"Dave Boutette's Midwest is full of passion, humor and shaken grace. Influenced by songwriters that span from Chuck Berry to Lyle Lovett, Dave Boutette documents the trips and triumphs of life between the coasts. With a full band or just a guitar, Boutette calls up images of parking lots, college towns and Camaros to reveal a Midwest experience worthy of space in any collection of latter day American songwriting.

Dave released his second CD for Ann Arbor's Thursday Records, Dave Boutette And The Old Dog Songbook. Written for anyone who's lost too many afternoons hanging around guitar shops or record stores, Songbook features Boutette's perspective on the weary and wiser musician's life.

Before stepping out on his own, Boutette spent ten years with the Detroit-based alterna-rock bar band, The Junk Monkeys. The band toured the nation relentlessly and recorded under the Warner Bros/Metal Blade label from 1990-93.

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