Hey friends,

It's my sincere pleasure to officially announce the release of "Oh Smokey"!

first of 8 songs rolls out on August 9th! - pre-save it here  https://ffm.to/ohsmokey

With a slow hand and a tender heart Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman)

layed down just about everything you hear on oh smokey. Why I mearly stumbled in and sang my lines..like some pre-diabetic Frank Sinatra. Which is all to say, I did it my way...sad slow songs about God and death...and the soft surrender.

There will be vinyl too! And a fall tour.

Scroll down for dates and tickets

My deepest thanks for your continued love and support of clem snide.

Eef

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PODCAST:

A Life In Song
with Clem Snide

A Life In Song is born of the idea that everybody has a story to tell, and everyone deserves a song. Each episode begins with an ordinary person sharing an incredible, heartbreaking, and often life-changing experience, and culminates with an original song written and performed by long time indie fave Clem Snide.

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Tour Dates

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EXTENDED EDITION OF CLEM SNIDE’S FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN 5 YEARS OUT NOW ON RAMSEUR RECORDS.

Produced by Scott Avett.

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A COLLECTION OF COVERS OF BOB DYLAN, LAUREN HILL, JOURNEY, CAT STEVENS, THE LEMONHEADS, JACKSON BROWNE AND MORE.

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About

The last ten years have been a rollercoaster of deep despair and amazing opportunities that somehow present themselves at the last possible second,” says Eef Barzelay. “During that time, the band bottomed out, I lost my house, and I had to declare bankruptcy. The only way to survive was to try to transcend myself, to find some kind of deeper, spiritual relationship with life. Once I committed to that, all these little miracles started happening.”

Forever Just Beyond, Barzelay’s stunning new album under the Clem Snide moniker, may just be the most miraculous of them all. Produced by Scott Avett, the record is a work of exquisite beauty and profound questioning, a reckoning with faith and reality that rushes headlong into the unknown and the unknowable. The songs here grapple with hope and depression, identity and perception, God and the afterlife, humanizing thorny existential issues and delivering them with the intimate, understated air of a late-night conversation between old friends. Avett’s production is similarly warm and inviting, and the careful, spacious arrangement of gentle guitars and spare percussion carves a wide path for Barzelay’s insightful lyrics and idiosyncratic delivery.

“I look up to Eef with total respect and admiration...”
— Scott Avett

“I look up to Eef with total respect and admiration,” says Avett, “and I hope to survive like he survives: with total love for the new and the unknown. Eef’s a crooner and an indie darling by sound and a mystic sage by depth. That’s not common, but it’s beautiful.”

Named for a William S. Borroughs character, Clem Snide first emerged from Boston as a three-piece in the early 1990’s, and the group would go on to become a cult and critical favorite, picking up high profile fans from Bon Iver to Ben Folds over the course of three decades and more than a dozen studio albums. NPR highlighted the Israeli-born Barzelay as “the most underrated songwriter in the business today, with a sneakily firm grasp on poignancy and humor,” while Rolling Stone hailed his songwriting as “soulful and incisive,” and The New Yorker praised his music’s “soothing melodies and candid wit.”

Barzelay currently resides in Nashville, TN.

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