About Danny Bryant

Ask Danny Bryant about the events of September 17th, 2011, and it all comes flooding back. The nerves in the morning. The soundcheck. The stampede of feet as the hard-core arrived. The snatched moments of calm in the wings, flanked by his Redeye band-mates, waiting for the compere’s announcement, and finally, the walk from the shadows into the spotlight. Night Life is branded onto his memory.

With a tour diary that fires him across Europe for 150-plus shows each year, this after-hours world of humming amps and cheering strangers is Danny’s natural habitat and the only life he knows. Still, he’ll admit that this show is a special moment in a thirteen-year ascent.

It’s a long way from ’80s Hertfordshire to the epicentre of the post-millennial British blues boom, but Danny Bryant has always walked his own path. In the age of the quick-fix ce-lebrity, the TV talent show and the marketing campaign, there’s an old-fashioned secret to his slow-burning success. Raw talent. Hard work. Touring. Sacrifice. For the 31-year-old bandleader, this isn’t a ‘job’, but a quest to seize the blues-rock baton of his heroes.

From the moment that Danny strides onstage and tears into Tell Me on his cherished Fret-King electric, this is a snapshot of a modern blues titan performing at full-throttle. Seamlessly, he moves between the neck-hair-tingling intro to Love Of Angels, the pow-erhouse riffs of Heartbreaker and the heartfelt lilt of One Look, drawing on his catalogue of classics for the benefit of a crowd that had crossed continents to share in the music. “I feed off the crowd,” he admits, “and if they’re good, it makes the gig.”

Indeed, it’s testament to the strength of Danny’s self-penned material that these songs stand shoulder-to-shoulder with cover versions of Bob Dylan, Buddy Guy and John Hiatt. Yet the climax of the night is all his own, as he reaches Always With Me and pushes the performance over the edge, violining volume dials, wrenching feedback from his Marshall stack, slapping hands on the fretboard in a starburst of primal expression. It’s a thrilling spectacle.

Biography

Danny Bryant was born in Hertfordshire England in July 1980. First hailed as a ‘young guitar prodigy’ Danny 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 travelling 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 acknowl-edged 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 that has seen Danny perform on the same bill as such names as Joe Cocker, Carlos Santana, Greg Allman, Buddy Guy and Peter Green to mention just a few, Danny and his band have steadily carved a huge and loyal fan base around the world.

So far the band has released seven internationally acclaimed CDs, their fourth release ‘Days Like This’ featured a stunning duet with special guest blues legend Walter Trout.

A track from their “Live”’ released that same year was included on a compilation CD re-leased by Virgin/Emi entitled "The Best Blues Album In The World Ever" Danny was fea-tured alongside many giants of Blues, including Johnny Winter, Gary Moore, Albert Collins and ZZ Top. February 2010 the album "Just As I Am" was released, the band’s fastest selling and most critically acclaimed album to date. Appearing on Blues charts across Europe and with glowing reviews from the international press, and numerous in-terviews and features in music magazines such as Guitarist, Classic Rock (the title track was issued free on the cover mount CD) and Guitar Techniques - "Just as I am" has turned out to be a milestone album for the band.

In 2011 Danny Bryant signed up to Jazzhaus Records, marking the next step on his mu-sical journey.

Links:

Official Website: http://www.dannybryant.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dannybryantsredeyeband

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/dannybryantblues

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/dannybryant

Booking: http://jazzhausbooking.com/