Montana songwriter collaborates with Coldplay producer Jeff Ament

Press release

Missoula songwriter David Boone has returned after a seven-year hiatus to release the first two singles from his forthcoming album “A Bubble To Burst.”  The tracks, “Country Song” and “Work in Progress,” were produced by UK-based Danton Supple, known for his work producing acts like Coldplay and U2, and “Work in Progress features Pearl Jam bassist and Big Sandy native Jeff Ament on bass.

Boone was sidelined with medical issues, and this represents his first release since his 2012 album, titled “DAWNS.”

The first singles are already garnering praise internationally:

“This is called ‘Country Song’ from an incredible new artist called David Boone and I could swear 

blind I’ve known it my whole life after one listen. I think it’s just gorgeous. I just think he’s extraordinary. I think a lot of you are going to fall in love with this,” said Guy Garvey, lead singer of Elbow and host of 

“Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour“ on BBC Radio 6 Music

Through the month of May, Boone has also made available what he is calling “a time capsule recording.” Consisting of 12 previously unreleased tracks recorded in 2007, the collection titled “The First Stand, The Final Straw” is a sort of “lost album,” Boone says.

“I was searching for an old demo to submit for a film set to take place in 1969, and I was digging through a few sheds and boxes, ‘til I came across an old hard drive. I opened a folder titled “HISTORY,” and I vaguely recognized all the song titles. But to be honest, I don’t recall much of the details surrounding this certain batch of recordings. In the years since the songs were recorded, I struggled with severe long-term memory impairment, from health related issues. So it all felt very vague to me. To stumble across 12 of your own songs that you hardly recognize. To add to to the eeriness, when I opened the file for the first song “All in My Head” it said the song had been recorded in December of 1969 — the exact year of the film I was submitting to. Only I was born in ’81. It was just bizarre”

Boone’s health spiral downward began in 2011 after he toured the country, promoting his album “Dawns.”  His wife and 1-year-old son, Meyers, were in tow and a publicist and radio promoter were on the payroll. But the profits were not coming in.

“I went into a very difficult period. And it was sort of a nervous breakdown period.”

Boone lost sleep.  His anxiety swelled.  He was prescribed several medications, one that eventually led to an allergic reaction.

“This prompted them to take me off of all of these medications, abruptly, overnight,” he said. “And I ended up in an ER.  I was having seizures.”

It was an emotional war zone that led to the loss of his memory and put him in insolation for two years.  On top of the severely debilitating physical symptoms, Boone developed extreme PTSD.

“I lost my memory, so I lost all my songs, which my songs, for me in life had always been a way for me to cope,” he said. “And I always wrote songs to deal with periods in my life and get through them.  And I lost that tool.”

After seeing a specialist, David has been on a slow path to recovery for the past four years.  His wife, Stephanie, and son, Meyers, have stayed by his side every step of the way.

“I don’t know if I ever would’ve recorded, except Steph kind of challenged me,” Boone said.

For Boone, the new songs describe his family’s seven-year journey — one of trauma, of invaluable time lost together and of his healing.

“Anyone who has trauma would tell you it’s hard to see beyond what is not immediately in front of you,” he said. “But the people outside of you can see much better than you, because you’re always focused on what you’re still in. So I’m still in the bubble for all I know. But my wife and my counselor would say, ‘You’re not in the bubble anymore. You’ve got one leg out. You definitely peeked your eyes out a couple times. Your arms are out.’ And I think they would contribute a lot of that to the music.’

The power of music is giving him the strength to allow this bubble he has been in to burst., he said, and now Boone is making up for lost time:

He recently signed a 6-song deal with Sony EMI to produce custom scores, and his first song with Sony was recently placed in the international hit television series, “Erkenci Kus” (“Early Birds”).

And he is making his older collection available for free to the public as an effort to reconnect to the community at large.

“I felt like putting this old batch of songs out for free is all a part of the healing process, it’s part of what I love about art; the ability to give a gift,” he said. “It’s me just putting myself back out there, one step at a time.”

People can listen to his recent Score with Sony Music for the song “Deck of Cards” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3YoCwdtctM

People can download “The First Stand, The Final Straw,” a time capsule recording, by visiting Boone’s site at http://www.davidboonemusic.com. There is an option to download the music for free, and to donate. All proceeds will go to the mixing and developing of the old recordings for a vinyl release. Three of the tracks were recorded and mixed by Whitefish resident Toby Scott, who recorded Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The USA,” “The River,” and “Ghost of Tom Joad” albums.

Pre-orders of the album “A Bubble To Burst” featuring Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, are also available at Boone’s site.

People can listen to the first single, “Country Song,” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8YNNv7xV5w/.