Folk/Singer Songwriter

Singer-Songwriter

For When You're Sad

Unique Songs

Crunchy

Here is Cardboard Boat, David Berkeley's haunting and powerful sixth album. The album is a companion piece to his new novella of ten interweaving stories, titled The Free Brontosaurus (Rare Bird).  Each song on the album pairs with a story in the collection and is sung loosely from the perspective of each story's main character. Each song sung from a female character's perspective features the great Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek) on background vocals. Both the book and album will be released September 25th. For more on David's music and books, visit www.davidberkeley.com  

Cardboard Boat - David Berkeley

The new album 'Post Tropical' available now.

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Lyrics:
speak until the dust
settles in the same specific place
light refused to go
drink it from a cast and iron plate
instead of cold milk
was offered unripe
instead of silence
considered craven

nothing made it seem
hidden where the aging soil was pure
pressed against the crease
mountains become fragrant at the source
how can you stand this
exotic angle
i read it somewhere 
that they would lie still

i remember how cloth hung
flexing with the forest clung
half waist and high raised arms
kicking at the slightest form
i remember my first love
i remember my first love

unrelied i was called
missing teeth out of favour
nickel beach it was all
gathering by the sundial

i woke hard
i woke heavy 
for the half way stop
five whole hours in
when i woke hard 
i woke heavy with the live or parts 

i remember how cloth hung
flexing with the forest clung
half waist and high raised arms
kicking at the slightest form
i remember my first love
i remember my first love

i remember my first love

Post Tropical

Cavalier

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Into The Thicket

Gold Spectacles debut release "Steal You Away". To be released 25th January 2014. 

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GOLD SPECTACLES - Steal You Away

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Under Stars

a blend of sounds including frogs in cali (columbia), rain on my brooklyn roof and lots more.... 

For Julio

Written by: Madeline Fuhrman & Blake Healy
Produced by: Problem Child (Mathieu Carratier & Madeline Fuhrman)

THE MAD ONES (The Lost Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hdszdz-9RQ

The Mad Ones

The fourth track in David Berkeley's new album "Cardboard Boat," released in conjunction with his new novella of accompanying stories, "The Free Brontosaurus" via Rare Bird. This song (and four others on the album) features Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek) on background vocals.

Last Round

The second track on David Berkeley's forthcoming album (releasing Sept 25 via Straw Man), "Cardboard Boat," featuring Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek on background vocals. This track pairs with the final story in Berkeley's accompanying collection of interwoven tales, "The Free Brontosaurus," releasing on the same day as the album via Rare Bird Lit. 
Visit www.davidberkeley.com for more on David's music and forthcoming book.

Cardboard Boat

To The Sea

Wishing Well

Broken Crown

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"The song is about having the animal instinct inside you come to life. Running with them, joining them - the instinct taking over, giving you freedom and making you forget about your human self and all things we humans keep around us in the modern society.

I think humans need to let go a bit more, shake their bodies more often, like the animals do.. It's a beautiful thing really.

Sometimes when you look at the world, and you see what we've done to it, the way many of us hurt the world we live in, innocent animals, even our own kind! And that kind of makes you want to follow the wolves instead. At least for one night."

Aurora Aksnes is a 18 year old girl from Bergen, Norway. She strives to write music that can inspire people, through idiosyncratic tales of struggle, love, and all that lies in between.

AURORA - Running With The Wolves

From the "Down The Way" album by Angus & Julia Stone

Angus & Julia Stone - Yellow Brick Road

Cam - Burning House (Acapella Cover)

From the album Austin Plaine: http://geni.us/austinplaine

Never Come Back Again

Brand New

Song #3 (of 25) in the series, Atlas: Year Two by Sleeping At Last.

SON

show me who i am and who i could be.
initiate the heart within me
'til it opens properly.

slow down, start again from the beginning.
i can’t keep my head from spinning out of control.
is this what being vulnerable feels like?

i swear i'll try, try, try to breathe
’til it turns to muscle memory.
i'm only steady on my knees;
one day i'll stand up on my own two feet.

i’ll run the risk 
of being intimate with brokenness.
through this magnifying glass,
i see a thousand finger prints
on the surfaces of who i am.

show me where to find the silver lining
as the mercury keeps rising,
’til the glass or my fever breaks.

show me how to struggle gracefully.
let the scaffolding inside of me be strong enough
to hold this tired body up once more.

and i will try, try, try to breathe
’til it turns to muscle memory.
i feel the pressure in my blood
building up and liberating me.

so i will try, try, try to breathe
’til it turns to muscle memory.
i'm only steady on my knees.
but one day, i'll stand on my own two feet.

i'll run the risk 
of being intimate with brokenness.
through this magnifying glass,
i see a thousand finger prints

that ran the risk
of being intimate with my brokenness.
i was given a gift of hope 
in a thousand finger prints
on the surface of who i am.

Collect Call

Carousel - Let's Go Home

Young the Giant -  Strings  In The Open Session

Pink Strat

Already Yours (Album Version)

Culture's Bad M'ckaay (Terence McKenna)

Gregory Alan Isakov - Big Black Car

God Loves You When You’re Dancing EP on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/glywyd

God Loves You When You're Dancing

Play With Fire

“Berkeley crafts his songs like watercolor paintings. Intimate and introspective, his gentle yet colorful melodies are graceful and resonate long after the last note fades.”  – Creative Loafing, Atlanta

Songwriter and author David Berkeley writes songs capable of both breaking and mending the heart. The San Francisco Chronicle calls him a “musical poet,” and the New York Times praises his “lustrous, melancholy voice with shades of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake.” He was a guest on This American Life, and he’s won many songwriting awards and honors including ASCAPs Johnny Mercer Songwriting Award. Berkeley has released six studio albums, one live album, and authored two books. His 2017 release was a never-before tried concept: a novella comprising ten intertwining stories and an album of ten accompanying songs (one for each story). He returned in time for the 2018 midterms with a set of political love songs called The Faded Red and Blue. Berkeley then released an incredibly intimate and poignant release, Oh Quiet World, written during the lockdown after his family escaped Spain due to Corona. 

Berkeley and his family decided to leave Madrid, where they had been living for the year, as Corona numbers began to skyrocket. They packed in haste, leaving much of what they had acquired over the year behind, and managed to get on one of the final commercial flights out. David had planned to leave it behind, but on their way out the door, he grabbed the half-century-old secondhand Spanish guitar he had bought in the city. It was lucky he did, for it was on that guitar that he wrote all the songs for his latest release, Oh Quiet World. David and his family self-quarantined in a friend’s empty house near the Rhode Island coast. He set up a makeshift studio in the attic and began writing and recording songs. “I wrote a song a day that first week back,” Berkeley explains. “Songwriting gave me a way to process my fears and frustrations. It gave me a purpose, something small I could contribute.” The songs are his most stripped back, supported by his wife and children’s singing and the most barebone arrangements with touches of horns, accordion, and banjo. Despite the hard topic, Oh Quiet World manages to find hope through the hard times. The whole album plays like a prayer, beginning with the call to “wake up in the early light,” and ending with the word, “amen.”

He is back with A Pail Full of Fire, recorded with Todd Sickafoose in Eugene, Oregon. The album showcases David at his songwriting and vocal best. This is a timeless collection about the passage of time and the arc of a long love.
 
David Berkeley’s gift as a songwriter and storyteller is that he sees both the tragedy and comedy in life, managing to both reveal the sorrow and the blazing beauty at the heart of the human condition. It’s a duality that audiences experience at all of Berkeley’s shows as well, as he tells uproarious stories between cathartic songs. 

Berkeley lives with his wife and two boys in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. In addition to his solo career, he is also one half of the wildly creative Trans-Atlantic costumed duo Son of Town Hall who just released their debut LP to wide praise. Berkeley’s music has also been remixed by many of the world’s top EDM DJs. He tours extensively all over the country and world and has opened/toured with Dido, Don McLean, Ben Folds, Billy Bragg, Ray Lamontagne, Nickel Creek and many more. He was a Kerrville New Folk winner, a New Song and Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Finalist. He’s performed on Mountain Stage, The World Café, the Sundance Film Festival, South by Southwest, XM Loft Sessions, Acoustic Café, to name a few. 

“If you're into literate soulful singer songwriters, David Berkeley is the Gabriel García Márquez of beautiful-voiced troubadours.” – KRUU