ALBERTA & THE DEAD EYES – “BUNDLED UP BLUES”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE
“I’m a carpenter by day and sometimes even by night,” Dave Boone of Alberta & The Dead Eyes says. “A fine carpenter at that, but a better musician.”
The songs on the band’s upcoming Ghost Kitty EP (Dec. 22) and its accompanying album Give Or Take (March 15) represent a man in withdrawal from a two-packs-a-day cigarette habit that went on for 15 years.
“Mama, did it fuck me up more than I expected,” Boone confesses. “I wrote the entire record pretty much curled up in a ball.”
Grieving his relationship with nicotine while composing, Boone kept company with his influences, numerous and varied.
“I love Billie Holiday. And The Stooges. And The Band. And OutKast. And Duke Ellington. And Cole Porter. And David Sedaris. And John fucking Prine.”
About “Bundled Up Blues,” Boone says, “I remember fooling about with the chords that became this song on the piano at the house I shared with my slide player,” Boone remembers. “She said, ‘sounds to similar to other shit,’ so I turned the song into some sort of disco saloon tune with fun words. This is the one where I decided I’d just play drums on everything for now.”
Alberta & The Dead Eyes
Ghost Kitty
(Dead Eyes Collective)
Release Date: December 22, 2023
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