Biography

Dusty Dave & The Heart Attacks - One Beer Left
After releasing their debut single on Rhythm Bomb Records in 2014, The Heart Attacks are finally back with a full length album, featuring an even more brute sound and a new singer called Dusty Dave.
Dave totally lives up to his name and graces the 14 songs with his distinctive, smokey voice, sometimes reminiscent of the mississippi delta, sometimes reminiscent of chicago.
He is getting support by Lucky Steve on guitar, Dynamite White on Blues Harp, Rockin’ Bende on Drums and Ray Black on Bass, who is also in charge as the producer of this record.
„One Beer Left“ is a longplayer which ranges stilistically from extensive, spherical blues boppers to groovy early 60’s R&B to dirty Rockin’ Blues. A musical challenge which is pretty hard to accomplish but invites the audience to an interesting trip through the world of the blues.
In contrast to other blues bands, who cover classical material in a perfect way, Dusty Dave & The Heart Attacks prove that they are darn good at one central thing: putting their hearts and souls into their music.
The work on this record started already in 2013, when the band wrote songs like „Champion of the blues“ or worked on their own version of the well known traditional, „In my time of dying“.
From this time on the band worked hard on cover material and came up with their own material aswell.
But it is a well known fact, that the best work gets done, when under pressure and that’s why most of the original songs by the band were written shortly before the studio dates or even in the car, driving to the studio in the morning, just like „Candyman Boogie“ for example.
When you listen to the recordings you clearly hear the atmosphere of the sessions, which were held at vintage recording studio „Black Shack Recordings“. Everything was tracked live and in one room together. Obviously a situation which demands full engangement and concentration of the 5 musicians but also stimulates the emotional aspect of the performances. There are only a few older recordings from 2014, where Dave’s voice had to be overdubbed or other songs, where boogie woogie piano talent Sascha Kommer layed his mojo on them.
The outcome is an album loaded with 50 minutes of dynamite, which once ignited, leaves nothing but dust and the blues. And perhaps one last beer.


Dusty Dave & The Heart Attacks are new on the scene and smell like brisk haircream, water of cologne and guest room soap. But the makers of the band Lucky Steve, Dynamite White, Ray Black, Rockin' Bende und Dusty Dave are already playing successfully in other bands, like the The Booze Bombs, Devils & Sons, The Hidden Charms or Fenders 55.
Their new project is dedicated to blues-boppers and rockin’ blues on the trails of John Lee Hooker, Sonny Terry and Little Walter. But also material by Tom Waits or original songs by the band themself are part of the repertoire.
In 3 words, you can call it raw, loud and of course danceable.