Usual musical cohorts; Neil 'Tiny' Segrott - Bass, studio wizardry, Buddha-like wisdom; Chris Conway - Keyboards, long-time duo partner; Carl 'Fanny' Dawson - Guitar, cover art, Monkey Love; Adele McMahon - Violin, pure spirit: Mr Lee, Gav and Uncle Peter - drums; Neil Rabjohn - cajon; Tall Andy - bass and tallness.
Influences
Early; The Goodies, The Wombles, Elvis, The Bee Gees.
Teenage; Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Lindisfarne, Jethro Tull, Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Planxty, Bothy Band.
Later; Mike Scott and The Waterboys, The Sisters Of Mercy, Johnny
Cash, Hank Williams, Maria McKee, Nick Drake.
Recent; Jackie Leven, Gram Parsons, Jeff Buckley, Ben Harper, Gillian Welch, Jim White.
Other influences; Love and Loss, Monkeys and Horses, The North Devon Coast, CrazyHorse, Kabir, Robert Bly, Anthony De Mello, Rumi, Being An Idiot.
Sounds Like
Bits of The Waterboys, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Ben
Harper, Jim White.
DAN'S NEW CD, TURN THE STARS UPSIDE DOWN IS RELEASED APRIL 5TH ON MUSICIAN RECORDS. FOR MORE INFO OR TO BUY GO TO WWW.danbritton.co.uk
Dan Britton is a dynamic singer-songwriter with an amazing power in live performance.
He blends US West Coast, hints of celtic and country, roots and rock into his own unique style.
Go and see Dan perform solo, with his band, in duo with Chris Conway or with the traditional Irish band Govannen, you'll come out a fan.
He has played guitar for Jackie Leven, Bob Cheevers and Cathy Lesurf ('The best guitarist I've worked with since Simon Nicol.') He has released several nationally acclaimed albums.
A passionate performer, his powerful voice and stage presence immediately attracts attention.
Other projects include adding lead vocals to the first Katy Lied album, being produced by Nigel Stonier and featuring ex members of The Waterboys, Al Perkins & Thea Gilmore and playing UK autumn dates with Nashville legend, Bob Cheevers.
CD's include;
'Journey To Love' - 2003 - Dan solo - A New Day Records:
'Riding The Red White And Black Horses' - 1998 - solo - Rideout Records:
'Just Be Real' - 2001- duo cd with Chris Conway - A New Day Records:
'Chris Conway And Dan Britton Live' -2004- Oblong Records:
'The Water Is Wide' - 2006 - With Govannen - Oblong Records:
'The Kansas City Faggots...Knock One Off In Memphis' - with country band The Kansas City Faggots (no label - no surprise!)
Dan also appears on cd's by Jackie Leven, Cathy Lesurf, David Wyatt, Andy Griffiths, Dave Kirk + others.
This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
Dan - hope you're well. Still think back to the great acoustic set you did on my stage at Weyfest in 2007. Was listening to Bob Harris on radio 2 thinking you were still in Katy Lied. Good wishes for the continuing solo career. A recent highlight for me was doing a support for Albert Lee. I'm playing on the Sunday night of Weyfest so might catch up with you and Chris.
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
Hey Dannyboy...I may tend to agree with ya about the iconic-ness of that pic. Good idea. None of the skull images REALLY kill me but this pic does...maybe degrade it and make it look reeeaaalll old???
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well we,ve eventually got down to a c.d mate,needs polishing up a bit,but never the less it,s a start . or though it,s live you get the atmosphere of the band and the fun we had doing it big bad bob on thr bass
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