David Dondero


David Dondero is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2006, NPR's All Songs Considered named David one of the "best living songwriters" alongside Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Tom Waits.

Music career

Dondero started his musical career on drums at the age of nine, due in part to the fact that he "was always drumming on stuff with my hands". Dondero released four records with the Clemson, South Carolina–based punk/hardcore band Sunbrain, before breaking up in 1995. The following year, Dondero joined This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb for nearly two years as their drummer. He left in 1998 to focus on his solo material. He has since released fourteen solo albums – four with Ghostmeat Records, three with Future Farmer Records two with Team Love Records, and the last five have been self released. His latest album, titled Immersion Therapy, was released in August 2023.
Dondero has toured with such acts as Crooked Fingers, Jolie Holland, Against Me!, The Mountain Goats, David Bazan, Preston School of Industry, Bright Eyes, Tilly and the Wall, Erik Petersen of Mischief Brew, Spoon, and Willy Mason.

Discography

Albums

  • The Pity Party –
  • Spider West Myshkin and a City Bus –
  • Shooting at the Sun with a Water Gun –
  • The Transient –
  • Spider West Myshkin and a City Bus –
  • Live at the Hemlock –
  • South of the South –
  • Simple Love –
  • # Zero with a Bullet –
  • A Pre-existing Condition –
  • This Guitar –
  • Golden Hits vol. 1 –
  • Inside the Cats Eye –
  • The Filter Bubble Blues –
  • Immersion Therapy –

    Splits

  • "David Dondero/Chris Terry" –
  • "David Dondero/Mischief Brew" – "Two Boxcars"
  • "David Dondero/Pine Hill Haints"; Arkam Records

    Compilations

  • Ghostmeat 5th Anniversary 1994–1999
  • ''Parts – Ghostmeat Records Compilation''

    Published Works

  • Chaos The Cat. David Dondero. ISBN 9798988616108. 322 pages.