Dan Reeder is a 70-year-old artist and musician who has spent the past three decades creating a unique blend of folk, art, and DIY innovation from his home in Nuremberg, Germany. Born in Louisiana and raised in California, Reeder’s work spans music, visual art, and homemade instruments—everything from steel-string guitars and banjos to PVC trombones. 
Prior to a brief tour in 2024, Reeder hadn’t played on his home soil in fifteen years, preferring to create quietly from a distance—far from the spotlight but never truly unseen. He now performs alongside his daughter, Peggy Reeder, whose harmonies and the pair’s charming, humorous family banter are sure to captivate any audience.
With a sound that combines the similar warm, weathered voice of Ted Lucas with playful, quirky lyrics, Reeder is an outsider artist who marches to the beat of his own drum. He is Oh Boy Records' longest-signed artist after Prine himself, a relationship that began when Prine heard Reeder’s homemade demo and signed him to the label in the early 2000s. 

Reeder’s music is self-produced and meticulously crafted, with every note, instrument, and recording detail borne from his hands. Reeder has stayed true to his unconventional path, creating art and music on his own terms, often in solitude. His songs—frequently a mix of dark humor and whimsical insight—carry a distinct charm. Still, twenty years after John Prine first admired his work, Reeder is still having fun.
 

Today, Menno Versteeg shares "Backwater, NW", the final single from his upcoming debut album, Why We Run, out December 13th on Royal Mountain Records. A melancholic and gentle folk tune about feeling lost and alone, it showcases yet another string on the bow of the leader of Hollerado and a 1/4 of supergroup Anyway Gang.

The track comes just after Versteeg finished both a headline west coast jaunt and east coast dates opening for Elliot BROOD. In just two days, he heads out on the road once more throughout the US with Tokyo Police Club, before returning to Canada for more headline dates and, finally, ending the year opening for TALK for two nights at Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom. A full list of dates are below.

Over the course of Why We Run's 12 songs, Versteeg is at his lyrical best and most musically diverse. With the soft indie folk of debut single "Fish Out Of Water" featuring Doug Paisley, the alt-country rambunctiousness of "Change A Tire" or the contemplative album closer "A Light On In You", Versteeg channels his wide musical knowledge and pulls from every corner of his impressive career. The result is a record that is an artist at his most honest, most vulnerable and most exciting, twenty years in.