Dan Reeder - Sweetheart [2006][EAC,log,cue. FLAC]

Artist: Dan Reeder
Release: Sweetheart
Discogs: 2470150
Released: 2006
Label: Oh Boy Records
Catalog#: OBR-036
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD
Country: US
Style: Blues, Folk, World, & Country, Acoustic

Tracklisting:

01. Waiting For My Cappuccino
02. Just A Tune
03. You'll Never Surf Again
04. I Drink Beer
05. Bach Is Dead And Gone
06. You Should Have Wrote A Book
07. Shoot Me To The Moon
08. 99 Friends Of Mine
09. Beautiful
10. Cowboy Song
11. Pussy Titty
12. Pussy Heaven
13. I Don't Really Want To Talk To You
14. All My Money
15. Just Leave Me Alone Today
16. A Whiter Shade Of Pale


Dan Reeder's new second album Sweetheart consists of 15 original songs, plus a cover of Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," that sounds like the demo version Gary Brooker probably dreamed of singing 39 years ago before all that baroque production-work got in the way. It isn't so much a sequel to his wonderful out-of-nowhere, out-of-time 2003 debut, as it is an extension of-a more freewheeling elaboration on his first musical offering. Certain themes recur on Sweetheart: Dan
likes to be alone ("I Don't Really Want To Talk To You"; "Just Leave Me Alone Today"); Dan likes to think about, and have, sex ("Pussy Titty"—for the son of a minister, he's got quite a mouth on him). But most of the time, Sweetheart is about the sound of Dan Reeder's cracked, dry, confiding voice and the pleasant noises he gets out his homemade guitars, his multi-tracked harmonies with himself and his occasional puff on a harmonica.

Reeder is someone who is squarely in the American tradition of independence and self-imposed isolation, yet who wants to share these qualities with others, because he wants to connect with his fellow isolates, to let us know we're not alone. So, to get more portentous than this man ever will: Behold, Dan Reeder. Now watch him draw himself a beer and listen to him make himself some music.