13 Facts About Dan Bern

Dan Bern is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, novelist, and painter.

Dan Bern's music has been compared to that of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Ochs and Elvis Costello.

Dan Bern is a prolific composer, having written over one thousand songs.

Dan Bern wrote the novel Quitting Science under the pen name Cunliffe Merriwether and wrote the preface under his own name.

Dan Bern has toured with Ani DiFranco, The Who, and Roger Daltrey.

Dan Bern learned to play cello at age six, and the guitar at 14 or 16, after he heard his first Bob Dylan songs.

In 2004, Dan Bern published the novel Quitting Science and, in 2012, Cleaver the Gronk under the pen name Cunliffe Merriwether.

In 2009,2010, and 2012, Dan Bern played with Common Rotation from Los Angeles, California which consists of vocals, guitar, banjo, trumpet, saxophone, and other instruments.

Dan Bern wrote "Swing Set," a duet with Emmylou Harris, for the off Broadway production of Family Week, and wrote the title song for Demme's documentary Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains.

In 2012, Dan Bern released two studio recordings of American roots music: Drifter, featuring a duet with Emmylou Harris, and Doubleheader, an 18-song tribute to baseball culled from close to 30 years of songwriting and recorded at Bob Weir's TRI Studios in Marin County.

Dan Bern has created two podcasts: 10,000 Crappy Songs: A Musical Detective Story, a fictional radio drama featuring original music from Dan Bern; and Hunkered in the Bunker, a series of free-form shows produced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dan Bern produces an internet radio station, Radio Free Bernsteinn.

In 2020, Dan Bern created the song "Never-To-Be-Forgotten Kinda Year" to soundtrack Reddit's 2020 "Year in Review" video.