Like a good dive bar, blues is at its most authentic when it is gritty. Delivering honesty through rusty guitar tones and an acidic rasp, Dane Overton lives that raw, unaffected blues. A native of the tiny south east Australian village of Gerringong, Dane’s powerful sound is born of both the music and geography of his upbringing… landing him somewhere between remote Australia and the Mississippi Delta.
Dane Overton was raised on the fallout from the invention of the electric guitar – not just the blues but all the music that followed it…from the grandiosity of ’70s rock to the intentional simplicity of grunge. The decades of music that have descended from the blues make up Dane Overton’s musical vocabulary as much as the blues is his language.
While honing his own craft, just last year Dane started working with The Joy Williams Band, made up of Darcy Wall on bass and Jak Wilson on drums. Now rolling as a fully potent three piece, the band’s first single Bones is a blues-rock number worthy of a bar room brawl.
A wine-o’s ballad of heartbreak and demise, Bones is a brutally honest account of a worst case scenario relationship breakdown. From the solid, distorted opening baseline, the intentions of Dane Overton and the Joy Williams Band are immediately clear…this is raw, dirty blues coming straight from the heart.
Recently supporting such names as Phil Jamieson and Kim Churchill, punters have the opportunity to witness Dane Overton’s dirty brand of smoke-soaked blues as the band hit the road to showcase Bones before putting the finishing touches on their debut EP.
New single ‘Bones’ out now on all digital platforms
iTunes – Apple Music – Spotify – Google Music
Dane Overton and The Joy Williams Band ‘Bones’ Single Tour
Friday July 27 – The Townie, Sydney, NSW
Saturday July 28 – Stag and Hunter Hotel, Newcastle, NSW
Saturday August 11 – Smiths Alternative, Canberra, ACT
Saturday August 18 – Traf East Blues Festival, Trafalgar, VIC
Saturday September 1 – Macquarie Inn, Dubbo, NSW
