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David Berkeley

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

amor meu coração

Shelter

Passenger - Settled

Stairwell Wall

2011 release, the long-awaited eighth album from the Hip Hop/Rock trio. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was produced by Beastie Boys and mixed by Philippe Zdar. This album marks Mike "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "Ad Rock" Horovitz and Adam "MCA" Yauch's first full length effort since 2007's Grammy-winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up.

Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (Remix EP) [feat. Santigold]

Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (Edit) [feat. Santigold]

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

The radio edit of Colored Birds off David Berkeley's newest release , Cardboard Boat. The track features Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek) on background vocals. This song pairs with a story from Berkeley's new novella, The Free Brontosaurus. Each song on Cardboard Boat was written from the perspective of the main character in each story in Berkeley's book. Both the book (via Rare Bird Lit) and the album (via Straw Man) will release on September 25th. For more on David's songs and stories, visit www.davidberkeley.com

Colored Birds

Many Great Companions

Book Of Love

Will The Guns Come Out

You Rascal You

Loved One

Come Alive

Here I Am

Motivation (Album Version) [feat. Lil Wayne]

Public Record

Frost

Yesterday Was Hard On All Of Us- Fink & RCO

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3UOnGPgpeapE9aFcZeYAxl?si=d697144433eb436c

Written by Daniel Sumstine
Produced and mixed by Cole Andre
Guitar by Jordan Merrigan
Mastered by Michael Walker

Lyrics:
With the seasons winding down
We were going through the wreckage of our youth
There was a small and subtle sound
That I followed in hopes that I'd find truth

But home never really felt much like home
I want to feel it in my bones
I hope it's somewhere out there, somewhere out there
And God, does he ever reveal the plot?
Has he given this place much thought?
I hope he's somewhere out there, somewhere out there now

There were roses painted red 
So we pulled them down and used them for their thorns
Then placed a crown upon your head
And you felt it from the moment you were born

Somewhere Out There

Saddle Creek 50

November

What's That Sound?

White Rabbit

Maraqopa (Deluxe Edition)

Museum of Flight

Damien Jurado - "Museum of Flight"

A Discovery of Witches

Introducing Matthew Clairmont & Diana Bishop

If Only I Knew

Hands

Harder To Stay

My Night With You

New Old Town

The Well (Wait For The Rain)

The haunting track about soldiers coming home from war from David Berkeley's release The Fire In My Head
Straw Man Publishing 2012 (ASCAP) 
Visit www.davidberkeley.com for more of David's music and books.

I'm Coming Home

The closing track on David Berkeley's fifth studio album. It's a song about survival and hope in the face of natural disaster. It's a song about perseverance and the importance of family.

Song For The Road

The Blood and the Wine

Angelina

“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