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FDR

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About Me


The New Deal was born in the fall of 2005 when I began the daunting adventure of digging myself out of a creative rut by simultaneously writing and recording 50 songs in 50 days - one song a day (I drove everyone in my life crazy). From my bedroom apartment on Avenue C - overlooking the FDR drive, the east river and the lighted city skyline - I completed a new song each night between October 14th and Dec. 6th (with a few days off). Often recording until dawn, I played all the instruments - drums, bass, guitars, piano, and organ. Any harmonies and other vocals you hear are also just mine. Of the resulting 50 self-produced songs, 32 will be available in the spring of 2006 as a three-disc set entitled The New Deal. If you play it loud you'll hear the ambulances, buses and traffic roaring by on the FDR drive.
- FDR, Dec 17th 2005, NYC
Also check out my alternate myspace site every month to hear and download more songs and for a sneak peak at some post New Deal recordings and B-sides. myspace.com/FDRtheNewDeal
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Member Since: 10/18/2005
Band Website: FDRmusic.com
Band Members: 1 band member - FDR plays everything, engineered, mixed, and produced the tracks. Also a mac powerbook G4, pro-tools, some mics, and a M-box.
Sounds Like: leonard cohen, the magnetic fields, lou reed, postal service, calexico, modest mouse, folk implosion, the flaming lips, sufjan stevens, iron and wine, donovan, m. ward, randy newman, bright eyes, 80's bob dylan, the long winters, beck, broken social scene, willie nelson, sun kil moon, wilco, bonnie prince billy, stars, the shins, jonathan richman, ben folds, josh ritter, pedro the lion, tim buckley, the mountain goats, simon and garfunkel, joseph arthur, a.c. newman.

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Record Label: Independent-self release (Rusty Muffler Records)
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My Blog

Dick, what say we catch a little FDR?

Dick,For chrissake, please come with me next Wednesday at 7 to the season ending FDR show at Banjo Jim's. I NEED to hear those phat beats and addictive melodies - lord knows I have an addictive perso...
Posted by FDR on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:03:00 PST

Brit, are you going to FDR’s show next Wednesday? FDR is such a hunk! It

To:[email protected]:[email protected]:PARISISBURNING @MENSA.ORGBrit,Well, I'm back in rehab again . . . Sigh. The food still sucks! But seriously, the only thing getting me through these hard...
Posted by FDR on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:01:00 PST

FDR on YouTube

fdr is on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/v/OMAeuyGeGKs
Posted by FDR on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:56:00 PST

the new album Pawnshop Romance is available

I've got a big announcement . . . I have a new record. Pawnshop Romance.Yes, I know, you're probably saying, "so does paris hilton, bon joviand william shatner " . But this one is different, better...
Posted by FDR on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:52:00 PST

joshua tree

"Yep, old Johnny handsome rides again" he thought. The sun shone down on th asphalt two lane highway slicing though the desert 20 miles south of Joshua Tree. He pulled into the parking lot beside ...
Posted by FDR on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:40:00 PST

Days of Collecting Cans...

I collect cans . . . tall boys, beer, soda, you name it - bottles too. I used to be a mailman in an office building in midtown, but I had some problems there, you know, and now I collect cans. tallb...
Posted by FDR on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:16:00 PST

Los Angeles - Jet Lag, Tequila, Vicodin and Sunshine

I played a few dates on the west coast recently. I ended up in first class next to a very sweet fashion model exhausted by the rigors of modeling, but very chatty. She explained to me, as the settin...
Posted by FDR on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:25:00 PST

Stellar FDR Live Show Review

No Dead Air8/10/06Daily Hampshire Gazette (Pioneer Valley/Northampton, MA)written by Ken MaiuriMost everyone can relate to being lazy about daily exercise, but a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter named...
Posted by FDR on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:57:00 PST

Exclusive cliff notes on the songs from The New Deal

The New Deal: Notes on the Songs1. boombox left out in the rainthe power of a beautiful girl to make you 1) fall in love 2) start a fight or3) rob a liquor store2. count to ten/still standing on your ...
Posted by FDR on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:24:00 PST

New shows posted on this page and an exclusive new track at www.myspace.com/FDRtheNewDeal

See the shows section on myspace to make note of some brand new just announced FDR live appearences. Shows added in NYC, Phily, Cambridge, and LA . But more importantly. FDR has just posted at myspace...
Posted by FDR on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:11:00 PST