daniel donato a young mans country

​Daniel Donato (from the album A Young Man’s Country available on Cosmic Country Music)
The cover of the debut from Daniel Donato, A Young Man’s Country, is a keeper. I get why a warning label would mar a work of art though the first cut, “Justice”, is seriously addictive…..so now, you have been warned. The tune gives a sonic stretch in its opening before launching into a guitar riff that sticks and won’t let go.. The cover art and the opening track are quality-control templates for A Young Man’s Country. Daniel Donato packages a full album listen on the album, his songwriting, guitar playing, singing, and delivery performed with an ease that presents a meticulously crafted album with a shrug and a smile. The secret ingredient is charisma, outside of the pleasure of listening, the songs that are charming, old friends and new ones that fit like a comfortable shirt. Daniel Donato shares musical associations from his own record collection, covering three acts that show a framework of influence in his own music. A Young Man’s Country raises the roof with fire-breathing guitar licks on Rodney Crowell’s “Ain’t Living Long Like This” and softens the stuck-in-it sorrow of John Prine’s “Angel of Montgomery” by shuffling the style into a front Porch Folk reverie. Daniel Donato funks with psychedelic guitar noodling to open the Grateful Dead tune, “Fire on the Mountain”, and receives ten dancing bears for making his August 7th release date for A Young Man’s Country in the middle of Jerry Week. 
 
Video games were Daniel Donato’s gateway drug for music. Playing Guitar Hero opened him to the instrument as well as the classic rock song structure which helped mold his own musicals excursions. Daniel was a kid that played guitar day and night, moving from his bedroom to busking on Lower Broadway in Nashville and wandering into Robert’s Western World to hear the Don Kelly Band. Still in his teens, Daniel Donato’s requests to sit in with some of the finest players in a city full of pickers were tolerated though unfulfilled….until one day. Sitting in with the house band Daniel returned to ‘sit in’ for over 450 shows. Rubbery notes wander around Daniel Donato when he heads for the bright lights, offering his hand to join the revelry with “Meet Me in Dallas”, his guitar a pied piper leading the way across the track’s psychedelicized bridge. A Young Man’s Country raises a glass to “Sweet Tasting Tennessee” as truck lights leave an East Coast town, bets big on a honky tonk rhythm for “Luck of the Draw”, and signals “Forgotten Days” on a percussive rattle while Daniel Donato polishes “Diamond in the Rough” on a train track beat and struts into the boasts of “Always Been a Lover”.
 
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