Live Music @theBrewCabin with Dave Keller

Dave Keller is an award-winning, triple-threat: an outstanding singer, an intense guitarist, and a talented

songwriter.  Fueled by his love of deep Southern soul and blues music, his performances ring out with

passion, integrity, and an ability to break down the barriers between performer and audience.

Dave Keller, based in Montpelier, VT, has steadily built a national reputation as a top notch soul/blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is a two-time Blues Music Award (BMA) nominee. Fueled by his love of deep Southern soul and blues, Keller’s performances ring out with passion, integrity, and an ability to break down the barriers between performer and audience.

His new album, You Get What You Give: Duets (Tastee-Tone Records, Dec. 2020), hit #6 on the Living Blues radio chart (the gold standard for soul and blues airplay). It features some of the finest singers in the roots music world (Joe Louis Walker, Trudy Lynn, Johnny Rawls, Annika Chambers, Dawn Tyler Watson, etc.) joining Keller on a batch of his brand new original songs. All money from album sales is being donated to groups working for racial justice and equity.

In early 2020, Keller released his first-ever live album, Live At The Killer Guitar Thriller! (Tastee-Tone Records), which won the Tammie Award for Best Album of the Year. His previous studio CD, Every Soul’s a Star was produced by Grammy-winner Jim Gaines (Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Tower of Power), and released on esteemed soul/blues label Catfood Records. It earned a 2019 BMA nomination for Best Soul Blues Album, and hit #1 on the Roots Music Report Soul Blues chart.

The press has been particularly enthusiastic. AXS.com named Keller one of “The Best 13 Blues Singers”, and he has been featured in USA Today’s notable songs of the week. France’s renowned Soul Bag recently featured Keller in a full-page interview. Elmore magazine calls Keller, “a magnificent soul singer, his luxuriant voice rising flawlessly to every occasion.” And U.S. standard bearer Living Blues calls Keller’s music “moving and powerful…confirms his rightful place in the soul universe…Steve Cropper-like riffs and soaring vocals…songwriting genius…straight-to-the-heart soul.”

Based in Vermont since 1993, Keller grew up in Massachusetts where he picked up guitar at age 16, but amazingly, didn’t begin singing in public until age 20. Discovered by legendary blues guitarist Ronnie Earl (Keller guested on Earl’s BMA-nominated 2010 album Living In the Light), Keller learned his art firsthand from some of the deepest soul and blues musicians: Johnny Rawls, Robert Ward, Paul Rishell, and Mighty Sam McClain.

He has released nine CDs, including the 2014 BMA-nominated Soul Changes, recorded with Al Green’s original Hi Rhythm Section in Memphis. Keller is also the 2012 winner of the International Blues Challenge’s Best Self-Released CD Award. He has performed at the largest blues festivals in the East (e.g., PA Blues Fest, North Atlantic Blues Fest), and top venues such as B.B. King’s (Memphis) and Biscuits and Blues (S.F., CA).

Check his music out here