… as something that “just feels sorta natural.”
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Written By: Jeremy Ray Jewell
I'm going to be putting out a bunch of songs here in the next
few months. The idea is to put them out as singles, and
then make a sort of "collection" CD.
I'm looking forward to it....mainly because it will make
it possible for me to put out wacky stuff that normally wouldn't
go together on a record.
A lot of the songs are very short, too, but I figure if you've said
what you have to say, you should quit. Works for painting.
We'll see if it works for music.
The guys at OhBoy have also been putting up paintings of
mine on Instagram, and so far, they've picked good ones.
I check it pretty much every day to see what they've uploaded.
- Dan
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In the early 2000s, Dan Reeder sent John Prine a CD that inspired Prine to sign Reeder to his label, Oh Boy Records. Since then, Reeder has balanced his impressive career as a visual artist with writing and producing music. The refreshingly frank folk singer has since become known for his cheeky, candid and unfiltered lyrics, and is in control of every step of his recordings — from making his own instruments to designing his album art.
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The first time I ever heard the music of Dan Reeder was when someone sent me a link to the video of ‘The Work Song’ (NSFW). Once I heard it, I had to find out who this guy was. I found out that his story is even more interesting than that song. I’ve been trying to set up this conversation with Dan for years, it took the kindness of his record label Oh Boy Records to put us in touch. Dan Reeder has a mind I enjoy being in conversation with, he looks at the world in unique angles (though he would never say that about himself).
Dan Reeder is an American musician and artist working and living in Germany. He has 3 albums and most recently an EP, Nobody Wants to Be You. You can find a book of his artwork entitled, Art Pussies Fear This Book. In our conversation we talk about his life as an artist, how he got connected with John Prine, how his perspective as an artist has shifted over the years and much more.
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"While “Nobody Wants to Be You” is the precursor to a full-length (set for a 2018 release), the EP isn’t lacking in tenacity and holds true to his distinct style: slightly quirky, painstakingly honest, and undeniably witty. Compared to its predecessors, his latest work delivers a brighter, more energized tone, full of what Reeder calls “easy piano.” This can arguably be heard on the first single, “Kung fu is my fighting style”, a rock-n-roll, piano-driven ballad with a uniquely-distorted electric guitar solo, which also happens to be the only guitar on the entire album..."
Dan Reeder talks with Bass Musician Magazine about his most recent project and his process as a musician, artist, electrical McGyver and Renaissance man... want more?