New Album

Branches Out

By Chandler Travis

The acclaimed New England songwriter's first album in eight years.

Branches Out, Chandler's new record, is his most ambitious yet and his most tender. With seven songs co-written with longtime collaborator David Greenberger, this new release is born from a decade-long attempt to write a musical about dementia, imagination, and the fierce power of theater to hold the world at bay. The project cost years, and friendships, and more than Travis bargained for. What survived was the best writing either man had ever done.

Branches Out draws on Chandler's full range of collaborators, including the Philharmonic, the Three-O, and special guests including Patty Larkin, Zoë Lewis, and Jennifer Kimball.

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Coming July 2026

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New Singles from Branches Out
Every Letter Sent

Every Letter Sent

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Backyard Story

Backyard Story

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From the New Album

New Singles from Branches Out

Every Letter Sent

Backyard Story

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Chandler Travis
The Artist

Chandler Travis

Chandler Travis has been making people feel things they didn't expect to feel for more than fifty years, and he's not done yet.

A Cape Cod institution with a devoted following stretching from Boston to Tokyo to Stockholm, Travis is a songwriter of rare melodic invention: warm, playful, precise, and impossible to file under anything but his own name. He spent decades opening for George Carlin, including at Carnegie Hall, and wrote the theme for The George Carlin Show. His early duo Travis Shook and the Club Wow appeared on the Tonight Show, the Midnight Special, and the Dick Cavett Show. He has released albums on Rounder and Demon Records and currently performs with the Chandler Travis Philharmonic, the Three-O, and the Invincible Casuals, among other configurations and for decades led and toured internationally with the Incredible Casuals.

That's some resume. It's also just the beginning of a long, singular story.

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Live & In Person

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Keep up to date on Chandler's live performances, either solo, or with one of his many collaborators.

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What the Press Is Saying

Some Reviews...

“
...not just my favorite show of the year, quite possibly my favorite concert of all time.
— WBCR, on Chandler Travis Philharmonic live
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Chandler Travis is a true original — a songwriter and bandleader operating completely outside the mainstream, on his own joyful terms.
— Scott Schinder, Time Out New York
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An exuberant, freewheeling live performance that defies easy categorization.
— Scott McLennan, The Boston Globe
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What really ropes you in is the awesomely courageous and gentle way Travis explores human emotion. All his many love songs are at the heart of it all meditations on this theme.
— Joel Patterson, Nippertown (Albany, NY)
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Chandler Travis likes to mess with people. Perhaps paradoxically, it is that very willingness to rebel and challenge that is perhaps a universal need.
— Michael Friedman, Ph.D., Psychology Today
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Dixieland romps, twisted Mardi Gras marches, sweaty 60's rock, smoky torch songs, and occasional novelties that sound somewhere between Randy Newman and They Might Be Giants
— Sam Hurwitt, San Francisco Express