Dan Reeder

The Show On The Road with Z. Lupetin

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.” For the uninitiated, diving into Dan Reeder’s uniquely absurdist, harmony-drenched body of work can feel like reading a rich short-story collection in one sitting. His normal routine is to layer lush close-mic’d vocals on top of one another using himself as a conspiratorial choir, sketching 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”. Much more than a one man band, Dan 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. This episode was recorded in his garage studio in Nuremberg, Germany, where he's lived with his wife for 30 years. Reeder’s new album may seem intimidating at first. 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. Controversial but gentle acoustic offerings like “Porn Song” for instance come in at just under minute long and new favorites like the wide-eyed (but foul-mouthed) piano ballad “Born a Worm” asks the deepest of questions of an indifferent but 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?” Host Z. Lupetin spoke to Dan right after John Prine passed away from complications of Covid-19, and they spoke about his tours together with Prine and how much his music inspired him through the years. Stream Reeder’s newest “Every Which Way” now.
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