Year : 2016
Style : Blues Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 125 mb
Bio:
Guitarist – “Solid, no-bullshit blues-rock, this has tones greasier than a KFC bucket with hard-assed riffing & heartfelt soloing” Mojo Magazine - “His most mature performance yet. The firestorm of guitar is carefully contoured from wistful to impassioned” Joe Bonamassa – “A fantastic guitar player… able to take a Fender Stratocaster and really make it sing…” Riding high on the European blues scene for over a decade, yet still only 32, Danny has carved a name for himself the old-fashioned way having played over 2000 club and festival shows to his many fans around the world.Danny was born in Hertfordshire England in July 1980. First hailed as a ‘young guitar prodigy’ he began playing guitar aged 15, turning professional just three years later, and in the last decade has paid his dues clocking up endless miles of traveling and approximately two thousand shows in many countries around the world. After a decade of hard toil he now gets the recognition he so well deserves, being acknowledged by those in the business as one of the cream of the crop of this generation of blues artists, ably backed by his rhythm section of his father Ken on bass and Trevor Barr on drums.In a career already littered with highlights including many sold out club tours across Europe and numerous major festival appearances that have seen the power trio perform on the same bill as such names as Joe Cocker, Carlos Santana, Buddy Guy and Peter Green to mention a few; Danny and his band have steadily carved a huge and loyal fan base around the world.So far the band have released eight internationally acclaimed CDs, in 2007 they signed with Rounder Records and released three highly successful albums with this Label all of which topped the iTunes and Amazon blues charts in several countries. In 2009 Danny signed a licensing deal with Virgin/EMI Asia and a track from their 2007 release, ‘Live’, was included on a compilation CD entitled ”The Best Blues Album In The World Ever”. Danny was featured alongside many giants of Blues, including Johnny Winter, Gary Moore, Albert Collins and ZZ Top.February 2010 saw the release of the bands critically acclaimed studio album “Just As I Am’, hitting Blues charts all across the continent and receiving glowing reviews from the international music press. The album caught the ear of German based label Jazzhaus records leading Danny to ink a deal with the dynamic new label.The highly anticipated live DVD/CD “Night Life” was released in March 2012. Recorded in The Netherlands it captures the band doing what they do best, “Bryant has the kind of magic fingers that ensure the long solo sections on this live disc keep you teetering on the edge of your seat… Thrilling.” Classic Rock Mag...Following the success of “Night Life” has lead Danny to sign a further two album deal with Jazzhaus Records and 2013 will see the release of the bands 7th studio album ‘Hurricane’ in spring 2013.
Album:
British guitar slinger Danny Bryant wanted to return to his roots and an appreciation of his blues influences, by paying homage, as he puts it “to all the different influences and flavors of this wonderful music that I have loved for many years.” With that goal in mind, Danny was quite successful with his latest release, Blood Money. That success includes drafting two guitar legends to guest with him.With some swirling keyboards, Danny splits time with his long time mentor Walter Trout on vocal and guitar duties on the opening title track of “Blood Money,” and this track lays a clear foundation for what you are going to get for the rest of the album, a perfect combination of blues and rock. This transitions into the harder edged blues of “Master Plan” with its rolling rhythm that carries the song along while Danny dips heavily into the Wah-Wah pedal. “Slow Suicide” gets introspective as we blend some electric and acoustic guitar work on this slow blues and are treated two excellent solos.Danny pays tribute to a couple of seminal artists with a few tracks on here starting with the soulful blues of “Unchained.” A funky starting riff to “Unchained” is unfortunately wasted when it’s never picked up again in the rest of the song. This transitions into an organ filled instrumental ala Albert Collins. The rock comes to the forefront with the ZZ Top like sound of “Sugar Sweet.” Things start out funky for “Fool’s Game” and power chord rock driven sections battle it out back and forth throughout the song. “Holding All The Cards” is clearly a boogie in the style of Jimmy Reed with percussive piano throughout it.Things really get interesting though when Danny’s second guest steps up to the amp. “Just Won’t Burn” features Bernie Marsden and is dripping in that classic arena rock sound and just when you think it’s too much, a little piano line breaks it up. It’s just slow enough to teeter on the edge of being a ballad without crossing the line at that point, but it builds and builds as Bernie and Danny lay on the guitars. Speaking of ballads though, the album closes it out with the piano laden “Sara Jane” as he laments a lost love.Blood Money delivers on Danny’s desire “to make this album ever since I began my musical journey 20 years ago as a 15 year old boy who fell in love with his parent’s record collection.” It is a great way to start out the New Year.
Line-Up:
Danny Bryant - Guitar, Vocals
Alex Phillips - Bass
Dave Raeburn - Drums
Tracklist:
01. Blood Money (feat. Walter Trout) (4:59)
02. Master Plan (4:20)
03. Slow Suicide (5:50)
04. Unchained (4:28)
05. On the Rocks (3:59)
06. Sugar Sweet (4:10)
07. Fool's Game (5:08)
08. Holding All the Cards (3:52)
09. Just Wont Burn (feat. Bernie Marsden) (6:56)
10. Sara Jayne (4:55)
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