David Nance is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter from Grand Island, Nebraska.
Nance was born in Grand Island and lived there as a child before moving to Omaha, where he gigged locally as a singer-songwriter.[1] He played live and self-produced and released lo-fi demo recordings which brought him local attention; some of these were whole-album covers of records such as Berlin by Lou Reed, Goats Head Soup by the Rolling Stones, and Beatles for Sale.[2] In 2013 he relocated to Los Angeles where he recorded three albums' worth of material, all of which he scrapped, describing them as "failed attempts".[1] In 2016, his album More than Enough was picked up for distribution by Ba Da Bing Records. He followed in 2017 with a second release for Ba Da Bing, Negative Boogie, and toured the United States after it was issued in July of that year.[3] Despite having been recorded formally in a studio, the album retained the lo-fi styling of Nance's earlier work.[4]
Discography
Studio albums
- Let's Argue (Unread MC 2012)
- Lush Bruises Suck Rice and Barley (Unread MC 2013)
- Actor's Diary (Grapefruit Records LP 2013)
- Half Assed for Posterity (Unread MC 2013)
- More Than Enough (Ba Da Bing LP 2016)
- Negative Boogie (Ba Da Bing LP 2017)
- Peaced and Slightly Pulverized (as David Nance Group) (Trouble In Mind LP 2018)
- Staunch Honey (Trouble In Mind LP 2020)
Cover albums
- Berlin (Self-released 2016)
- Goat's Head Soup (w/ Simon Joyner) (Grapefruit LP 2017)
- Doug Sahm and Band (Self-released 2017)
- Beatles for Sale (Self-released 2017)
- Duty Now for the Future (Self-released 2020)
Singles and EPs
- Live at WFMU (Forward Fast MC 2016)
- Amethyst (Richie Records, Testostertunes 7" vinyl single 2017)
Other appearances
- Simon Joyner – Ghosts (Sing, Eunuchs! 2LP 2012)
References
- 1 2 Exploring the Ragged and Raw Rock’n’ Roll of Nebraska Songwriter David Nance. Vice, July 2, 2016.
- ↑ Biography, Allmusic
- ↑ Everybody Is Freaking Out To David Nance's New Dance Move, The 'Negative Boogie'. NPR, May 18, 2017.
- ↑ Omaha rocker David Nance finally hits a real studio—and thankfully fails to clean up his act. Chicago Reader, July 27, 2017.