Double Barrel Darrel is a four piece post alt.-country rock band that hails from Goshen Indiana, the manufacturing wasteland east of Chicago, east of South Bend, west of Detroit, west of Fort Wayne, a geography marked by Amish youth desperate to look cool and trailer factory rats clinging to their mullets and mustaches. DBD has been playing in the northern Indiana/southern Michigan area for three years, more recently making headway in the Indy and Bloomington region, where it is reknown for its off stage latent homosexual antics (inspite of the fact that all four members are heteros - 3 are married, and the other guy likes their wives), and a workman-like dedication to its own original music.

DBD is influenced most obvioulsy by Wilco, U2, Neil Young, and Uncle Tupelo, but there are strong elements of Widespread Panic, Gillian Welch, JJ Cale, The Dustbowl Cars, and some Canadian band from Winnipeg, and even a few punches from the Pixies, The Clash, Al Green, Midnight Oil and Chango Farias Gomez. Gerber's guitar work is deft, but sublte, infusing his play with suggestion and evocation to make a statement rather than out and out flash and fancy. He plays over the tight and surprising three peice rhythm section of Kingsley, Kaufman and Rempel, each of whom is completely capabale of operating independently, and occassionally will to drive a song and steer it in just the right path. Lyrics are integral to DBD's music, introspective without being corny, political without sarcasm, equal parts sacriligious and reverent. Vocal harmonies have become a trademark for DBD, as especially performed on Barbed Wire, Matfield Green and Do I. DBD has released two self-produced albums, Nashville Made in China (2003) and Geophagy (2004),with Larry Devincent - availabel on CDBaby.com - and will record again in the fall of 2005.

DBD is the result of 12 years of on again off again dedication to making it work. Nate Mateer Rempel, drums, Phil Kaufman, bass, and Aaron Sawatsky Kingsley, guitars and vocals, have been playing together under various names since high school in the early 90's. Andy Gerber, electric guitar and vocals, joined up at Goshen College in the mid 90's. The band has made its home, in three basements, two garages, one brown stone apartment, one women's locker room, one arts and crafts mansion, three humble houses, and is poised to move into its first real studio - built inside a garage. All four members grew up Mennonite, maintain strong ties to Mennonites, and believe, somewhere deep inside their jaded and cynical hearts that the church, and people of all persuasions, can make peace and love a reality, that redemption is not a quaint and casual word, but a necessity for bare human survival. This is the underlying theme in their brand of 21st century, industrial belt rock and roll.