This Is Dynamite CD

If there is a reason to consider Dan Janisch's music it might be to derail the ever present idea that 'A' type of music is for 'A' type of person and so on, split down the line. Whether one be a rocker, a hip hopper, a punker, an americana-er, a hippie, a square, a 15 year old, a 60 year old, a cop, a robber, rich or poor, etc. Sometimes it might be good to shove some of that B#*LS*#T out of the way and connect differently; see we're all people. Dan Janisch's music is a fine place to do that; it's music intended for all the people somehow."If John Steinbeck had written music, he'd have written music like Dan Janisch..." - Freight Train Boogie"...impossible to fit into a particular stylistic niche, and he's certainly not just another aging sidewalk performer..."- All Music Guide "He gives broken hearts some lovely places to hide..."- LA Weekly Based in the picturesquely ramshackle seaside town of Venice, CA, singer/songwriter Dan Janisch sounds like the sort of folkie who has spent more than a few hours on the city's busker-heavy piers. But the incorporation of pop, blues, country and unidentifiable other elements in Janisch's primarily acoustic songs is impossible to fit into a particular stylistic niche, and he's certainly not just another aging sidewalk performer: many of the nine songs on Medicine Man are genuinely interesting takes on a long and storied folk-rock tradition. Despite the somewhat hackneyed lyrics, the opening title track is a rollicking, catchy tune powered by a terrific slide-guitar ...