Donavon Frankenreiter
Before launching a solo career as the protégé of Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter began his professional life as a surfer. Born in Southern California on December 10, 1972, he landed a sponsorship with Billabong as a young teenager and moved to Hawaii when he was 14. There, he rented a home from the parents of Jack Johnson, a fellow surfer with an untapped musical talent. The two became fast friends, learning guitar together and hanging out between trips to the beach. Music was always a hobby for Frankenreiter, who began playing guitar in a local rock band called Sunchild during his late teens, but it wasn't until 2002 that he grew confident enough to try a solo career. Meanwhile, Johnson's musical career had taken a meteoric leap, and he was starting his own Brushfire Records label. Frankenreiter reached out to his old friend, who released Frankenreiter's self-titled debut in May 2004. Johnson also made a guest appearance on the record, along with G. Love and Koool G Murder of the Eels.
For his next record, Frankenreiter broke from his mentor's label and partnered up with Lost Highway, which released 2006's Move by Yourself. An EP full of cover songs, Recycled Recipes, appeared in 2007, with the polished full-length Pass It Around following a year later. Around this time, Frankenreiter relocated to Kauai and began gravitating toward Hawaiian instruments like slack key guitar, lap steel, and ukulele. All three figured prominently on his next album, Revisited, essentially a reinterpreted version of his 2004 debut with a tropical island feel. Revisited was released in 2010, as were a second volume of the Recycled Recipes series and a fourth album of original material, Glow.
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Rollers
Devon Allman, Donavon Frankenreiter
Rock - Released by Create Records on 23 Jun 2023
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Live in Boston (Live in Boston)
G. Love & Special Sauce, Donavon Frankenreiter
Blues - Released by Ineffable Records on 15 Sep 2023
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Move By Yourself (Album Version)
Country - Released by Lost Highway Records on 1 Jan 2006
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Recycled Recipes
Rock - Released by Lost Highway Records on 6 Aug 2007
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Some Live Songs EP
Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter, G. Love
Rock - Released by G. Love on 1 Jan 2004
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Pass It Around
Rock - Released by Lost Highway Records on 30 Jun 2008
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Donavon Frankenreiter
Rock - Released by Donavon Frankenreiter on 11 May 2004
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The Abbey Road Sessions (Live At Abbey Road)
Rock - Released by Lost Highway Records on 1 Jan 2007
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Pass It Around
Rock - Released by Lost Highway Records on 30 Jun 2008
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Move By Yourself
Country - Released by Lost Highway Records on 1 Jan 2006
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Move By Yourself
Rock - Released by Lost Highway Records on 1 Jan 2006
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Move By Yourself
Rock - Released by Lost Highway Records on 1 Jan 2006
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Take Me Away
Cisco Adler, Donavon Frankenreiter
Alternative & Indie - Released by Bananabeat Records on 11 Jun 2021
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Lovely Day
Rock - Released by Lost Highway Records on 1 Jan 2009
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Beautiful
Claudia Koreck, Donavon Frankenreiter
Pop/Rock - Released by Ariola on 18 May 2010
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What'cha Know About
Rock - Released by Donavon Frankenreiter on 1 Jan 2005
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Baby it's cold outside
Room Eleven, Donavon Frankenreiter
Pop - Released by Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV on 1 Jan 2008
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Your Heart (International Version)
Pop - Released by Lost Highway Records on 1 Jan 2008
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Revisited
Rock - Released by Liquid Tambourine Records, Inc. on 15 Jun 2010
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Revisited 2
Rock - Released by Liquid Tambourine Records, Inc. on 26 Apr 2019
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