Dustin Boyer is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is a longtime collaborator of Welsh musician

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. He also collaborated with many other artists, such as

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, Andrew Dorff, and

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Career

Boyer comes from

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. He was a member of a high school

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group ''Turkey Mallet''. They released one album called ''Chiaroscuro'' in 1996. The band also featured his brother Trevor Boyer on drums and singer

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. Then he studied at

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. In 2000, he founded a rock trio ''Descanso'' which also featured his brother and Casey Butler. They released three studio albums. He also played the guitar on records by

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and Camille Bright-Smith. He also played the guitar on ''Long Live Me'' by ''The Screamin' Lords''. In 2005, he started playing in John Cale's band. He also performed on his albums ''

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'' (2005; one song only), ''

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'' (2011), ''

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'' (2012) and ''

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'' (2023). He also starred in the

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-directed music video for John Cale's song "Catastrofuk". He also frequently performs with guitarist

. Landau said in a 2006 interview that Boyer is one of his favourite performers. Boyer is also frontman of The Dusty Meadows Band which released three records. Boyer's debut solo album called ''Fun for Mentals'' was released in 2007 and was followed by ''Hell's Not Her'' (2009) and ''Cahuenga Gardens'' (2016). The last one featured

and

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on vocals. His song "Pretend" was featured in a movie called ''

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'' with

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in the lead role.

Discography

Solo

* ''Fun for Mentals'' (2007) * ''Hell's Not Her'' (2009) * ''Cahuenga Gardens'' (2016) * ''Love Joy Death'' (2017) * ''Devotion'' (2022)

Session

* ''Chiaroscuro'' (Turkey Mallet, 1996) * ''

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'' (Macy Gray, 2001) * ''Dirty Child'' (Rosey, 2002) * ''

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'' (Jennifer Love Hewitt, 2002) * ''Descanso'' (Descanso, 2003) * ''Ugly on the Inside'' (Descanso, 2004) * ''Shiva Machine'' (Girish, 2005) * ''Sunday Drivers'' (Descanso, 2005) * ''

'' (John Cale, 2005) * ''Long Live Me'' (The Screamin' Lords, 2007) * ''

Circus Live ''Circus Live'' is a 3-disc live album by John Cale released on February 19, 2007. The contents were recorded live on the 2004 and 2006 European tours. One of the discs is a DVD containing rehearsal footage, a music video, and a two audio trac ...

'' (John Cale, 2007) * ''The Great Divide'' ( Camille Bright-Smith, 2008) * ''Believe in Yourself'' (The Dusty Meadows Band, 2010) * ''Bullet'' (Renegade Creation, 2010) * ''Spanky'' (Spanky Davis, 2010) * ''

'' (John Cale, 2011) * ''Two Thousand Twenty'' (Spanky Davis, 2010) * ''

'' (John Cale, 2012) * ''Tapes in the Addict'' (The Dusty Meadows Band, 2012) * ''The Abominal Bad Seed and Spiritual Companion'' (The Dusty Meadows Band, 2014) * ''6 String Theory'' (Glossop, 2015) * '' M:FANS'' (John Cale, 2016) * ''Sweet Birds of Youth'' (Richard James Simpson, 2017) * ''Deep Dream'' (Richard James Simpson, 2019) * ''Sugar the Pill'' (Richard James Simpson, 2021) * ''3 of 3'' EP (Spanky Davis, 2021) * ''Run Into the Arrows'' (Shannon Hudson, 2022) * ''

'' (John Cale, 2023)

References

External links

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