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Dan Weintraub
12+ albums
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About Dan Weintraub DAN WEINTRAUB BIOGRAPHY For nearly 25 years, Dan Weintraub’s music was held at bay as his life followed a more conventional course. But after a successful stretch in the academic world, his love of creating music reemerged with an undeniable intensity. The prolific songwriter’s rapidly expanding music catalog, featuring seven releases between 2007 and 2008, is best described as the product of a burning passion. Each of the albums, primarily self-produced in his home studio, represent a step in his evolution as a musician and writer. From his country and folk influenced debut entitled The Gap Between to the latest alternative rock driven releases, Suddenly Nothing, How They Hide and Malibu Cocktail, Weintraub is quickly refining his voice of creative expression and claiming a place among the most notable singer/songwriters in the New England region. In his youth, Weintraub drifted along enamored of the greats of classic rock - Steely Dan, The Allman Brothers, Traffic, Warren Zevon, and Jethro Tull. During his time at Brandeis University in the mid 1980s, he became politically active, finding himself in jail after protesting the CIA’s on-campus recruiting practices and the college’s decision to invest in South African businesses during Apartheid. Around the same time, musical endeavors began taking a prominent role in his life. First, he worked as a DJ at the school’s radio station, an opportunity that led him to explore new worlds of diverse musical styles
