About: Danny
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Blue and (hello) lonesome,
15 Feb 2008 in News
In honor of singles awareness day, we thought we’d share a story with ya’ll: So about 3 years ago, one of the Jones Street Boys was dating this real nice girl. He went to meet her for dinner one night, and as he arrived at the restaurant, he sees that she is talking to a friend of hers. This Jones Street Boy moseys on up with a big smile on his face. “Hey” says the real nice girl to her friend, “this is…um, this is…well, uh…”. Oh yes. She forgot his name. With his head hung low he went back home, but not before picking up a bottle of bourbon. Turns out that the same day, a pair of black Jack Purcells had arrived in the mail. He went upstairs, laced up his new sneaks, opened the bottle and promptly drank himself into blackout. The next morning, he opened his eyes, contacts plastered to corneas, shoes still looking slick, and saw that there was a mic plugged in to his sad little desktop Pro Tools recording rig and a guitar on the floor. He had, apparently, written a song. Today “Hello Lonesome” was featured on the homepage of the very cool Planetary Group http://www.planetarygroup.com/. You can check it out at our Myspace page.
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Sundanced,
25 Jan 2008 in News
So, we’re pretty sure that the Sundance Film Festival might be more appropriately called The ‘hey you, are you trying to sleep? seriously? good luck, sucker’…Festival. Don’t get us wrong, the beauty of Park City, the positive vibe on Main Street, the pizza at Red Banjo, and the astonishing population of creative artists are all overwhelming. But the exponential go-go-go is downright amazing. Thank heaven for bourbon and hot chocolate.
On Wednesday, we played a show at the Sidecar Bar for the fantastic folks of the environmentally wise Green Initiative, who not only put us up in an beautiful ski chateau with incredible views of the snow dusted Rockies, but also loaned us a car so we could haul our butts and gear around throughout Park City! Later in the day, after a round of beers and some pizza-pie that rivaled the best of NYC, we headed - along with our wonderful friends Caroline and JT - to play two sets for the New York Film Commission, who threw a HUGE party at a mansion in the mountains. This house was so gigantic and luxurious that it had a basketball court in the basement, mountain scenes carved into the doors, a full bar in the basement, and no less than 3000 square feet of deck space. Needless to say, we were floored. We played two long sets and put the party to sleep around 4AM when we hopped in a van and went bleary-eyed to the airport.
It was the most delightful whirlwind we’ve every been pummeled by.
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Saturday: St. Louis,
21 Dec 2007 in News
It was a dark and stormy night. Honest. After a rowdy Chicago show we rolled into the Lou in a downpour. Because I misunderstood the sound man, we wound up spending two hours dozing on the basement couches at the cavernous Old Rock House before we got onstage for a check. On the bill with us was the fantastic St. Louis based band The Feed who are fronted by my old grade school pal Dave Grelle. Dave, who is an indisputable keyboard virtuoso, not only put together the night and played a great show with his band, he also gave JB free reign over his fire engine red Fender Rhodes piano and played some wicked melodica with us on Bill Monroe’s ‘Sittin on Top of the World’. The crowd was big, enthusiastic, attentive, friendly, and almost entirely related to me, which was nice.
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Thursday: Milwaukee,
20 Dec 2007 in Announcements& News
Back when I was an 18 year old freshman at Marquette U I saw the great Irish band Solas play Shank Hall. I was a pretty horrible mandolin player back then and could barely fake 3 chords on the guitar. So, it was pretty satisfying to ride into Milwaukee the way we did, what with a fantastically warm welcome from WMSE 91.7 station manager Tom Crawford to play in his studios and then follow it up with a fun, easy-going sound check at Shank. Our good friends David and Phylis Ravel put us up in their unbelievably cozy home and filled us with delcious chili and, well, delcious bourbon after our check and sent us to the venue quite contented. A great country act by the name of Brown Derby opened up the show with some sneaky slinky guitar playing and some fine singing. We got to play a real long set and showcase some new tunes in what was a perfect capper to a very relaxing day on tour. Plus, Walt got to smoke Winstons on stage - you can still do that in the land of Pabst and honey.
- Danny, 30 Aug 2007 in News
