Edward O’Connell is a Washington, D.C.-based songwriter, whose newest album, “Feel Some Love” was released in 2022.  It was preceded by “Vanishing Act” (2014) and “Our Little Secret” (2010), both of which bowed to kind reviews from the pop cognoscenti (MOJO:(****) “Brilliant! ”) and ended up on numerous “best-of-the-year” power pop lists.

Carrying a tunesmith torch that earned him comparisons to Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Tom Petty and Warren Zevon,  O’Connell has garnered various songwriting awards and multiple Wammie (Washington Area Music Awards) nominations.

He appears regularly in the D.C. area as a member of multiple bands including The Cooperators, The McDuffees, and The Montgomery Warlocks,  and as a featured keyboard and guitar player in various BandHouse Gigs and Newmyer Flyer productions.

O’Connell’s encyclopedic knowledge of pop music stretches back to his teenage years as a record hound and radio DJ in his native Connecticut, where he managed the Yale University radio station, WYBC-FM, and later worked at WPLR-FM, New Haven, and as a drive-time DJ on Hartford’s flagship heritage underground rock radio station, WHCN-FM.

O’Connell is a long-time member of the Songwriters’ Association of Washington and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).