John Dunbar

John Dunbar was the leader of the band A Confederacy Of Dunces who released the critically acclaimed discs Tsk Tsk TSk and Dunces With Wolves. Since the demise of the band John has put 3 solo discs ( The Man Who Never Learns, New & Interesting Developements In Uselessness and last year's The Moment You"ve Not Been Waiting For). Between those releases he wrote every song for the short lived band IFFY on the disc Close Calls With Happiness. He was the composer for the musical The Last Hand Laundry In Chinatown, a collaboration with playwright Alvin Eng that is featured in the anthology Tokens from Temple University Press. John has just completed recording 2 new exciting CDs that are soon to be released. One is called Excursions In Trevorland that features 11 songs based on short stories by the master author William Trevor. And a Rutles version of The Kinks, that was called The Konks until learning of another band with the same name.What critics have said about John's work"A talented multi-instrumentalist whose songwriting is meaningful and assured with catchy tunes and well-drawn portraits," Ira Robbins Trouser Press Record Guide "An excellent songwriter with a very orginal approach, which is rare," Paul Zollo, author of Songwriters on Songwriters "Finessed, masterfully understated and melodically rich, "- CMJ