Nov 26, 2013 House Of Blues Sunset Voodoo Lounge Peter Guralnick: "All of Dan's music reflects a keen intelligence and an irreverent sense of humor that reacts against orthodoxy of any kind..." Banned at the Bluebird in Nashville, played Farm Aid "The group is a dark and shambling throwback to the Crazy Horse of the early '70s" Leo Weekly About DrDan's Music Show From Relix Magazine: Relix -- music of your mind Doctor Dan's Music Show is a band that can be found currently doing the rounds of the New York club scene. The aim at an unpretentious blues-rock sound with funk and country influences, and do it well. The six-piece band is centered on guitarist, singer, and songwriter Dan Dubelman, and also includes noted bassist Jerry Jemmott and veteran jazz drummer Bernard Purdie. Rounding out the lineup are drummer Keith Copeland and keyboardist Bill Henry. Dubelman has some good songs that are a tad out in left field, while the band kicks up a storm, merging rock with blues, jazz, and funk. Dubelman is also a more than competent guitarist... Grateful Dead's Percussionist MICKEY HART RELIX music for the mind - Dr. Dan's Music Show was previously reviewed last year, and its debut CD, Unheard Of, is now available. It's an impressive mixture of poetic lyrics, classy jazz and blues-based rock. The songs of Dan Dubleman are spiced up by some exemplary playing and a strong production. The opening song contains the great line "You take Bruce Springsteen far too seriously." Right on! Also of note are the eloquent "Flame" and the almost spoken Lou Reed-like "Opium." Despite the Springsteen put-down, this album should appeal to his fans as well as those of Elliott Murphy and r Bob Dylan, especially if you like some inventive musical twists Dr. Dan The real-life story. Dan grew up on a movie set At 5 years old, Dan won a Gold Lion at the Cannes Film for his role in the "Sharing" commercial for Cracker Jacks which also featured Jack Gilford. Dan continued studying acting at Oxford where he concentrated on Shakespeare and Chekov. Dan began playing music as a teenager. By the time he got to Cornell he was playing more than he was studying and still managed to make the Dean's List Dan applied to get into Pulitzer Prize winning writer Alison Lurie's elite class for fiction. Accepted, he began to write "American Trash", a novella. This piece earned him a scholarship and fellowship to John's Hopkins world-famous fiction program under John Barth. In 1988, Dan received an MA in fiction from Johns Hopkins He moved to New York where he started an independent record label and toured the U.S. with his own band, Dr. Dan's Music Show , playing with the likes of Bernard Purdie and Jerry Jemmott (the rhythm section from Aretha Franklin and BB King). To recuperate from the road, he moved to Austin, Texas. He returned to New York but could not make ends meet, so he joined the Rolling Stones' review, Sticky Fingers, playing Keith Richards and touring the deep South.

• published: 08 Dec 2013
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