Vandaveer
VANDAVEER is the alt-folk song-singing/record making/globetrotting project … Read Full Bio ↴VANDAVEER is the alt-folk song-singing/record making/globetrotting project penned and put forth by Washington DC-by-way-of-Kentucky tunesmith Mark Charles Heidinger.

Vandaveer’s debut album, Grace & Speed, a mostly live, stripped down affair, swiftly entered this great big dusty world in the spring of 2007. The press responded heartily, with The Washington Post saying Vandaveer “revives the earnestness of the pre-psychedelic 60’s,” and XM Cafe calling him “this generation’s Nick Drake.”

Touring continually on both sides of the Atlantic ever since, Vandaveer has played 250+ shows, sharing stages with a host of humbling artists including Bon Iver, Vetiver, Alela Diane, Alejandro Escovedo, Vashti Bunyan, Bill Callahan, Fleet Foxes, and the like. In addition to said Vandaveering, Mark Charles has been known to fraternize and conspire with other music-making hooligans, primarily as a bassist for fellow DCers These United States.

Vandaveer’s sophomore effort, Divide & Conquer, touches upon similar themes found in its elder sibling, winding timeworn themes of love & death, malice & goodwill, sin & perseverance into (mostly) four-minute vignettes. To see D&C through, Vandaveer enlisted the able assistance of longtime collaborator and producer Duane Lundy, brothers-in-arms/These United States bandmates Robby Cosenza and Justin Craig, and most notably, his fair sister Rose Guerin, supplying the loveliest harmonies this side of Eden. A decidedly more produced venture, D&C offers up a flourishing chamber folk companion to its bedroomy lo-fi folk/pop predecessor.

Released in France in April 2009 on AlterK/Discograph, Divide & Conquer was hailed by Rolling Stone as “jarring new folk”. The US release of Divide & Conquer is August 25th, 2009, on Supply And Demand Music.
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Vandaveer Lyrics


A Mighty Leviathan Of Old I found that I find the things that you find…
As a Matter of Fact Loose cannons fired at will... Aim at anything dear to get…
Beat, Beat, My Heart I wanna live in a crooked house All bent to hell,…
Before The Great War You were born before the Great War Born again when you…
Beverly Cleary's 115th Dream Well, Ramona forever seems like Such a very long time But…
Concerning Past & Future Conquests Cherry blossoms dancing in the wind Whistling a tune same ke…
Dig Down Deep Dig down deep don't fold For the faintest wind might blow …
Fistful Of Swoon the stench of sulfur climbing up the drain open up your ches…
Grace & Speed I want a shoebox big enough to fill with stars So…
however many takes it takes Go swimming in the deep end I find out where faith…
Marianne You've Done It Now Oh Marianne, you went and lost your head Outside the gates,…
Omie Wise Oh, listen to my story, I'll tell you no lies, How…
Out Past the Moat I got my guns, I got them both Now is good…



Pick Up The Pace How many times have you opened your eyes, Afraid what you'll…
Pretty Polly Oh Polly, dear Polly, come, go along with me Polly, pretty…
Resurrection Mary I wanna meet resurrection Mary Stand before God, speak in t…
Spite I once knew a man who learned such a thing Cut…
The Banks of the Ohio Come my love, let's take a walk Just a little, ways…
The Great Gray Oh, death is here... Yes, death is here... Oh, death is here…
The Man in Me The man in me will do nearly any task And as…
The Murder of the Lawson Family It was on last Christmas Evening A snow was on the…
The Nature Of Our Kind It was half-past can't say when, Been to Hell and back…
The Railroad Boy She went upstairs to make her bed And not a word…
The Streets Is Full of Creeps Harold walked the streets nonstop Routine is the life for an…
The Waking Hour Last night we died a fiery death... You took a stray…
The Wild Mercury Ancient astronauts downtown at the arcade Running high score…


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