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please Dial it back after this episode. You're
gonna love hearing from this rising talent in
the Chicago musical theater scene Today, I am
ecstatic Truly, to introduce to you award -winning
Boston blues musician, Danielle Moralia. Danielle
won the 2021 New England Music Award for Blues
Act of the Year and the 2019 Award for Female
Performer of the Year. Lauren Daly of the Boston
Globe wrote, Straddling the line where folk roots
meets rock blues, Moralia has a voice that can
go from a raspy come hither purr. to an Etta
James -esque powerhouse belt, although she may
be best known for her lead thumb, a heavy thumping
strike on her Gibson that's backdrop percussion
in itself. As a lyricist, Danielle will satirize
societal issues and she's not afraid to call
out personas, people that all of us know too
well. And she writes other songs that celebrate
love and longing, just some really great stuff.
Her most recent solo record, Bright Shining Stars,
released by VizTone, debuted at number 15 on
Billboard's Top US Blues Albums. It features
11 tracks, including covers of Janis Joplin's
Turtle Blues, Keb Moe's You Can Love Yourself,
and two Bob Dylan cuts, Meet Me in the Morning,
and you're gonna make me lonesome when you go.
We dive into the music on Bright Shining Stars
as well as cuts from her previous solo records,
Glory Junkies, Box of Troubles, and her 2005
debut, Nothing Romantic. Danielle also reveals
later in the episode her favorite song that she's
ever written. Now, she also fronts the full band,
Danielle M. and the Glory Junkies. The music
blends influences of some of Moralia's own musical
heroes, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Joplin. She's
joined by bandmates, Lawrence Scudder, Eric White,
Jim Larkin, and Chris Anzalone. Nate Dow of AsHeardHere
.com writes, Danielle Moralia is like a musical
butterfly who's been granted unlimited Creative
Metamorphosis. You're going to love this conversation
and getting to know Danielle. Be sure to visit
danielm .com for all updates and links to her
various social media pages. Find her albums and
songs wherever you download music, get a playlist
going. I could say more, but you know me, I got
to cut it off somewhere. So let's get to it.
I know you're ready. Folks, it is. Danielle Moralia
time. All right. Well, it is a really, I say
this a lot, special treat. I'm trying to move
the word treat out of the way, but it's a real
pleasure to be talking to the one, the only Danielle
Moralia today. Danielle, first of all, thanks
for making time to do this. Thanks for having
me. I know you've been busy out there performing
with your band, The Glory Junkies, and doing
solo performances. I'm sure you're always writing.
What's the latest? If someone were to ask, what
are you doing right now? What are you working
on? Well, now I'm trying to write for another
recording, but I have like a handful of songs
and what happens is you start writing and you
intend to write a certain way because you might
want it to... You can't predict how you're going
to write and what style you're going to... It
just happens. what's happening now is I have
a handful of songs that I don't necessarily think
all fit on the same album. So I'm contemplating
whether to just do some some singles or you know
that's what these days a lot of people are releasing
singles rather than full records you know because
that's how people are taking things in so you
know but I still like the idea of having a cohesive
piece of art that that all goes together as well
you know so that's what i'm sort of struggling
with right now and well also just getting busier
with with uh gigs again after uh you know after
it feels like it's been it felt it feels like
we lost like like a big chunk of time which we
did in a way you know so now it's just kind of
putting the pieces back together and figuring
out where to go from there as far as all this
goes when you released your last studio record,
Bright Shining Stars. This was kind of in the
middle of COVID where October, 2020. Yeah. And
I guess you've been working on it pre -COVID
and then during that time period. What was that
like to just put an album out in those uncertain
times and you're maybe not going to just rush
out and perform live? How was that experience?
It was both. It was kind of, you know, there
are pros and cons to it because was lucky enough
that I had finished all the recording It actually
was already mixed and mastered by the time everything
started shutting down So I was lucky enough that
that was that it was pretty much ready to go
So I didn't have to you know, put it on hold
for a couple of years or anything like that.
But um It was it was like so I put it out with
this tone Label and they it was the first time
I put something out where the right stuff happened
with it as far as like just getting it out to
all the people who would care or, you know, who
would do something with it. So, you know, they
got it to chart on Billboard the first week on
the blues charts and, you know, they got it to
all the different. you know blues radio stations
you know all around internationally and nationally
they got it you know got a lot of reviews and
all that stuff so it was like all the stuff that
i've always wanted to happen with with a recording
but then i couldn't tour with it so you know
i never got to really give it the attention i
would have liked to so that you know that part
of it kind of sucks that i couldn't i couldn't
do anything with it except be like wow that's
cool oh cool i got another review on that oh
you know it's like a little nice you know thing
like that so But the good thing was that while
that in a time when it felt like everything was
stagnant and like, you know, could have just
kind of, you know, just gotten under the blankets
and, you know, decided to just shut down for
a year or two. Yes, but it was like that kind
of gave me a little bit of a nice little ray
of hope within that time that it was like, well,
this is cool. At least like, I feel like it looks
like I'm busy right now, even though I'm not.
There's things happening while I'm just pretty
much most of my time is being spent you know
at home hooking and watching movies and figuring
out what's next but yeah so it was that was that
was a good thing that it came out at that time
but at the same time I feel like it's never gotten
you know a proper proper tour around it or anything
like that so right now I'm like all right do
I just pretend that it just came out and use
the you know and when I when I travel and play
gigs now do I just treat it like this is a new
almost like it's a new release or do I just move
on to the next thing you know so that's that's
the conflict at the moment I think uh without
sound and trite that it's a it's a great album
and thank you for the release date being a few
years ago like you said a lot of people haven't
heard these songs yet you haven't been able to
reach Well, you can never reach everybody, but
you're paying homage to just some legends here
and some people that have been very important
and influential to you, Bob Dylan, Melvin London,
Robert Johnson. I mean, these are songs that
people still would be craving this type of music
or these songs live. I guess while you're writing,
you can maybe not feel rushed to just put out.
I was going to ask about like what you were saying
at the top of having a batch of songs and you're
not sure if they all fit in one bucket for the
same album. Things are kind of moving in the
direction I'll agree with releasing singles versus
the full -length albums. So are you starting
to think well maybe I'll just focus on maybe
the three or four best ones here and put out
some singles and then maybe turn around and pop
out an EP. Yeah, yeah, that might be the route
that it goes. I guess it's like, I usually, when
I put out releases, it usually has sort of a
mix of everything that I've been doing over whatever
the course of time is between albums. And it's
a little bit of, I have like a little bit of
a inner conflict of like, so I'm, this tone is
a blues label, you know? So that's like who I've
been working with them, I worked with them on
this last album. I'd love to put something out
with them next. Everything I'm writing is like
not really blues right now Which it's like what
you're it's like what the I don't know what it
is It's something psychological in me that like
I might my my creativity rebels against whatever
is gonna be best for me in the moment Whatever
is gonna actually work for me at the time is
like the creatively Like I always just start
naturally going in a different direction, which
is you know, probably my biggest setback, but
Yeah, so a lot of what I'm writing right now
is like, it's more, it probably falls more into
like a folk category, which I sort of straddle
both the blues and the folk anyway, but, and
just, and then like I wrote a rock song and I
wrote, so it's like everything's all over the
place, you know, which is fine. I prefer to have
some variety, but at the same time I'm like,
all right, so what do I do with this? You know,
so that's. that's the challenge of that but yeah
but in the meantime most of the shows that I
do are either blues or folk based and so it's
like I you know I have my band Glory Junkies
that's like kind of almost like rootsy rock blues
kind of a mix of things. I play with Peter Parcheck
who is an incredible blues rock guitar player
just I mean just virtuoso and we do a project
together, which leans blues or blues rock. And,
um, and so we kind of those, those songs work
with, with that project. And then, you know,
and then I do my solo thing, which is kind of
a folk blues thing with some singer songwriter
stuff in there. Yeah. I had in my notes that
you've, I feel like you've always given yourself
the freedom to sort of, um, go back and forth
between folk and roots and blues, maybe some
rock in the mix. and to not just stay in that
one department. Yeah, I mean, it's all been an
influence, all of it over time. It's like, you
know, I've honestly always been since for as
early as I can remember, you know, from my earliest
memories, I've been a fan of various popular
music in different genres, you know, and so it's
all in there. It's all part of the influence.
anything from, you know, when I was a kid, you
know, I grew up in the 80s and it was like, it
was like the R &B groups of the time. It was
New Edition and Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. And obviously
Prince has been, you know, he's the whole other
genre in himself, but I've been, you know, Prince
is my favorite of all time, you know, and then
it's like getting into, then I had my, you know,
when I got started playing guitar, it was, it
was like, mostly like glam metal of the time
and that kind of stuff and then and then getting
in then like what influenced that well classic
rock is what led to that all right what's so
then it was like classic rock and that was like
to me that's kind of the golden period of popular
music you know um the you know the stones are
my favorite my other favorite band of all time
jenis joplin hendrix all that stuff and then
it's like all right what influenced that the
blues that's when you get to the blues And it's
like, ah, OK, this is the real stuff right here.
So you dig deeper and deeper, and you keep finding
what influenced what. It all leads to the blues.
Oh, yeah. I can see where some of your primary
influences have helped mold your style. And I
encourage my listeners, obviously, to download
Danielle's music, Bright Shining Stars. These
are just some of the solo records, Glory Junkies
from 2015, Box of Troubles and Nothing Romantic,
the debut, but also go to her website or go on
YouTube because you're not really going to get
the full picture until you see Danielle live.
And what I was getting at here is I really enjoy
the percussion that you build into your one player
sound, like the foot stomping and the way you
strum the Gibson. And just that I'm not describing
it well enough, but where you hit the strings
and you're just going for that. that downbeat
yeah are you uh i couldn't tell exactly but are
you going no pick or do you do a hybrid just
use a thumb that's i mostly play with no pick
um there's like one or two songs they use a thumb
pick for but it's pretty much that sound is pretty
much just fingers on strings fingers to strings
directly and um you know people do it all different
ways you listen to to mississippi john hurt or
bigville brunzey or or some of the later guys,
you know, Leo Kotke or, you know, these, everybody
kind of has, if you watch them play, everybody
has a different technique and they all have a
different feel. Chris Smither is a, you know,
contemporary, more contemporary guy or Kev Mo,
like those guys, everybody has, they all have
a different approach, you know? And honestly,
it's not even just about approach so much as
like what's in the soul and how it's coming out.
You know, so I, I, teach guitar as well and I
always just say like when when people are like
oh I want to learn how to play I want to learn
how to pick like that you know I'm like well
really it's like you can you start with technique
but then it's like then you just find your own
feel you know I I learned it by I honestly I
learned it by not totally learning it so you
know I was I heard somebody playing that style
my actually my friend Michael Troy who's since
passed away and he was amazing songwriter and
just just a beautiful human being and I remember
him telling me you got to listen to Mississippi
John Hurt to get that style he was and he was
more of a folk player and did it like sort of
in the style of um like Dave Van Ronk or that
like that so it's it's who was also influenced
by Reverend Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt
and the blues the blues players so that there
was that sort of god I'm not like a folklorist
who I have I don't have or I don't have like
all the all the details in the years but I you
know there was such a there's probably there's
will inevitably be some expert folk scare of
the 60s uh nerd out there who's gonna say you
have it wrong or whatever but there was this
blend of there was this huge influence that that
that blues had on folk back in the 60s when all
those guys were playing in the clubs in New York
City and all that so Anyway, I'm getting off
on a tangent. The point is, my good friend Michael
Troy had said, because I said, how do you do
that? How do you play like that? He said, just
listen to Mississippi Jan Hurt and learn that
stuff. And so I did that. I also took lessons
from Jeff Bartley, who is a beautiful kicker,
just absolutely great songwriter, kicker. He's
someone to check out as well. And so I took some
direct lessons with him. And then I also learned
out of this transcription book. that Stefan Grossman
put out of all the Mississippi, a bunch of Mississippi
John Hurt tunes. So I would go to that book and
I would learn, I would learn the stuff. And I
honestly have like, I'm not a disciplined learner.
So the truth is I would learn it, but then I'd
be like, oh, I get like, I'd go off on like a
tangent, like I'm probably doing in the conversation
right now. And I'd go, oh. Oh, and then I'd start
writing a song with something I pulled from one
of those songs. And then it would turn into something
else. And then I just started finding my own
way to do it, just picking it a different way.
I love funk and R &B and that kind of stuff too.
Not that I think the way I play is anything like
funk, but I like a back beat. So when I was picking,
when I was using the thumb to kind of go back
and forth, on you know the E string and the D
string I would be I would like really dig into
that D string and I started to get that started
becoming my style like just like it's like a
right almost like a slap bass or something it's
like and so that became my thing so I'm like
an aggressive player I'm not necessarily a finesse
player like someone like Chris Mither is just
it's so smooth you listen to him it's just it's
all it's like oh it's like liquid it's beautiful
And Mississippi John Hurt has a little bit of
both going on in his playing. But anyway, and
also just like the technique, whether you use
all three of your fingers or just one or two,
I use all three and then the thumb. But anyway,
that's really getting into the weeds of it. Yeah,
what I wanted to say, if people listen to the
latest record or listen to the Glory Junkies
full band album, make sure you pair it with the
videos, because Daniel, you really have a unique
style. It doesn't look like you're trying to
be like somebody else. I mean, it really looks
like you've carved out something that's all your
own with, like you said, your influences in mind,
but it's not just one. You're not trying to be
just like Lucinda Williams or Janis Joplin. What
usually comes first when you're writing? Do you
have lyrics? in mind and then you pair it with
what you've already been writing on guitar? It
honestly just varies you know like sometimes
I'm just sitting there playing something on guitar
like I'll come up with a guitar piece and then
I put lyrics to it sometimes I'm driving or doing
something and a lyric comes to mind or an idea
for a song comes to mind I usually just make
like a voice memo of that and of course I have
like thousands of voice memos of things that
never became anything. Sometimes I'll go back
and go, I'm like, I can write albums worth of
songs with these as song prompts. If I had like
a little more, if I wasn't, you know, if I was
a little more disciplined, I would go back and
be like, this is going to be my goal. I'm going
to go to each of these voice memos and write
a song based on, of course that doesn't happen,
but yeah. I really like in your songs, in your
lyrics, some of the social commentary. There's
not really any places that you're afraid to go.
Um, you touch on some Some subjects that are
maybe a little sensitive in um, let me go back
to it here glory junkies I really like this song
There's I have an album called glory junkies
and then I have an album with my band the glory
junkies I think you're talking about the 2015
one is the album called glory junkies If people
wanted to find the band glory junkies, it's danielle
m and the glory junkies. That's how you would
look it up and that's Called all my heroes. I'm
way off. This is actually from nothing romantic
that jumped out at me It's you don't know nothing.
We're at the bar talking to the Vietnam vet and
then yeah, I love the twist and turn of that
story and Thank you, and then that songwriting
continues on the other albums, too. I Guess well
that one. Yeah, I should probably say being at
that age and your first album Did you have any
you probably weren't were you hesitant about
releasing anything or like? Oh, I should probably
rewrite this line No, I think I was more at both
then than I am even now. I kind of didn't care.
I was like, you know, I got like, I don't know,
I, you know, when you're younger, you're, you
don't, you're like, you think you're right about
everything. So, but that song is really about,
you know, everybody's thinking they're right,
but not, you know, it's, that was, that was inspired
by a true thing that happened or like, it wasn't,
you know, obviously you take liberties when writing
the song. So it crafts into like something that's
coherent and sounds like a story. But I used
to play back then. So that came out in 2005.
That's almost 20 years old. That's insane. But
I can't believe it. So I was around that time.
when I was playing tons of bars like that was
my that was my main thing I was doing was and
I never did like top 40 covers in bars but I
did you know I did like some classic rock tunes
and I'd throw originals in there I'd play bars
where like for the most part the owners or whoever's
booking it would let you just kind of do what
you want or whatever so I could try out songs
and it kind of helped me cut my teeth and get
become a better player because I could try new
stuff out when nobody was really listening and
that was I actually overheard a conversation
with a guy saying something about, he was like,
he doesn't know what he's talking about. I was
in Vietnam. I overheard a conversation about
this. And so that stuck with me. And then at
the time, you could have conversations with people
you disagreed with politically. And it was a
heated time politically. you know it was like
the Iraq war and Bush and all that you know it
was there was a lot going on and you know I mean
I'm a singer -songwriter I'm you know I'm a left
you know I lean left that's that's that's what
we do for the most part but you could have a
conversation with somebody who you know I wasn't
like oh I hate your guts now because you're you
know you support Bush I might be like you're
I think you're wrong but you know whatever like
yeah it wasn't it wasn't this like It was it
didn't make or break you to the point where you
were not going to be able to like and there wasn't
social media So you that you'd actually be having
these conversations face to face. It wasn't so
ugly just yet I remember that the Bush carry
election it was starting to get there But you
like you said if you're out at a bar You could
finish the conversation with the left -wing guy
or the right -wing guy and get on with it But
a little different now. Yeah, it wasn't so and
it wasn't so cuckoo crazy like in both directions
or whatever it was just it was like you could
yeah you could have a conversation it was there's
also something to even you know even now if you're
like actually looking somebody in the eyes and
you're talking with them you're not gonna start
calling them horrible names like you would on
when you're on social media when you're on facebook
i went through a phase where i was i would i
would argue with people on social media and now
i just i do not i do not do it on on like facebook
i've i only use it to promote shows and that's
it pretty much you know and I probably don't
come up in people's algorithms as much because
I'm only saying hey I'm playing here but I don't
yeah it's like I can't take it mentally and in
my soul like I can't you know I'm not gonna post
something and then have to sit here with a a
pit in my stomach on what are people saying or
what are they commenting? You know, it's not
worth it because you're not changing anybody's
mind. So yeah, anyway, everybody was right when
we could talk. That was the point. I was going
to say everybody listening here, if you're still
jumping into the comment sections of hotbed topics
on X, get out of there. It's not going to convince
anybody. Spend your energy trying to convince
your sister, your brother, your best friend.
Yeah, not. Waste. Yeah. You're jumping into a
dumpster, you know? Yeah. And it's, and you're
just, you're going to come out feeling gross.
It's just the way it is. It's unfortunate because
you'd like for it to be a place to have actual
good, like good discourse, but it's like, it's
just gone off the deep end. It's really. Oof.
Yeah. Now the title track, I guess you call it
on Glory Junkies. glory junkie I you had me rolling
on this one I'm like I'm a few years late hearing
it because I know this was released of 2015 but
still relevant today I don't have the lyrics
in front of me but it's and you must have been
cracking up when and when the full chorus came
to you of look at you and then I know you do
or what how does it go Look at you, look at you.
When you finally put it together, you must have
been, uh, chuckling a little bit. Yeah, that,
that, I think that one happened pretty quickly.
I, you know, it was, and that, that ended up
being like the, obviously the, the title track.
And then it became the name of the band. Cause
I was like, that's actually a good name for Ben.
Um, but the, yeah, that was, you know, that,
that album came out when social media was becoming
a big, when it was just starting to. grow and
people are starting to be on there all the time
and It's funny. It's like when you are a performer
you are a glory junkie, you know, that's why
you Yeah, if we didn't want people to watch and
listen to us do this We wouldn't you know, we
would just play at home and and just write for
ourselves that we would you know But we do feel
like we want that energy back and we want that
feedback performing is it's like its own thing
You know, there's the the healthy ego. That's
a real thing You have to have some in order to
even want to perform and whether you could argue
whether that's a healthy thing or it's gross
or whatever. But with social media, it's become
an epidemic where it's pretty much how, it's
like everybody needs that attention because you've
got a little taste of it, whether it could just
be that. you know it doesn't matter if you're
a performer or not you might just be like I want
attention for this this funny thing I thought
of or I want this so everybody does it now it's
not just like oh I want to do this because I
want to be a performer I want to do this or that
so it's really become just the way of the world
from that point and since then where we're just
like I need you to give me attention it might
just be like I'm feeling sad today please post
pictures of your cat you know whatever it is
um you know cheer me up and you know i mean really
everybody's we're just trying to get by we're
just trying to figure out everybody's just doing
their best so you know it's not a criticism of
that i think it's just for some people that is
um that is a way to to feel better is like i'm
just going to post this and hopefully get some
affirmation and but it's um it has become so
that song was like in a way i was Thinking about
all that just the selfies and the look at you
look at you or just the idea of being around
somebody Who had who sets all the air out of
the room, you know, yes, there's we're Dan Again,
I have some lyrics written down for other songs
but Dancing in your rain you're I mean you're
working up such a sweat telling us It's been
a while since I played that one, because I forgot
how to play it. But it's something like you're
working up a sweat with dancing in your rain,
something like that. Yeah. I just heard that.
And everybody knows somebody in their life who's
still there or used to be there who's that way.
Where, hey, let's go out for drinks. Let's go
out for dinner. Great. I'll see you at 7. And
you go, and you sit, and you just sit and say,
uh -huh. Uh -huh. Yep. Yep. And then. Oh, it
was so great to see you and you give each other
a hug and you go on your way and you think, well.
Yeah, but anyway, and there's another track on
there I want to move along to, but he did the
win. I just well, I'm a huge baseball fan, but
I like the concept in general of pointing out
how so many times in life you can be so close
to the end of the rainbow or to that promotion
that you're looking for. or whatever it is, you
can almost touch it and then it snatched away
from you. Yeah. Was that a true story about your
dad going through that experience? Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, he, he, yeah, he was a waiter his whole
life. And, um, you know, he just, he, I mean,
now he's retired, he's happy, you know, but,
but, uh, but he always like, would just talk
about how much he hated the job. And then, you
know, he just never got a chance to really. Try
something else and I think it was just more like
a fear or whatever it was, you know, so Yeah,
I mean I think that happens to a lot of people
where they just end up stuck in a job They hate
forever or whatever it is. So yeah, and then
just the whole Bill Buckner thing I just think
I always thought that was fascinating that someone
could become sort of a you know considered, you
know, a villain of an area just because of one
mistake that they made or whatever, you know?
And then that redemption of him throwing out
the first pitch after the Sox had actually won.
I mean, the sports, I'm not really into sports,
but I think, I hate when people tell me that
a song was based off of a prompt, because to
me, sometimes that takes the... It makes it sound
like it was mechanical, but it really wasn't,
but somebody said, write a song about your favorite
sports hero. And I said, like, I'm not a sports
fan, but I was like, Bill Buckner. He's like,
he's like the, he was considered sort of the
loser of the Boston area for many years, you
know, or like the one who, and I find that fascinating.
And for that reason, he's like kind of my favorite.
And, and so I, I, cause I do remember when that
happened. when I was a kid and it was like so
you know I don't you know I don't know how much
you know about the just Boston sports in general
but the fans here are rabid they're just like
you know you could be at a you could be at the
theater and somebody's yelling Yankee suck here
you know it's just you know right there because
I'm not do not like the Yankees so when they
were going to head to head with the Red Sox in
the early 2000s I was always rooting for the
Red Sox and then they finally pulled it off in
whatever, 2004. That was really exciting. There's
a line, I think this ties in a little bit, kind
of like what you're describing with your dad
or anybody that's in a situation that they're
not really happy about and they're dreaming of
a way out. You kind of have to get out of that
idea phase or that daydream phase and write it
down. But there was an old interview, I tried
to do some research here, but you said, If you're
unhappy in a situation change that situation
do something else if there's any way possible
don't Basically don't waste your life Being miserable.
It's yeah often easier said than done. Some people
have some some more resources at their disposal
for sure, they know how to use the internet versus
there's a lot of people that are Underserved
and underprivileged or however you describe it
that or they just got out of jail and they just
don't they can't go quickly get on Indeed and
fill out a resume and start doing stuff that
a lot of us do. Yeah. But there are, I do believe
in getting out a piece of paper or getting at
your phone and taking notes and like put it in
writing of things that you want to accomplish.
Yeah, for sure. And keep looking. And the truth
is like whatever, I think I know the interview
type, it was probably from, I was probably, you
know, 22 or something when I, when I was saying,
you know, I probably was coming from a privileged
place thinking like, well, if you don't like
it, just change it, man. I think I was in that
space at the time, you know, when you don't know,
you don't know when you're young, you know, you're
just like, what do you mean just do this? It's
easy, you know, like, so I like, you know, I
understand now that that's not the easiest thing
for everybody, whether it's that, you know, you
don't have the financial means, or it's just
some people just simply don't have. It's just
there's something in them that just is like a
deep fear and you just don't have that whatever
the tool is to do it. I mean, you know, I don't
have the tool to do everything that the tools
to do everything that I want to do the mental
tools, you know, yes. So sometimes, you know,
I I'm guilty of it to just be like, well, let's
just especially since the pandemic, I think it
really made everybody slow down by force. And
a lot of people decided, oh, I don't need to
be working as hard as I was before, for better
or for worse. It kind of got a lot of people
out of that frenetic pace day to day. It just
kind of slowed all of your processes down. You
don't have to rush to get out of the house anymore
to catch the train or just get on the highway
and just... Yeah. just hurry to get to the office
or whatever you got to be just even just how
many people are working from home now even that
alone it's like oh we don't have to we could
do this from home we have the needs to do this
from home now you know right daniel there was
uh i want to touch every album maybe i will but
box of troubles a couple songs here and then
you continue to do this um in some other songs
as well where i feel like you're trying to inspire
whoever's listening Mean they kind of have to
read into it a little bit, but the song home
on box of troubles I don't know if you perform
this live as much I actually just started playing
that live again a lot recently, but I had put
it down for a while There's a lyric here. Some
devils get their wings some angels fall the rest
of us roam. I Might be off I read into that that
life is not always fair and you can't look at
every one situation Say oh look at that guy.
It looks like nothing ever happens to him. Look
at her. She's Got a new car a nice purse. What's
everything must be going great Yeah Is that and
then also glimmer of gold which you kind of mentioned
the title track there You rise from the rubble
in your box of troubles There's always a glimmer
of gold and that's to me that says press on just
keep going Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Yeah that one I
that was like that was inspired by a winter solstice
card that a friend sent me. So it sounds a little
like goofy to say that, but she, a good friend
of mine, Nancy Scott, who's incredibly thoughtful
and just sends really sweet gifts on birthdays.
And it's always thinking of everybody. And anyway,
she sent a winter solstice card and the winter
solstice card explained what winter solstice
was, which I never, I didn't know up until that
point that it's actually the shortest day of
the year. And then the days get longer after
that. So you're in the dead of winter and it's
the coldest it can be, you know, usually, maybe
not as much now, but. Not a lot of daylight.
Yeah. Yeah. It's just the dark. It's the darkest
time. It's the end. But now, you know, the one
thing you can keep in mind is that now the days
are going to start getting longer. So it's like,
it's that glimmer, glimmer of gold, that kind
of that little bray of hope when you're in your
darkest time. So that was. That's what inspired
that. And then the - Oh, go ahead. Yeah, go ahead,
sorry. No, you go. I was going ahead to Bright
Shining Stars. I have a couple points on this
one, but did you have something you want to say
on home? Well, let me say about Bright Shining
Stars. My husband wrote that song. I knew there
was a story here. Like you had - Yeah. He was
going through something and I don't want to speak
out of turn here, but it was a difficult time
period and you were trying to hide the project
from him and not - Yeah. Yeah. um no there's
no there's uh i could talk about it so well my
husband had he had a stroke in 2019 okay he's
he's doing well now he's knocking on the wood
and all that right now but uh um he's doing he's
doing well but at the time it was a really grueling
thing he was in a coma for nine days because
they he got pneumonia well like when they put
him when they when they intubated him they gave
him staph infection and he had they so he had
pneumonia and they were they had to keep him
under for while the lungs cleared up. It was
the most terrible time ever. And I feel really
lucky that he's here. But in the meantime, he
was not far from his 50th birthday at that point.
So the next year after that happened, that was
like early 2019, he was in the healing. process
and a fan of his band, his band is the Baker
Thomas band, a friend and fan of his band decided
to put together a surprise compilation for his
birthday, for his 50th birthday of a bunch of
people in the music scene here covering his songs.
And so my husband is a pillar of the scene here.
He has been, we met because he was hosting an
open mic back in late 90s, 98. and he's always
he's always been he's a great musician great
songwriter great bass player but also has always
been somebody who facilitates the community in
the scene around here and for the last almost
10 years he's been running a music series out
of the burren in davis square in somerville mass
anyway so he's beloved in the scene here so a
bunch of musicians did covers of his songs and
we made a compilation and obviously I was going
to do one so I had to tell him I had to tell
him why I was going into the studio it was a
surprise so I had so I said oh I'm going over
to Dave Westner's Dave who recorded it and I'm
gonna I'm thinking about maybe making like an
acoustic album of just a bunch of mostly covers
I've been doing over the years which is something
he had suggested to me a while before that like
you should just you should do a covers album
of life so i was like i think i'm gonna go and
and so i had to like i had to make it true because
i'm a bad liar so basically i went in and recorded
a song and then i recorded a bunch of other songs
and then i made it a project and we made it an
album but um and i didn't know i was gonna put
bright shining stars on it at the time But then
when the album was starting to come together,
I'm like, I'm gonna put this on it and it's gonna
be the title track. Because I also felt like
I needed the, I know that, you know, you've clearly
done a lot of research and I really appreciate
it. So, you know, but you could, you might be
able to see a pattern in like the albums that
have mostly like a little bit of a negative twist
to the title, you know, nothing romantic. glimmer
of gold is that's not the name of that album
right i think it's box of troubles and box of
troubles yeah yeah they all have like a little
bit of a they're all a little cynical you know
i mean everything has a little bit of a cynicism
to them and i'm like this one's gonna be called
bright shining stars freaking bright shining
this is gonna be like i'm gonna call this something
really positive because i felt like this is i
need this right now i need positivity i think
the world needs positivity right now and so it
was just like it just it clicked it was like
this is what we're gonna call it bright shining
stars but it's a beautiful song and and anyway
i you had a question about the song itself and
i want to off on another tangent i hope i'm not
over oh no no this is quite all right i was gonna
mention uh first the the track that you wrote
you can love yourself oh i didn't write that
that's the kev moe tune oh i wish i wrote that
i'm sorry that's kev i love that tune yeah yeah
i like the theme there think it's important again
me speaking to the listeners that Because you
know Danielle Whoever you are if you're someone's
a fan of your music if they're anybody out there
me included you might feel like You just made
your best friend mad about something and you
wish you could take it back you feel like you
screwed up at work last week and you got to figure
out a way out of it or you did something really
bad and Everyone's turned their back on you Whatever,
but there's still a chance for It's it's hard
to get there if you're feeling that low to love
yourself, but folks it does start I think it
does start with you if you treat yourself well
try to Dress yourself what that was one thing
about ten or twelve or more years ago I was going
to a rough period of time and the first thing
that I thought to do was All right. I'm gonna
overdress every day I've just got to do it because
I want to look in the mirror and I'm shaving
and I'm, you know, buttoning the shirt. I'm like,
I'm just going to dress, even dress here than
I usually do so I can feel like at least what
was it? Chris Cornell. I mean, it's one of his
big songs with Soundgarden feeling Minnesota
or looking California feeling Minnesota and outshined.
That's kind of how it was. Start with something
small if you're going through a period like that
where you're just beating yourself up and you've
Feel like that's a great. I love that. I love
that. Did it work? Did it? Did you feel like
that helped? Yeah, that helped me a little by
little it kind of helped me get through the days
Yeah, but yeah if you start with something small
because it can just you can just feel like Nothing,
you know, you're just you're just down on the
ground or like like I think the lyric says like
dust on an empty shelf you can get to some low
places, but Yeah. I love that he made it like
it has humor in it too. And it's sort of got
a little bit of double entendre and it's just,
and he, when you, you know, he's such a great
performer too. Uh, Kevin was one of my favorites.
He's such a great live performer and it's just
got this kind of good, you know, it's just got
a fun spirit to it. I love that tune. Yeah. But
the song bright shining stars, the title track,
your husband wrote the lyrics. Is that right?
Yeah. Yeah. the whole thing, but it's like, the
world needs goodness to be grown. How true is
that today? Going back to the early part of our
conversation here, the world needs goodness to
be grown. Let's give a shining star a new home.
I also like how he comes out at the start here.
A lot of people can relate to this. Even though
I never offered up much of a plan, you basically
still took my hand and decided to do this with
me. Just yeah, it's a beautiful song. Yeah, he's
he's uh, yeah, he he's really he's a great writer
but and he writes these like amazing arrangements
and and uh, I Would cover more of his songs if
I if I was better at memorizing chord progressions
Epic tunes with like these amazing chord progressions
even that one. I'm like, I still need a cheat
sheet if I play that one Some of these songs
you've got You've got other players in the mix.
There's some harmonica I don't know all the musicians
on on every track, but anybody you want to recognize
on yeah, it's essentially I mean It's mostly
solo and then I just got a little help from from
some friends like, you know I think Lawrence
my friend Lawrence gutter and bandmate was my
glory junkies bandmate and my friend and I Collaborated
for years. We played together for many years
He played viola on a couple of tracks Peter part
check who was another collaborator of mine was
talking about earlier who I do a project with
he's he's on a couple of tracks and then and
then Rosie Rosenblatt, who's the he's his tone
is his label So I had he's on the meet me in
the morning track He's playing harmonica on that
and so I had like a little bit of help I did
a couple of I did like I think I did one of the
leads myself which was on turtle blues and it's
funny because In some of the reviews, people
are like, we really enjoyed Peter Parczyk's understated
playing on Turtle Blue. I'm like, that's not
his understated playing. That's my simplified
play. But thank you. If you were able to mistake
me even for a second for Peter Project, I am
really, really happy. Just shows me perspective.
Daniel, I noticed watching some of the videos,
you've got an old beat up Gibson. Um, it looks
like you have a few of them Do you take one or
more out on the road with you when you go to
perform? I always have two I always have one
that's tuned to standard and one that's tuned
to open d my lgo is the old like the 67 And it's
that's the one that's like that's a magical guitar.
I use that. I usually have it in open d So I
use that for any slide tunes and that guitar
I have whether I'm playing an electric gig or
an acoustic gig, because it sounds beautiful
just plugged in direct. It sounds really cool
and badass through an amp, even with a band,
you know. So that's like my versatile, you know,
can do anything guitar. And then I play a, I
have a new, I had my J -45 was my main Gibson
guitar for years. And then it just, it got to
where it was hurting my back. Such a big guitar.
So I, uh, I have this double O that I use now
for the standard tuning stuff. And I love it.
And then I use, I use mostly a fender, a fender
telecaster for my electric gigs. Well, and the
glory junkies album that was released in 2017,
all my heroes are ghosts. We haven't quite touched
on this. Probably won't go too deep here, but
that second track, all on fire. I love that.
It kind of. Oh, thank you. It's an up tempo song.
It's kind of like, oh, wow. When that one really
kicks in, it's like, OK, here's some, you know,
it really shows your versatility. How fun or
how much fun is it going out there and playing
with the guys? Do you have to get into a different
mindset? Do you keep the same routines before
those performances? It's different. It's like
it's two very different things, because when
you're playing solo, you're really it's about.
it's always about connecting with the audience
but even more so solo because it's you and them
you know what i mean so there's a little bit
i feel a little more of a connection with the
audience when i'm playing solo because i have
that like i say it's just it's like you with
them whereas but with the band you've got that
energy amongst each other so you're rocking together
you're kind of doing you know and i love it so
much but to me like that's i don't know i love
playing solo because i just love playing acoustic
and i love stomping and do I like I love getting
in that zone that's probably my biggest comfort
zone is the solo thing because I did that from
three years before I had like a regular band
but it's there's nothing like just having that
collaboration with other people and also just
to hang like to me it's just so what I missed
the most during the pandemic was hanging out
in the green room it wasn't even the actual playing
I was like I missed my friends I missed like
just getting to just you know just You just have
this chemistry with your bandmates. They're like
your siblings. You know what I mean? You're able
to just kind of... All the banter. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. It's just something really cool about that.
I missed it a lot when I didn't have that. So,
yeah. I love it both, but I do really enjoy that
connection. Yeah, you have some shows coming
up. The first one after this episode will be
on the 16th. with Jen Kearney, am I pronouncing
that right? Yeah, that's my monthly residency
at the Porch, which actually, this is the last
one for a couple of months, but the Porch and
Medford Mass, which is, that's like a brunch
gig that I do there with different friends. I
call it lunch with friends, so I have a different
friend each month. The other one, the next one
after that is with Peter Parcheck. That's the
project I do with him and we'll be at the fallout
shelter in Norwood Mass. And then I saw in January,
after the first of the year, you're actually
traveling to do a show in North Carolina and
Maryland? Yeah. So I'm doing the International
Blues Challenge, which is in Memphis. So it's
happened every year for many years, and I've
never gone down there. But this year I went and
did the Boston Blues Challenge. I won the Boston
Blues Challenge. First of all, I'll preface it
by saying I always hated contests and I kind
of wrote off, I was like, I'm never doing any
contests again. Like at some point I said, I'm
not answering any contests. Stupid, I hate contests.
But I was just, I don't know, I just on a whim
said, I'm gonna just, I wanna, I would love to
just, you know, I feel a little out of the loop.
I'd love to just jump in and just. go down there
even if it's just for the hang and for you know
seeing everybody and and it ended up being really
fun and even if i hadn't won it would have been
really fun it was just it was it was a good time
and and so now they said now i have to go down
to memphis and do the international blues challenge
so i decided to try to tour down it's all last
minute so right now i have One gig on the way
down and one gig on the way back up. So house
concert in Midland, North Carolina, and then
49 West in Annapolis, Maryland on the way back
up. So hopefully a few more things will come
together. Well, I think I've got some, I definitely
have some listeners in the mid -Atlantic states.
So, awesome. If you guys are listening to this
episode, please go out and make plans. You've
got some time. Hopefully got some money left
after Christmas. to go out and hear Danielle
perform. Danielle, I usually ramp up with a few
just random questions. Well, some of them are
written down. Some of them just come up, just
come to me as we're talking. You got about five
minutes for a few more questions? Yeah, sure.
OK. Now, I know Prince is a huge influence of
yours. My first, when I was about, I'd say sixth
grade, whatever that is, 11, 12 years old, I
was buying cassettes. I wasn't quite to CDs yet.
So the first Prince cassette I got Was um, it
was prince the new power generation Was the one
he put out in 91 diamonds and pearls diamonds
and pearls. Yes. Yeah. Yeah How do you like do
you like that era of prince the early 90s? I
like it all. Um, I yeah, I mean i'm I have a
preference to the revolution to like the um,
you know to 1999, Purple Rain. Actually, my favorite
of his is Sign of the Times, which was the last
one he did with the Revolution. But I love New
Power Generation, too. I mean, that's a great
album. That's got cream. It's got get off. I
love that album. And then he did the Symbol album
after that, just before he changed his name.
I never listened to the Symbol period. Are there
some good deep cuts there? I never heard a lot
about that. I think that the so the symbol album
the album that was just named the symbol that
was like before he actually changed his name
to that is with new power generation and it was
i think it was the next one after diamonds and
pearls um and and that has uh the song seven
on it it's got um i don't know if that that was
like the number one hit on there i feel like
there was one other one but i can't i'm drawing
a blank right now but that that was that's a
great album And that's just before he changed
his name to the symbol. In fact, the first track
on that is My Name is Prince. My name is Prince
and I'm funky. That also has, I don't know if
you could swear on this, I'll just say it has
sexy MF. Yeah, we can push the boundaries, go
right up to the edge is what I say. Yeah. Everybody
knows the the saying don't meet your heroes I
don't have a question about someone you met that
you're like, oh that was a letdown Have you met
someone that? Has inspired you and you thought
well, this would be cool and then you meet him
and you're like, okay He was really awesome or
she was really just exceeded my expectations.
Um Well, so in general every time I've met somebody
I'm a fan of, I've walked away unsatisfied, but
not because of any issue, not because of anything
that they've done. Mostly because of the way
I acted in the situation. Like I got to meet
Bonnie Raitt, and she was, she could have been
nice, she was very nice. But I was just like,
I have music and that's so much, like I just
like blabbed, I just like, you know, a bunch
of words just kind of fell out of my face. gushing
and I don't I wasn't really satisfied with the
encounter but but she was really nice so it wasn't
her fault it was like me just feeling like oh
man I'm an idiot you know um the best the best
that I ever the best I ever experienced was meeting
Joe Cocker oh cool he was just so nice and it
was and I only met him because my friend Kevin
so had opened for him at uh the Beacon Theater
in New York and I went with him and after the
show uh joe came up to kevin's uh dressing room
like there were a bunch of people hanging out
there and he came up and he was just really nice
i mean it was not like oh we bonded and we had
this great like it was just for some reason i
thought that he probably had in my mind i was
like he just seemed like he had this reputation
there's something about his vibe that i thought
he would be a little like edgy or something i
didn't think he would be so nice he was so nice
he was so so nice and he was then he was like
just in passing talking about, well, we did Woodstock,
da da da da da. And I was like, I'm like, I'm
sitting here in front of Joe Cocker and he's
talking about Woodstock. And then he was so nice
and he like gave me a kiss on the cheek goodbye.
And he was just, he was so sweet. That was like
a satisfying encounter, you know, and I probably
didn't say much at all, you know, which was probably
why it was more satisfying. That's a cool story
though. Yeah. Yeah. So that was fun, but. Yeah,
I haven't really met anybody that I was like,
ah, they were jerks or whatever. I haven't met
that many people that are famous. Do you have
a favorite song from your first record or even
a track that you wrote around that time period
or even a couple years before that you never
released, never recorded, never played live?
Do you have some songs that are kind of, you
know, in the vault, in the shadows that you're
very still pleased with all these years later.
Something that's, you mean like something from
the first album or something in the... I guess
it might be two part. I guess what would be your
favorite song from the first album? And then
is there an unreleased song that's very special
to you that you're like, look, it's just, it's
not coming out. I'm not going to play it live,
but I love it. I can't think of an unreleased
one, but the first album... Like Nothing Romantic
was the first full -length album. I just kind
of ignore any kind of little EPs that came up
before that. So I think of that as my first album.
It's weird, when you get distance from something,
sometimes you listen back. Sometimes you listen
back and you go, oh, I wish I didn't say that.
That was pringy. And sometimes you listen back
and you go, oh, okay. I had such a... I had a
period of time in the last year where I was just
not writing much at all. I just wasn't inspired
to write. And I was like, maybe I don't know
how to write anymore. And I was in the car with
my husband, and he just put nothing romantic
on. And I was like, oh, I do know how to write.
I was like, oh, yeah, I'm all right. I know how
to write. But yeah, anyway, from now on, I mean,
I still think nothing. You Don't Know Nothing
is probably the best song I've written and it
was written at that time. So it's probably what's
given me a hard time writing since because I'm
like, well, this isn't as good as that. The chorus
just grabs you and... Somehow that came out and
it was just like, oh, okay, this is like a cohesive...
It's the only... It's like a song that I wrote
that was a cohesive story. It had a good point.
I was just... And I've just not been able to
do that since. Not in that way. I think, I think
Snow Globe is really, you know, aged well. It's,
it's the first track on your first album, but
hopefully you still perform that one sometimes
moment by moment. I do. So, uh, Snow Globe is
like, it's probably gotten the best response
from other people out of anything I've ever written.
And it wasn't necessarily my favorite that I
wrote. It was, it's just, people relate to it,
I think, for some reason, but in different ways,
you know, but yeah. Well, all right, a couple
silly questions here. Danielle, do you ever,
are you ever sitting on hold? And we all know
the hold music. Sometimes it's better than others.
Sometimes you really get treated to some, you
know, jazzy sounds. Do you ever hear hold music
and you're waiting for 17 minutes and you just
start tapping the foot and you start thinking,
I could do something with this. And you start
thinking of... Has that ever happened the answer
is probably no, but I had to ask I love that
question No, because I'm usually so angry that
I'm on hold The last thing on my mind is being
creative and usually it's like and they never
pick good music It's always the most annoying
music that there is I don't know if they're trying
to fully torture you I don't not sure why they
do that, but it's Like I'd rather than just leave
it quiet and every so often say hey we're still
you're still on hold your call your call is very
important to us now back to music i did hear
some hold music the other day and it was i was
scratching my head i was like what is happening
here they it was like simple man and tuesday's
gone and i'm thinking has runnard scannard have
they authorized this because this is i mean I'm
not complaining. This is better than I usually
hear, but what is the world coming to? Daniel,
do you have, are you an animal lover? Yes. Grow
up with dogs and cats. I grew up with cats. My
mom was like a real cat. She's always been a
real cat lady. You know, she always been into
cats. When I was little, she used to take, she
would take in strays. There's a couple of times
she'd take in a stray and then she had one she
took in that like had eight babies and then we
had to find homes for the eight kittens. We kept
one of them who was Mickey and then he was like
this real like, he was just this rough and tumble
like just would go out and come back like after
having fights. He was like, he was just like
this. little mean -spirited sometimes. So we
always had cats when I was a kid and then I kind
of developed an allergy like when I didn't have
one for when I moved out of my mom's house and
you know I realized oh I'm actually allergic
to cats. So I didn't have cats for years and
then my husband and I just were both kind of
allergic but we were just like all right let's
just do it let's get a cat. So we're just we're
not like so severely allergic that we can't handle
it, we're getting used to it, but we got our
cat Lucy like a little over a year ago and I
mean we're like, we're kind of ridiculous cat
owners, we love her so much. She had a lot of
like issues when we got her, like we had to get
all her teeth removed and she had like so many
health issues and now she's doing well. We're
like, yeah, we're kind of silly about how into
her we are, but yeah, short answer is yes. Yeah,
we have three cats. There's the my 10 year old
cat and then we have two kittens that we adopted
a few months ago and How did she take to the
kittens? Was she okay with that? She's not she's
far from okay, and she's pretty Pretty brutal
with them. I would say in the opening weeks,
but she I think she's realizing okay They're
not going anywhere. So maybe I think they've
worn her out too. I mean they're counterattacks.
I mean she used to go up and go after them when
they were sleeping and um and really stir them
up and I'd hear all this commotion but now they
they I think they put a good licking on her uh
once or twice so she is two sisters um the kittens
that we got from the same litter but one thing
I was going to say about cats I'm guilty of this
this is with especially my older cat she she's
been with me since before my wife, the kids,
and so she looks at me every time I come home
like, oh, you're back. Oh, I'm so happy. I could
not be happier. Oh, pay attention to me. Why
aren't you looking at me? Why aren't you awake
yet? Let me lay on top of your head and let me
climb down your throat. She still does all that
stuff. You just get busy, you're occupied with
a lot of stuff. My question, this is so long
-winded, but I was going to ask, do you ever
look at your animal, your cat? and realize, oh,
it's been a week since I've actually looked at
you and not pet you, but just put my project,
my email, my stuff aside and just spent some
time. No, I think more like, oh God, I have to
get some stuff done. I'm just sitting here with
the cat on. Probably the opposite. I'm like,
all right, you've been laying on my chest for
the last hour and a half. I think I need to get
some stuff done. I prioritize her probably to
a fault at this point. Uh, yeah, I do feel bad
like when I, if I, you know, if I go away or,
you know, we have really good neighbors downstairs
who also have cats who, who know how to take
care of cats. So, and they'll come up like three
times a day when, if we go away and ask, ask
them to take care of her. So we're, we're really
lucky. We have, we have like, Really good neighbors,
but uh, but yeah, so then I that's when I feel
guilty, you know when I'm when we're somewhere
else I'm like, oh god, she's all alone right
now, even though she's probably like cool. I
got the house to myself. Oh, yeah Cancer if you
got to go places, I think it's the two or three
night rule They're all okay for a little stretch
their dogs not so much but no, I would feel so
badly than a dog. Oh, yeah OK, I got other silly
questions, but I don't want to take up too much
more of your time here. Well, one more, I guess.
Do you have a do you and Tom have a pop up toaster
or do you have the toaster oven? And you're going
to think what in the world is this? We don't
have a toaster oven. We have a regular toaster.
Oh, there goes my question. I was going to ask
because we have a toaster oven and there's different
settings. There's of course toast and then there's
bake and I think a broil maybe. Have you ever,
someone else has used it before you and you put
a piece of toast or bagel in there and it comes
out floppy and you're like what is happening?
It's because you didn't change the setting. Not
that I can remember. I did have a toaster oven
at one point but I don't remember if that happened.
I know that one time We had this like combo regular
toaster oven. It had like the top slots, but
then it also could be a toaster oven. And when
we were in an apartment in Somerville a few years
back and we had a bad mouse problem, I remember
taking that out and a mouse flew out of the slot.
And it took me a while to want to have a toaster
after that. I have spent all this time talking
about these silly questions. Anything you want
to say about the Boston area, the New England
area, your favorite season, some things that
you and Tom like to do together when you're not
performing? We have motorcycles. He rides his
more than I ride mine. I have like a little Honda.
Rebel 250 that I I just learned to ride like
a couple of years a year a year or two ago And
this was the first season that I actually started
riding it very much But mostly I hop on the back
of his bike, you know He's got he got a Harley
Cruiser this year like a road glide and so we
love just riding out to different parts of the
state and sometimes up to New Hampshire just
finding little towns and and just riding the
roads around there and stopping in a little town
and going into the shops and having some lunch
and it's like our favorite thing to do that's
outside of playing music. That's wonderful. I
just love the story going back to the record.
Again, everybody, please make sure and I'll plug
this as well, Danielle, but bright shining stars,
you're paying homage to your heroes. Danielle,
anywhere else that you're going to be in the
new year that's not listed so far or that you...
that you want to promote? Just the next Glory
Junkies show is, it's in, it's March 7th in Maynard,
Massachusetts. It's called The Sanctuary. So
that's, that's our next show as a band, the Glory
Junkies. So that's the only thing on that list
that was like, it's like the other project that
I'm involved in that, that, so that's the other
gig there. And there's a, there's a bunch of
stuff and there'll be more if you, danielm .com
is the website and that's like the, that's kind
of good catch all for wherever you like to get
your info. It's got all the different social
media links and all that and all the shows listed.
So, okay. Danielle M. Folks, if you can spell
Danielle, you're almost all the way there. Just
throw in the letter M at the end. That's it.
What a great name to say. I got it early on.
My mom was hip with a hip with how to do that
stuff back in the day. So I got my daniellm .com
real early on. Yep. Download these albums. This
is coming out a few weeks. ahead of Christmas.
Folks, if you're having people at your house
around the holidays, play the new one. But, you
know, jump around. Play the Glory Junkies, the
solo album or the full band. Nothing romantic.
Try out these tracks with your friends and family.
You're going to love them. I've been driving
around listening to these songs for the past
couple of weeks. Again, the influences, you'll
hear some of them, but Daniel's got her own style.
So if you already like Lucinda Williams, Janis
Joplin, Bonnie Raitt and Bob Dylan. We didn't
get into much of that either, but you're going
to love this stuff. I'm so happy to promote your
music, Danielle. Thank you again for making a
good chunk of time here with me today. Well,
it was a pleasure. It was fun. It was easy. It
went by really fast. Dan, thank you so much.
First of all, thanks for having me, but also
thanks for really listening to the stuff and
doing the research. Knowing what you're talking
about when you It was it made it a pleasure and
easy to talk about stuff because you you're not
just asking like, you know these like sort of
vague questions like you're you're really getting
into the details of things and You're great at
this. Thanks for it. Thank you. Thanks for doing
this. I appreciate it Well, thank you Danielle
like we were saying I think before we started
the episode People may think that I just have
anybody on the show who says oh sure. I'll do
it. But I really seek out folks performers creatives
that are doing stuff and like you Danielle going
on 20 years or over 20 years performing and You
know, I do try to come in it come in prepared
So this will be entertaining for the Dan time
listeners. So It's Danielle time today. It's
been a true pleasure Maybe later in the year
later in the new year. We can reconnect and talk
about the new material would love that Okay,
well, folks, that's it for this episode of Dan
Time. I hope you've enjoyed it. And remember,
just like the title track on Bright Shining Stars,
that's you. That really, that could be you. You've
got a chance, however small, to make a difference.
The world needs more bright shining stars. And,
you know, superheroes, you can be a superhero
in your own department. You're going to love
the record. Have a great rest of the year. Danielle,
happy holidays to you and be safe. Thank you
so much. All right. If you love that episode,
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