Dornock Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 A man, a guitar and a bagful of the best songs you’ll hear today, that’s the simple truth about Danny Schmidt. Named to the Chicago Tribune's 50 Most Significant Songwriters in the Last 50Years, Austin, TX-based singer/songwriter Schmidt has been rapidly ascending from underground cult hero to being widely recognized as an artist of generational significance. With lyrical depth drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, and Dave Carter, Danny is considered a pre-eminent writer, an artist whose earthy poetry manages to somehow conjure magic from the mundane, leading Sing Out Magazine to tag him "Perhaps the best new songwriter we've heard in the last 15 years." Danny's show at The Greystones this Sunday 10th July is the final date of his UK tour and promises to be an exceptional evening. Performing solo almost exclusively, armed with just his voice, his words, and his acoustic guitar, Danny's an authentic timeless troubadour, one man sharing his truth in the form of songs, unadorned and intimate. The understated effect can be startlingly powerful. As songwriter Jeffrey Foucault put it: "Everything about the man is gentle, except for his capacity for insight, which is crushing." You can also hear Danny interviewed on the Allan Watkiss show (Your Country), Radio Sheffield at 4.00 p.m. on Sunday ahead of the gig. After garnering unanimous critical praise for his self-released Parables & Primes album in 2005, Danny's follow up release, Little Grey Sheep in 2007 began an unbroken streak of albums that have charted at Number 1 on the Folk Radio Charts, internationally. After also winning the prestigeous Kerrville New Folk award in 2007, Danny won the notice of venerable Americana roots label, Red House Records, who began releasing his albums in 2009, starting with the critically acclaimed album, Instead The Forest Rose To Sing, thus exposing a much broader audience to Danny's music, alongside such notable artists as Greg Brown, Eliza Gilkyson, Jorma Kaukonen, and John Gorka. Schmidt is now touring his latest album, Man of Many Moons, perhaps his best to date and his show at The Greystones is not to be missed... “Danny Schmidt's album Man Of Many Moons shows off wonderful melodic tunes, with deft and sharp lyrics. He does a fine cover version of Bob Dylan's Buckets Of Rain, but the heart of the album is the clever and witty song Almost Round The World about the madness of the modern information age. It's all beguiling and rather charming." – Daily Telegraph "There are some albums that jump right out of the speakers at you and grab you by the throat. Intensely intelligent, this is sensitive songwriting at its finest. In his use of parable and allegory, there are inevitable comparisons with Cohen and Dylan, but these are songs of such quality and beauty that they more than hold their own in this exalted company." - 5 stars out of 5, Maverick Magazine UK "There’s a quality - an easygoing, lyrical storytelling manner that eschews stridency or pretension - that all folksingers strive for and few attain. But Danny Schmidt has it in abundance. With seductive simplicity, his music demands your attention." - Jeff McCord, Texas Monthly "In today's underground folk world, Danny Schmidt is spoken of in reverent tones, drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen, with a poetry that breathes naturally and without pretension, with results that are both attractive and intense." - Jim Caligiuri, Austin Chronicle Support for Danny comes from The Listeners. The Listeners is Emma Thorpe, on her own or with her collaborators. And she sings in cinematic detail from a small town on the North Nottinghamshire borders. Thorpe was born into music – her mother taught her to finger-pick, introducing her to the music of PJ Harvey, Sandy Denny, Susan Vega, Roy Harper and Bob Dylan along the way. Her father Kevin was well respected on the blues scene for his albums with Out Of The Blue and her aunt managed Welsh psychedelic legends Man. Despite this heritage Thorpe has shaped her own evocative sound. Sometimes wilfully naive, sometimes considered and precise - her choice of chords is particular and unusual and her finger-picking weaves a strange atmosphere – the likes of which you’d more likely find in a Lynch film or a novel by Bolano than in the sculpted folk of her inspirations. These are songs, born of tradition, alive in the present day, revealing & fragile, executed spare and sharp: Doors open 7.30 p.m. Advance discount tickets are available from The Greystones and are also available online http://www.wegottickets.com/event/118231 or http://www.seetickets.com Hope to see you there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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