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John Danley

About Me

JOHN DANLEY is an experimental, fingerstyle guitarist who composes and performs his own blend of acoustic, instrumental music. John has developed a style of guitar playing by using a housepainter's paintbrush to add percussive sounds to the instrument while simultaneously creating colorful harmonies and distinctive melodic hooks. His exposure includes extensive airplay on syndicated radio stations focusing on folk, new age, acoustic, jazz, blues and world music. John Danley is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Public Radio International's To The Best of Our Knowledge, a performing arts entertainer and composer of music for film and television (including TBS soundtracks for cable). He has performed at The Kennedy Center, college universities, festivals, art galleries, workshops, the Healdsburg Guitar Festival, and has shared the stage with such artists as David Gray, Iris DeMent, Gove Scrivenor, Reese Wynans, Cheryl Wheeler, Peppino D'Agostino, and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.Nominations and awards include The Nashville Scene's "Best Guitar Hero" in 2002 and “best solo guitar album” Cemeteries, Missed Trains and Blue Skies and “best solo guitar song of the year” Hickory, 2004 JPFolks Music Awards. In addition, Drifting into Oblivion, John's 5th solo release, was nominated by JPFolks in 2006. Amber Dispositions represents his 7th solo release.2004 - Robert Silverstein, 20th Century Guitar "Achieves rare levels of sonic depth and reflection."2004 - Henke Te Veldius, Bridge Guitar Review, Netherlands "John Danley does no concessions to trends, his music is pure and honest and most record labels do not dare go in new musical terrain for commercial reasons."2002 - The Nashville Scene Critic's Choice "Best guitar hero"2002 - Jason Davidson, Nashville Rage "A vision of music that is startling and brilliant."

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Member Since: 5/31/2006
Band Website: www.johndanley.com
Band Members: John Danley
Influences: Richard P. Feynman
Sounds Like: A-440
Record Label: Tetrapod Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Acoustic Dimorphism (redux)

 In the 18th century Sir William Jones espoused the commonalities of descent with modification in language. These early ideas of linguistic manifestations subsequently influenced the explication of Da...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Painting and the Pleistocene § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

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Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 13:03:00 GMT

Annoyed & Repulsed

Chaucerian hucksterism via Internet scams and nouveau con artists is thriving more vigorously than endogenous retroviruses in the loosely termed music business these dayseven in the midst of an eco...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:01:00 GMT

Whites Creek Thanatology

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Posted by on Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:42:00 GMT

Multicultural Dilemma

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Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:57:00 GMT

Verisimilitude

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Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:49:00 GMT

JD's Galaxy Guide to Abysmal Gigs

In lieu of an indefinite musical moratorium and an undetermined economical offing, I thought it might be amusing to examine the recrudescence of many insufferable solo-performance situations Ive enco...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:32:00 GMT

Buster B.

It was a cheap boombox recording by Kottke that jostled an otherwise sardonic Fahey back in the late 60s and another by Buster B. Jones twenty years later that demonstrated how technology cannot inte...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:01:00 GMT

Adversomnia

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Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:53:00 GMT

In Memory

I met Lance McCollum for the first time, not too long ago, at the Healdsburg Guitar Festival in California via introduction by Robin Ralston and Todd Hallawell. It was at a convivial after-party where...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:26:00 GMT