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Thank You! Roll Shine Roll Baby!
Nominated for Two 2025 Boston Music Awards
Video of the Year – ‘Watch the Trees’
Americana Artist of the Year
Winners Announced December 17th at Big Night Live in Boston, MA
New Release
(Re)Watch The Trees
A suite of new material taking an intimate look at our signature song ‘Watch The Trees’
Featuring a live acoustic version of the song recorded at the legendary Q Division Studios in Boston, accompanying music video and original demo of the song recorded in 2020 at Henley Row
Eleven songs of life. A decade in the making. The debut album Roll Shine Roll out now.
“In a musical landscape that’s burdened by filler-heavy albums — all for the sake of racking up streams — Roll Shine Roll presents a roadmap where every song is worth stopping to take in the view.” — Victoria Wasylak WBUR
“getting it right, sonically and spiritually” – The Boston Herald
“An astonishing alt-country debut – Roll Shine Roll is as deep as Music From Big Pink by The Band.” – Vivascene
‘Watch the Trees’
“An alt-country masterpiece. This is cosmic country at its absolute finest.”
‘Until I Do’
“Boston alt-country and Americana band Other Brother Darryl make music in that tight harmonies, melody rich, cosmic-tinged corner of Americana.”
ABOUT
Other Brother Darryl are a seven-piece Boston-based alt-country supergroup, winners of the 2024 Boston Music Award for Country Artist of the Year. Calling their sound cosmic canyon rock, the band is made up of veteran singer-songwriters and local luminaries: Dan Nicklin (vocals, harmonica, percussion), Nate Leavitt (vocals, acoustic guitar), Dan Cederholm (drums), Chad Raleigh (multi-instrumentalist), Derek Feeney (acoustic guitar), Dave Lieb (keyboard, vocals), Jim Collins (bass, vocals), with the enduring spirit of their late brother Dave Mirabella as inspiration and guidance.
The roots of Other Brother Darryl stretch back to 2012 at Somerville’s beloved (and now defunct) club Radio, where each member crossed paths regularly with their own projects. Bonded by a shared love of big folk harmonies, the cosmic country of CSNY, The Jayhawks and Wilco, and even a wink to the TV series Newhart, the band carried on an unspoken promise: that one day they’d bring their collective vision to life.
That promise arrived with the release of their debut album Roll Shine Roll in February 2025, recorded at Nicklin’s Henley Row Studios. The eleven-song set is a meditation on resilience, loss, and brotherhood, dedicated to Mirabella, who passed suddenly in 2022. Praised as “as deep as Music from Big Pink by The Band” (Vivascene), the album has since surpassed 30,000 streams, with the single “Watch the Trees” alone passing 10,000 streams and earning rotation on Boston’s premier Americana station, WUMB.
Momentum has continued to build with each step. The band were finalists in the storied Rock & Roll Rumble, released a mini-documentary about their origins, rolled out six singles from Roll Shine Roll, including “Until I Do,” “Sometimes,” “The Ballad of Joni & Graham,” and “Watch the Trees,” which have established their reputation as torchbearers for authentic Americana and alt-country. They also launched the Stairway to Darryl video series, capturing their harmonies in an intimate stairwell setting.
Onstage, Other Brother Darryl have become fixtures in the New England scene and beyond: appearing at the New England Americana Festival, the Outlaw Music Festival (Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Wilco) at BankNH Pavilion, and the Underwater Sunshine Festival curated by Adam Duritz of Counting Crows. They’ve also shared bills with acts like Deer Tick and Will Dailey, further cementing their standing as a band that thrives both in the studio and live.
With work already underway on their second album, Other Brother Darryl remain committed to carrying their cosmic canyon rock forward — a sound born of friendship, community, and the belief that real music played by real people, for good people, still matters.
OTHER BROTHER DARRYL 