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Dan Reeder Releases New Album every which way

Dan Reeder‘s new album, every which way, is out today on all streaming platforms, and available to purchase in LP/CD/digital formats.

Available to listen here: https://orcd.co/everywhichway

Head to https://www.ohboy.com/dan-reeder-1 or https://danreeder.bandcamp.com/album/every-which-way to purchase.

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.

Folk Music Review: Dan Reeder — Weighing Consequences and Accepting Defeat… “Just Feels Sorta Natural”

“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