Dan Israel keeps chugging along, this video “Lonely Too” is a song on his 13th studio album which is called Dan. Steve Cohen, a well known local photographer/videographer who shot and edited the video said this song reminded him of The Traveling Wilburys and that is immediately what I thought of when watching the video. Somewhere between Bob Dylan and Tom Petty, Israel creates his own voice and has carved out a nice niche for himself locally. While he might not attract too many listeners on the younger end of the spectrum, his catchy songs are bound to stick in your head for hours.
From his press release:
In December 2015, veteran Twin Cities singer-songwriter Dan Israel released his 13th studio album of original material, simply titled “Dan.” Since its release, “Dan” has garnered rave reviews around Minnesota, as well as nationally and internationally, and has perhaps been the most well-received record of Israel’s prolific and storied career. The album’s first two singles, “Be With Me” and “Winter is Coming,” along with the “insanely catchy” (as Ross Raihala of the St. Paul Pioneer Press put it) “You Don’t Love Me Anymore,” also garnered extensive radio airplay, and the striking videos for the first two singles helped to raise the profile of the latest addition to Israel’s impressive discography.
Now comes the third single and video from “Dan”, “Lonely Too,” and it’s a catchy one. Shot on location (in both summer and winter) at the cascading Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis and Memphis, Tennessee by renowned Twin Cities music photographer/videographer Steven Cohen (known for his work with the Jayhawks, Replacements, and Honeydogs, among others), “Lonely Too” carries with it an “ah ah ah” earworm that may just lodge itself into the listening public’s collective consciousness.
But “Lonely Too” is more than just a melodic hook that won’t go away; it’s also one of Israel’s strongest recent tunes lyrically, finding him striking out on his own, post-divorce, and embracing life and a positive outlook for the future, reaching out for support rather than withdrawing into isolation and becoming embittered. On the song’s final verse, Israel concludes, “and so it goes, forever and on, here’s to the loved ones, the ones here and gone, as for myself, you know I haven’t a clue, but if you feel lonely, well I’m lonely too.”