Comasoft Impulsive CD

Looking through the contents of my grandfather's dresser drawer and thinking back on the December that he passed on moved me. Later that night, while wearing his watch and feverishly etching out lyrics on the inside foil of an empty pack of cigarettes, '1991' was written. I wrote 'Lovely Mother' in much the same fashion. My girlfriend's mother had just taken a downward turn and my girlfriend was devastated. It was painful to see her suffer. I wanted to write her a somber, compassionate song to show her how I felt. I knew how it should sound, but the lyrics would not come. While visiting my brother in Savannah, I explained to him how I was feeling and what I wanted to express in verse when the lyrics finally came to me. Once I came up with the lyrics, I knew the song had to be in two parts: the first expressing how I felt and the second conveying the relationship between my girlfriend and her mother. These lyrics were written in one sitting and I was less concerned with rhyme than describing a complete ...

This album starts off with a gently strummed mandolin on the opener Black As Love. Don't let this fool you as the track builds up into a full blown rocker. The idea for BARCELONA came to Danny when he was touring Spain with the band and from the opening seconds, when the Moorish style drums kick in, you can feel the influence. Danny was raised in the mountains of North Carolina where he moved from listening to the local Appalachian folk and bluegrass to the harder rock sounds of bands like Led Zeppelin. In this record he has managed to pull together all of these influences to make an astonishingly complete record. The second track Green River moves us back from Spain to a simple eulogy to his home land. The backing to this track is absolutely marvelous with Danny's trademark vintage 1967 Rickenbacker 360-12 sparkling along over fantastic Hammond B-3 played by former longtime Allman Brothers Band keyboardist, Johnny Neel. Given that the backing vocalist is one of my personal favourites, Tanya Dennis, it makes for a classic track. Next up is Hillbilly Hollywood, another of the long line of songs of disenchantment of the City of Angels and praise of the simple life back home. Straight up 12 bar country blues next with the simple My Baby Thinks I'm Great. Helping Danny out on this is long time friend Jack Pearson, who plays acoustic resonator slide guitar. Pearson is well known for his work with Steely Dan and his six tours with the Allman Brothers so you can guess that the playing is superb. A rockier track follows, The ...