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Now for his second appearance on the MKULTRASOUND Podcast an old friend of host / producer AZ, Pete Berwick has a very new album of music produced by Charlie Bonnet 3 and a just published biography about the BOYZZ.
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Pete Berwick is a Renaissance man; a professional actor and consummate entertainer with over forty years experience in live performance, film, television, music production, comedy, character acting and improvisation. He has also written four novels, recorded and produced six albums of critically-acclaimed music, and is an amateur boxer. He resided and was a signed recording artist in Nashville, Tennessee in the early 90s and has been credited for being an early pioneer of the musical genre called “Cowpunk.”
Over twenty of his songs have been featured in movies and television. Berwick travelled the nation for decades as a solo musical artist, and with his various bands, while in-between tours working in film and television. Berwick’s very first work in a major television production was in 1993 in HBO’s “Against the Wall,” directed by the legendary John Frankenheimer, in an intense murder scene with Samuel L. Jackson.
Since then, he has appeared in dozens of television programs and films, in music videos and at thousands of venues and stages as an actor, stand-up comedian, a character impersonator, a musical artist, and even as a professional clown, entertaining tens of thousands of kids at festivals, schools, and private events.
For two years he seamlessly performed the role of Johnny Cash in the tribute band Folsom, and also performed hundreds of times throughout the years at various functions and events as Elvis. In 2017, Berwick appeared on the popular television program “America’s Got Talent” as a character he created, his alter-ego, cornball stand-up comic Toni Baloni. Pete Berwick is currently in high demand as an actor in the Chicago area, balancing film, theater, and occasional television work, while also travelling coast to coast, and wherever else the acting work takes him.
“The Damage Is Done” reminds me of Steve Earle when he worked with the Supersuckers, but louder. Recorded in Nashville, I’m reminded of the old Kris Kristofferson song, “To Beat the Devil,” about a down-on-his-luck Nashville songwriter who drinks the Devil’s beer and steals his song. Well in Pete’s case, he steals the Devil’s whiskey, his song, and then kicks his ass.
—Mustard Finnegan, Shite ‘n’ Onions
“Pete Berwick is the best thing to happen to cowpunk since Johnny Cash.”
—Middle Tennessee Music Magazine
“Pete Berwick is lesser known, but just as equally important an artist as Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle.”
—Diffuser FM and New Noise Magazine
“A brilliant songwriter.”
—Blurt Magazine
“Berwick’s songwriting goes straight to the heart.”
—WXRT Radio, Chicago
“Berwick’s music breaks all molds.”
—Indie Spotlight Live
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The Damage Is Done
The seventh album by cowpunk pioneer Pete Berwick
Shotgun Records/Berwick Productions International
Produced by Charlie Bonnet lll
Engineered and mixed by Dave Summers
Recorded at Studio D, Tullahoma, Tennessee
All songs written by Pete Berwick except “Haunted Heart,” written by Charlie Bonnet lll