I’m also looking forward to putting out another CD….though I’m not sure if I can get it done in time. That means that my pictures will be projected onto the side of the castle one night. In 2018 I have the job of “lighting“ the castle here in Nürnberg during the annual “Blue Night“. I also find myself thinking about things that I’m NOT going to do. As I get older, I tend to set goals that I can actually achieve. Did you approach the start of this year any differently then you did last year? What have been some of the highlights for you this year? What are you excited for in 2018 which will be here before we know it?! Maybe. What music gets you instantly out of a bad mood? What is a song you are loving these days? “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” The original by Procol Harum. “Love Yourself”, or whatever it’s called. Maybe it sounds dumb, but I like the new thing by Justin Bieber…. At home, we’ve been listening to Charles Mingus. For more information, visit Learn more about about Dan Reeder in the following All Access interview: Thanks for your time today! Where does this interview find you? Is there music playing in the background? If so, what is it? I’m at my studio. In 2012, he published an overview of his work titled Art Pussies Fear This Book. Since moving from California to Nuremberg, Germany, over 30 years ago, he has won various visual art awards, participated in numerous exhibitions, led art seminars, and took on a visiting professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (aka, Germany’s Academy of Fine Arts). In addition to his musical background, Reeder designs all of his album art (including the cover of “Nobody Wants to Be You.”) and is a critically-acclaimed visual artist. You’re hearing every piece of a self-made artist and his multi-faceted skill set - from the soulful, smoky vocal overlay to a singular, meticulous guitar sound, but best of all, you’re hearing the ingenuity that is Dan Reeder. When you listen to Nobody wants to be you, you’re hearing more than an album. The bluntness of the lyrics are softened by Reeder’s crooning yet, even with multi-layered harmonies, his voice maintains its iconic “wisp.” While the album varies from the folk groundwork laid in the past, Reeder’s musical intelligence is as present as ever. On the other hand, the opening and title track, “Nobody wants to be you” is much more soothing.
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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.
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. The New Yorker’s Ben Greenman coined him as “one of the foremost outsider artists in modern folk” and he was featured on the Emmy award-winning show Weeds (“Work Song”). The albums garnered glowing reviews publications like No Depression deemed him “brilliant,” and NPR’s Fresh Air compared Reeder to Prine himself. Prine listened, signed Reeder to his label, toured with him four times, and released all three of Reeder’s previous records: “Dan Reeder” (2004), “Sweetheart” (2005) and “This New Century” (2009). “Nobody Wants to Be You.” 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. Last week on November 10th, Oh Boy Records released Dan Reeder’s newest project, “ Nobody Wants to Be You.” The five-song EP is distributed by Thirty Tigers and was produced by Reeder himself.