Dead Man Winter

Dave Simonett has spent almost two decades as the lead singer, guitar player and songwriter for the widely popular and beloved roots band, Trampled by Turtles. He also fronts Dead Man Winter, a bull-bodied, emotionally resonant brand of American-infused indie rock band. He boldly stepped forward with a shining collection of solo material for the first time under his own name called Red Tail (2020). While Dead Man Winter's Furnace (2017) was a much-needed cathartic experience for Simonett during a dark time, he is not connecting these songs on Red Tail to his own life, as he prefers to allow listeners to develop their own interpretations. The conversational and poetic style in which Simonett writes lends itself to this perfectly, inspired by the spacious and stark Northern woods of Minnesota, where he's from. Drawing from the outdoors, Simonett uses light, weather, and imagery to paint introspective, cinematic scenes that are easy to lose yourself in.