Geoff Berner

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Volcano God 03:30 Tools
Good Luck Now 02:10 Tools
Maginot Line 04:25 Tools
Lucky Goddamn Jew 02:25 Tools
Weep, Bride, Weep 05:54 Tools
Luck In Exile 03:35 Tools
Whiskey Rabbi 04:47 Tools
Dalloy Polizei 03:16 Tools
The Whiskey 03:45 Tools
King of the Gangsters 03:36 Tools
Half German Girlfriend 01:58 Tools
Can't Stay Dry 02:37 Tools
Light Enough to Travel 05:11 Tools
Wealthy Poet 03:25 Tools
Clown and Bard 04:13 Tools
Would It Kill You? 03:05 Tools
Play, Gypsy, Play 04:12 Tools
One Shoe 04:10 Tools
No Tabacco 04:17 Tools
Fukher 02:44 Tools
Traitor Bride 03:21 Tools
Widow Bride 05:06 Tools
Shut In 05:47 Tools
Authentic Klezmer Wedding Band 02:51 Tools
We All Gotta Be a Prostitute Sometimes 03:39 Tools
Iron Grey 03:11 Tools
Laughing Jackie the Pimp 02:15 Tools
High Ground 04:46 Tools
The Victory Party 03:47 Tools
The Way That Girl Drinks Beer 04:16 Tools
Public Relations 02:44 Tools
Song Written in a Romanian Hospital 03:50 Tools
Queen Victoria 03:14 Tools
Song to Reconcile 03:19 Tools
Drunk All Day 02:10 Tools
The Unlistenable Song 03:19 Tools
I Kind of Hate Songs With Ambiguous Lyrics 01:55 Tools
Porn Queen Girlfriend 04:30 Tools
The True Enemy 04:10 Tools
The Fiddler Is a Good Woman 04:22 Tools
And Promises to Break Before I Sleep 03:33 Tools
Rabbi Berner Finally Reveals His True Religious Agenda 05:36 Tools
Jail 02:31 Tools
Beautiful in My Eyes 04:03 Tools
Cherry Blossoms 02:18 Tools
The Traveller's Curse 03:44 Tools
In the Year 2020 03:19 Tools
Mayn Rue Platz (My Resting Place) 03:33 Tools
I.Y.M. 03:31 Tools
A Settling of Accounts 04:11 Tools
Instrumental Weep, Bride, Weep 04:31 Tools
Oh My Golem 05:01 Tools
The Violins - Al Kamanjaat 04:11 Tools
A Blimp Made of Human Skin 07:23 Tools
Clown & Bard 04:33 Tools
Suburban Family of Spies 02:59 Tools
My Dad's a Lawyer 02:52 Tools
Rent 03:47 Tools
All the Years of Trying 02:46 Tools
Light 02:46 Tools
Mayn Rue Platz 03:33 Tools
That's What Keeps the Rent Down, Baby 03:47 Tools
Shut It 05:48 Tools
Come All Ye Bold Canadians (Song of the War of 1812) 03:30 Tools
The Rich Are Going to Move to the High Ground 03:30 Tools
Rabbi Berner Finally Reveals His True Agenda 05:36 Tools
Super Subtle Folk Song 05:36 Tools
Don't Play Cards for Money with Corby Lund 03:45 Tools
The Ghost of Terry Fox (Is Looking Down On Me Tonite) 05:36 Tools
Hustle Advisory 00:47 Tools
The Violins- Al Kamanjaat 03:30 Tools
Phoney Drawl 00:47 Tools
I Am Going to Jail 02:31 Tools
bard 03:30 Tools
Bound for Vegas (Art Bergmann) 03:45 Tools
Prairie Wind 01:14 Tools
maginot 05:36 Tools
I Don't Feel so Mad at God When I See You in Your Summer Dress 03:16 Tools
Swing a Chicken 3 Times over Your Head 00:47 Tools
Condos 03:45 Tools
Trick You 03:45 Tools
Es Brent 01:14 Tools
We Are on Our Way to Bremen 03:45 Tools
Rule Of The Road (With Apologies To Country Dick Montana) 03:45 Tools
Gino Odjick 01:14 Tools
My Heart Is A Piece of Garbage Fight Seagulls! Fight! 01:14 Tools
Ikh Krakh Tomid Arayn In Der Zelber Mashin 01:14 Tools
When Chanukah Comes to Town 03:16 Tools
When DD Gets Her Donkey, Everything Will Be Alright 03:16 Tools
Slouching Towards Bremen 00:47 Tools
Thank You, No Thank You 00:47 Tools
Grand Hotel Cosmopolis 00:47 Tools
Dance and Celebrate! 04:50 Tools
Not the Jew I Had in Mind 04:50 Tools
Dance And Celebrate 00:47 Tools
That's What Keeps the Rent Down Baby 03:45 Tools
Intro 01:14 Tools
Happy Rabbi Birthday 04:50 Tools
Olympic Song 01:14 Tools
Vilne 00:47 Tools
And Promises to Break Before I 01:14 Tools
Intro (Oslo by accident) 00:47 Tools
How Come You're So Fucked and Nothing Seems to Be Wrong 00:47 Tools
The Violins - Al Kamanjat 00:47 Tools
The Drummer Requests 00:47 Tools
Song Written in a Romanian Hos 00:47 Tools
Zog Nit Keyn Mol (Partisan Song) 00:47 Tools
Daloy Politsey 03:16 Tools
The Dead Children Were Worth It 00:47 Tools
What Kind of Bear Am I 00:47 Tools
Oh You Survivalists 00:47 Tools
Why Don't We Just Take the Billionaires' Money Away? 00:47 Tools
Ven Kimsti? 00:47 Tools
In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine) 04:02 Tools
End of set 1 (Go and pee) 04:02 Tools
When DD Gets Her Donkey Everything Will Be Alright 03:47 Tools
Letter From An Occupant (Carl Newman) 04:50 Tools
Iron Gray 04:50 Tools
Bound for Vegas 03:02 Tools
Intro (We're in Norway now) 04:50 Tools
Official Theme Song for the 2010 Vancouver / Whistler Olympic Games (The Dead Children Were Worth It!) 03:02 Tools
Would You Hide Me 03:02 Tools
Henry and Jason (Carmaig de Forest) 04:50 Tools
Weep Bride Weep, Instrumental 04:50 Tools
Promises to break before I sleep 04:50 Tools
Would You Hide Me? 04:50 Tools
cards with corby 04:50 Tools
The Dead Children Were Worth It! 04:50 Tools
Hustle Advisory Canada 150 Remix (By Socalled) 04:50 Tools
What Kind of Bear Am I? 04:50 Tools
Letter from an Occupant 04:50 Tools
Keep it light enough to travel 04:50 Tools
Intro (Soliciting drinks) 03:02 Tools
Official Theme Song for the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Games (The Dead Children Were Worth It!) 03:02 Tools
Why Don't We Just Take the Billionaire's Money Away? 03:02 Tools
Intro (Let's have a sing-a-long!) 03:02 Tools
Henry and Jason 04:01 Tools
In Spite of Ourselves 04:02 Tools
That's What Keeps The Rent Down 03:47 Tools
01 Whiskey Rabbi 03:47 Tools
02 Lucky God Damn Jew 03:47 Tools
Official Theme Song For the 2010 Vancouver Whistler Olympic Games (The Dead Children Were Worth It!) 03:02 Tools
Thank You No Thank You 03:02 Tools
Rabbi Berner Finally Reveals His True Religous Agenda 03:02 Tools
Weep Bride Weep 03:02 Tools
Come All Ye Bold Canadians 03:02 Tools
Weep, Bride, Weep (instrumental) 03:02 Tools
volcano 03:02 Tools
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Geoff Berner (born 26 November 1971) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and accordionist. Predominantly a composer and performer of klezmer music, having proclaimed himself the "Avenging Angel of Klezmer", Berner's darkly humorous, insightful and satirical lyrics, as well as his cabaret live act, have gained him considerable underground acclaim and popularity throughout the world. He is often accompanied by Diona Davies on violin and Wayne Adams on drums. Frequent collaborators include Dan bern, Carolyn Mark, and The Corb Lund Band. Born Geoffrey Berner in Vancouver, British Columbia, his early years had him learning the piano; Berner picked up the accordion after being asked why he did not play it at a party. His musical career began as lead vocalist and accordionist for eclectic punk band Terror of Tiny Town, who were active throughout most of the '90s. The band eventually faced economical troubles and ultimately disbanded after the release of two studio albums. In early 2000, had been deported to Norway, where he was now regularly performing, where he witnessed one of the earliest known live performances by Kaizers Orchestra, an alternative rock band with whom he would collaborate years later. Upon his return to his homeland, Berner's began his career as a solo artist, his first release being an EP, Light Enough to Travel, released on the Sudden Death Records label in 2000. It featured two songs written for Terror of Tiny Town. Playing small venues in the general British Columbia area, Berner quickly gained a reputation for insightful humor and satirical lyrics. Furthermore, his song "Light Enough to Travel" became a hit single for fellow Canadian act, The Be Good Tanyas. We Shall Not Flag or Fail, We Shall Go On to the End, was released on the Black Hen label in 2003; this was to be both his first studio album as well as the only one featuring his then-current sound, which was more generally folk punk. In 2004, Berner's musical direction would change dramatically; Berner became enamored of klezmer, the traditional music style of his Jewish faith. During a journey to Romania, where he nearly died from alcohol poisoning, Berner learned from the old masters of the klezmer style and shifted the focus of his music towards klezmer, seeking to "drag klezmer music, kicking and screaming, back into the bars." Subsequently, violinist Diona Davies and drummer Wayne Adams, who had traveled with him to Romania, would accompany him sporadically on tour as a klezmer backing band. In 2004 was released the double live album Live in Oslo, which was recorded at Mir, a small venue in Oslo, Norway of which Berner had grown fond during his stay in the country. The album featured several of his newly written klezmer songs alongside his older material. In 2005, Berner released the first album in a trilogy of klezmer-themed albums, Whiskey Rabbi. The same year, he was hired as a support act for Kaizers Orchestra, whose nationwide fame in Norway would further his own popularity. A recording of one of his performances as a support act was included on Kaizers Orchestra's live DVD Viva La Vega, and he was also featured in the band's autobiographical book, Kontroll på kontinentet. The second album of the trilogy, The Wedding Dance of the Widow Bride was released in 2007. During the same year, he released a humorous instructional booklet entitled How to Be An Accordion Player; rather than being an introduction on how to play the instrument, the book deals chiefly with how to "be" an accordion player using various illustrative anecdotes. In early 2008, Berner released a song which he joked that the committee for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games had hired him to write as the event's official theme song. The lyrics to the song, "Official Theme Song for the 2010 Vancouver / Whistler Olympic Games (The Dead Children Were Worth It!)" asserts that the government of British Columbia closed a provincial coroner's office which investigated the deaths of children to help pay for the Olympics. Later the same year he attracted controversy at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, when he made a joke at the expense of the festival's sponsor, Volkswagen, implying their connection to Nazi Germany. The third and final installment of the klezmer trilogy was Klezmer Mongrels, which was released in 2009. Berner's fifth studio album, Victory Party, was released in 2011. The album's sound diverges from the traditional klezmer sound of his klezmer trilogy of albums, experimenting with many different instruments and genres to augment his sound, ranging from electronic dance to Eastern European punk. Berner's next project is an album of artists, among them Kaizers Orchestra, Carolyn Mark, and Rae Spoon, covering Berner's songs, to accompany/promote his upcoming novel Festival Man. The album has seen successful crowd-funding, and is to be expected in October 2013. Throughout his musical career, Berner has been a performer of cover songs. His catalog includes cover versions of songs by John Prine, Leonard Cohen and Slutarded, among others. For the duration of most of his career, Berner covered songs by American ukulele singer-songwriter Carmaig de Forest. Recently, Berner's focus has shifted to Kris Demeanor; a cover of a Demeanor composition, "One Shoe", was recorded for his fourth studio album. Berner has himself been the subject of cover versions by artists such as Billy Bragg, David Taylor, and The Plaintiffs. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.