Music
The New Album
Play for Love (released 9/15/09)
To download a 60 second sample of selected tunes, click the links below!
Buy the CD
Burnside Distribution Corporation (www.bdcdistribution.com) distributes Play for Love to retail stores everywhere. Please ask your favorite retailer to order you a copy today.
Play for Love can be purchased at dozens of online retailers thanks to IODA (Independent Online Distribution Alliance), www.iodaalliance.com.
Or, for you old schoolers out there, please send a check or money order for $17 (includes postage and handling) to:
Dave Keller
c/o Tastee-Tone Records
P.O. Box 1001
Montpelier, VT 05601
Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
This is my third CD. The first, “Faith” (1998), was very much a blues CD. The second, “Down at the Aloha” (2001), showed my growing interest in soul music, and had a stronger storytelling bent. This one, “Play for Love”, is harder to categorize, and is much more personal.
Since my last CD, I’ve become a father and watched my two daughters begin their journeys into childhood. I’ve tried hard to balance a heavy performance and teaching schedule with a heavy schedule as ‘dad’. The songs on this new CD are the ones that bubbled to the surface, through all the stress and craziness of early parenthood.
Stylistically, the songs show blues and soul influences, but don’t fit obviously into one bag or the other. They come from places of beauty and fear, wonder and anger and pain. Honestly, these are not songs that I sat down and tried to write. I didn’t have time for that. These are songs that I needed to write.
When I began to think about recording these songs, I wanted the recording process to be as honest as the songs themselves. So I picked a small studio -- The Sugar Shed (http:/www.sugarshed.com) in Bath, NH -- and gathered three of my favorite musicians: Jan Schultz on Fender bass, Brett Hoffman on drums, and Ira Friedman on Hammond organ and Wurlitzer electric piano. We played all the songs live, in the same room together, and let them come to life. And that's what's on the CD.
Video
Dave Keller performing "Love, Love, Love" (R. Earl/D.Keller) with Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Lowell Summer Music Series, Lowell, VT, August 29, 2009.
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6vn31rC37I
The Dave Keller Blues Band performing at Middle Earth in Bradford, Vermont on February 24, 2007. Jan Schultz on Fender bass; Brett Hoffman on drums; special guest George Brooks on harmonica. Video by Chris Jones, head hobbit emeritus.
The Dave Keller Blues Band performing at Middle Earth in Bradford, Vermont on February 24, 2007. Jan Schultz on Fender bass; Brett Hoffman on drums; special guest George Brooks on harmonica. Video by Chris Jones, head hobbit emeritus.
Previous Albums
 Dave Keller: vocals, guitar |
Down At The Aloha (SOLD OUT - check eBay or amazon.com) Junebug 4:27
It's a Struggle 3:44
Glory 4:18
Those Old Soul Singer 4:56
Slipped The Hook 4:09
Down At The Aloha 4:38
Everything I know 4:10
The Kid 2:29
Besides Our Love 4:28
Water, Brings Us Back 4:50
Jellyroll Bisque 2:28
Superhero 5:32
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Faith
 Dave Keller: vocals, guitar |
Faith (SOLD OUT - check eBay or amazon.com) The band's debut CD. I Wanna Know 3:03
Make Me Holler 4:30
West Helena Blues 5:00
Rope of Faith 4:13
When You Love Me 3:58
Long Cold Spring 5:05
Blue Jean Gal 3:33
The First Time 3:57
Answering Machine 3:23
Too Close for Comfort 4:26
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