Over 120 albums of original material now available on BandCamp!
I'm excited to have a new home studio, rebuilt after a forest fire in 2020 burned down the old one, and to have all my gear finally out of storage. I now have recorded over 120 albums of original material. What can I say, I love writing and recordings songs, and it just happened! So check me out on Bandcamp. For best results, download music at minimum 320 MP3. Enjoy!
A sampling of songs from different projects:
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine - Dan Frechette (from "Lucky Day")
Some Kind of Phantom - Dan Frechette and the Dylanaires (from "Deal with the Devil")
New York City Sundance - Dan Frechette & Laurel Thomsen (from "Driving By Candlelight")
Why Bandcamp?
In August 2020 while Laurel and I were evacuated due to a forest fire, a few fans bought my entire 100+ album digital discography which paid for our groceries for a whole month, including replacing those we'd had to leave behind. It would take hundreds of millions of plays on the popular streaming services for me to have a similar amount of "play-dough." Listeners pay for such services monthly, but only a few cents here and there make it into the hands and bellies of the artists actually creating the music.
The gratitude I feel towards Bandcamp.com is sent out to the cosmos daily. They offer a platform where you're free to upload as many albums as you like and they only take a small percentage of your sales in return. If you look up a photo of their staff, it's easy to see that these are good folks. Most other platforms have done away with downloads entirely and offer musicians a ridiculously low rate per play, where it would take well over 200 plays to make a single dollar. Too many musicians are dying of exposure these days, while non-musician gate-keepers get rich. It's criminal.
If you appreciate my music and would like to help support me, besides the hard copies I tote to my live shows, I encourage you to support me on Bandcamp.com
Select tracks and albums are also now available on streaming platforms: