Richard Daub is an independent musician, songwriter, and author. His first album, Songs From the Barn, was released in 2024 and includes an eclectic mix of songs written during a span of over three decades in the genres of rock, folk, punk, blues, jazz, rap. His music is available on the major streaming services:
2025 Releases
(Single, March 28, 2025)
Set in early-1980s Tampa about a boy who develops a crush on his second cousin during a family vacation.
(Single, February 14, 2025)
Staring into the eyes of death, the long day almost over, nothing left to look forward to, and all that remains is the hope that you were kind to others.
(Single, February 7, 2025)
A jazzy, Beat, Waits-ish song about seedy 42nd Street in 1990s Times Square before it became a Disneyfied tourist den.
(Single, January 10, 2025)
Acoustic song based on a Kerouac-inspired trip to San Francisco that included a visit to a bar in the Mission District.
2024 Releases
(Single, December 27, 2024)
Wilco-ish tune about the inevitability of certain points in one’s life.
(Single, December 18, 2024)
No pigs on the wing, but owls on the propeller watching the madness unfold with eyes wide open. Stay wise, my friends.
(Single, December 16, 2024)
A tribute to exploration of the mind, the planet, and psychedelia.
(Single, December 12, 2024)
A rap song based on the short story collection of the same name and a tribute to those I knew back in the 1980s during my formative years on Long Island’s South Shore.
(Single, December 10, 2024)
A punk song about Earl Anthony, one of the greatest bowlers of all time.
(Single, December 8, 2024)
A fantasy love song about a girl who always smelled so good.
(Track from Songs From the Barn, November 7, 2024)
A mock comic blues track in which I was able to stretch out my blues voice.
(Track from Songs From the Barn, November 7, 2024)
Written in 2010, a hokey tune about saying good-bye to a lover just prior to boarding the Bremerton Ferry back to Seattle, where I lived in the late 1990s.
(Track from Songs From the Barn, November 7, 2024)
Written in 2010, a song based on a dream I had about seeing Leonard Cohen in a bookstore.
(Track from Songs From the Barn, November 7, 2024)
A song about loss. Written in 2010.
(Track from Songs From the Barn, November 7, 2024)
In the summer of 2000, I was living in Eureka, California working on a novel and decided to attend a local fireworks show on the 4th of July. Like many others that evening, we showed up at the wrong place. A jazzy thing based on the recordings of Jack Kerouac reading his poetry with Steve Allen on piano.
(Track from Songs From the Barn, November 7, 2024)
Acoustic song, The second song I ever wrote, also in 1990 when I was in high school, that was so bad that I destroyed the lyrics some years later, so I took the couple of decent lines I remembered and recorded it in the summer of 2024, a tune about my impatience with living on Long Island and wanting to get the hell out of there.
(Track from Songs From the Barn, November 7, 2024)
The first song I ever wrote, written in 1990 when I was still in high school, about early encounters with alcohol. Country-ish, maybe Kris Kristofferson-ish.
(Album, November 7, 2024)
An eclectic mix of thirteen original songs written during a span of over three decades in the genres of rock, folk, punk, blues, jazz, rap.
Liner Notes
(Single, November 1, 2024)
A retro-pop dance tune about an evening of romance sparked by a frayed extension cord.
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