Hello press friend, I’m Dave Connis, an author and musician.
Bio
Dave writes hooky, layered indie folk that feels like golden hour. Influenced by Damien Rice, Novo Amor, Coldplay, but specifically the Yellow album, Gregory Alan Isakov, and/or whatever he’s listening to at the time. He writes lyrics that wrestle with the tensions of the every day, wanting to achieve your dreams, but never being quite able to get there. Wanting to be a better person, but always falling to a flaw. When he’s sick of thinking about existential tensions he writes short stories into songs or writes songs about stories. He’s also an agented author who’s published books with Harper Collins and Random House.
He’s released two albums, and is in the middle of releasing 4 albums and 4 eps from a backlog of music that he made, but never shared.
He lives in Chattanooga, TN with his wife, three kids, three sons & one daughter. Yes, four kids. When he’s not writing songs or books, I interpret software developer speak as a Lead Content Designer at OutSystems, a low-code development platform. He’s a member of the Jedi Counsel, facilities manager at the Sanctum Sanctorum, and have a propensity to daydream whenever I attempt to be an adult.
Latest Release
The story of Origin
Origin isn’t just a typical release. It’s a chapter in a story. My story.
At the beginning of the summer, I was at the funeral of a close friend I wrote a lot of poetry with in high school. I remembered we wrote the lyrics to a Cold War-inspired love song together called 1989, (I had the name first, Taylor) and that, at some point, I recorded it, but you couldn’t listen to it anywhere. It was socked away on an external hard drive where I’ve dumped all my music since middle school.
I wanted to remember that moment with my friend and went into my external hard drive to find it. While I was there, I saw folders and folders of music. Most of it was music I’d never shared. I don’t know why. Maybe Spotify or digital music distribution wasn’t a huge thing, when I’d made it? I was shocked at how much I had and I just kept asking, “Why is all this just sitting here?”
So, I grouped the songs. Rounding them together by years. I wound up with 4 albums and 4 EPs worth of songs I was still proud of, even if some of them were imperfect. So, I’m releasing them. All of them. For free. And I’m writing about the journey, from who I was when I wrote the first song, Puzzle Piece, at 16 years-old, all the way until the last song I recorded, to my newsletter of 1.2k friends.