Cedar & Boyer is the musical home of Justin Landis. With roots in the singer-songwriter tradition, their sound is a shifting combination of instruments and arrangements. The songs are melodically earnest and serve as the anchor for exploration.
Justin has been writing, recording, and performing music for nearly 4 decades. His approach to music vacillates from straight-ahead folk, to loop-driven soundscapes. Justin is also a serial collaborator and multi-instrumentalist who has shared the stage in a variety of capacities with Gregory Alan Isakov, Shook Twins, John Craigie, Jenny Anne Mannan, Chris Staples, Marshall McLean and many more.
Original cover art is pen and water color by Ani Landis.
New Single, Telephone Beautiful, is out now.
Telephone Beautiful was written in the wake of a tour we did in 2012, processing some of the interpersonal dynamics that emerged. Some relationships were strengthened; some dissolved. It is in an attempt to understand the perspective of the aggrieved party.
This tour is still one of my fondest memories despite the relational fallout.
-Justin
