Go to his site. Buy an album. This guy is unbelievable. He stopped in Nashville on his way to a convention, and my friend Sarah and I were lucky enough to catch him when we popped in for New Faces Night at The Basement.
I have seen many people play. This is the only person I have ever seen that really blew me away, using just their voice and a guitar. When he first took the stage, my thought was "Look at that little guitar - is that a kid's guitar? It doesn't look like he knows what he's doing." Boy was I wrong. Danny writes and performs with such cleverness and profoundness that the entire venue was silently enraptured for the duration of his performance. It may have been the best performance I've ever seen in my life, and since you can't compare this to The Rolling Stones (because it's a different presentation), I'm going to go ahead and say it was. Danny's songs liken to the American tradition of storytelling that I grew up with in Clarksville, Tennessee. He puts his own modern twist to the tradition of folk music, and lovers of any genre of music can find themselves relating to the words and melodies he pieces together. Truly fantastic, A++, five-star, two-thumbs up rating from me. I bought his latest album "Little Grey Sheep" I will definately keep track of this artist. He'll be huge soon, and if he isn't, shame on the world.Please check out his website, http://dannyschmidt.com.
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