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Artist: Danny Britt
Album: All Over The Map
The seven albums preceding and the fact that Austin Texas based Danny Britt is a founder member of Grouchy Like Riley, means that a wealth of experience underpins and polishes ALL OVER THE MAP. Indeed, keyboard player Chip Dolan and guitarist Marvin Dykhuis from GLR also appear on this set. It is a more acoustic album than the Eagles like lush Americana, with the focus on the songwriting and the voice.

Danny has an easy voice that makes the glass half empty bar song “Bar Stool” and “You Might Not Say” sound both effortless and perfect. Chip Dolan’s piano and the snappy lead guitar stops it all being too melancholic. Its Dolan’s piano and a stroked guitar that sets the mood on the jazzy “Heart’s Desire, another finely phrased song. “She’s Dreaming” is a ‘get me the hell out of this town’ people watching song. Danny’s voice suits these real people sketches, perfectly. “Photographs” and “When The Day Is Done” slow it down with a perfectly phrased guitar and a nuanced vocal that’s Tom Russell meets Chris Rea. The arrangements, musically all over the map, drawing on Americana, Country, Folk, Jazz and Tex Mex, shine around Britt’s intimate storytelling. Danny’s cover of Guy Clark’s “Stuff That Works” is a wry nod to Clark and suits Britt’s voice and delivery well. He finds a warmth, if not Guy’s bite, this anthem to the familiar and the classic. Friend and Americana legend Jerry Jeff Walker asked Danny to record “Friends And Memories”, the last song he ever wrote. Britt’s version of Walker’s song is a languid spoken blues with all the effortless swing of “Mr Bojangles”. Perfectly shadowed by Colin ‘Spider’ MacKenzie’s part campfire, part train noises harmonica, Britt delivers the defining moment of the album, inhabiting the rich lyric. “That Ain’t Right” is a life gone wrong Country song, the bitter lyric is lifted by the nimble guitar duet between Britt and Marvin Dykhuis. “Tularosa” is a short story in a song, a guide to weed running, a back story to bar owner. “One More Dance” is a ballad love song, with a reflective vocal from Danny and Chip Dolan’s piano providing the music. ‘Now I know our time is done, all our trips around the sun, I know we did all we could do, there’s no regrets from me to you’. Powerful sentiments, end of a life, end of a relationship, its an emotional closer.

Marc Higgins

FATEA-RECORDS.CO.UK

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Veteran Austin musician Danny Britt's seventh Album is indeed, as the title says, all over the map stylistically, but in a good way. The unifying vibe is late-night bar, two or three people drinking alone, reflectively droning their sorrows and pondering the roads not taken, and Britt uses this on classic ballads ('The Bar Stool'), the jazz-tinged ‘Heart’s Desire', the country ‘You Might Not Say’, the wryly funny ‘Tularosa" and more. Britt’s voice is smooth and easy on the ear, his acoustic guitar playing tasteful and economical and his accompanists slot in effortlessly, particularly Chip Dolan on piano. His is the sort of music you can ease into, comfortable and relaxing but with lyrical insight. People like Britt are the unsung heroes of the Americana world, never making many waves but turning out solid music for decades, the sort of songs that you stumble across unexpectedly, nod appreciatively at and wish you'd heard earlier.

Jeremy Searle

RnR Magazine, UK

Based in Austin, Britt’s seventh album, All Over The Map, is succinctly summed up by its title, the genres contained within wandering between jazz, old time country, folk and Americana. It’s country saloon sensibility is set with the dusty voiced, piano waltzer opening track, ‘The Bar Stool’ where “there’s a sad song playing on the juke box” and “a drunken old fool” sitting all alone “thinking about where it all went wrong”. All over the map it might be, but it’s well worth planning a route through it.

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MIke Davies, Folking.com - UK folk and Americana music

Danny Britt has released his seventh album, All Over
The Map and the record is just that, regarding genre styles, upbeat jazzy, old country, folk and
American. Great recording, writing and musicianship. Two thumbs up!

Tom Tranchilla
Host: Songwriters Studio
KPFT, 90.1, Houston, TX
A Pacifica Network Station

ALBUM REVIEW - Real Roots Cafe

Oldest American Roots Blog in The Netherlands

Danny Britt - All Over The Map - FEBRUARY 26, 2023

BY FRED SCHMALE

The delightful simplicity of the title radiates to the delightful simplicity of the music. But don't be fooled, this Austin dude is just damn good at what he does. Danny has one of the most beautiful and smooth voices in Austin, plays great guitar and together with his mates he provides a 'must have' for fans of Austin folk. (Independent, Red Dawg Music)

https://www.realrootscafe.com/page/2/

Grouchy Like Riley - Still

Great recording, excellent production, mixing & mastering, Still, Grouchy Like Riley, is for the
listener with above average tastes. Two thumbs up!

Tom Tranchilla
Host: Songwriters Studio
KPFT, 90.1, Houston, TX
A Pacifica Network Station

Greg Tutwiler, Singer MgazineSwennen, Roots Revival Radio ATL, Bree Belgium

"I've enjoyed listening to the great music and beautiful songs and I will give your disc regular airplay in my radio show because You're damned good."

Doninique Costanoga, Country Music Gazette / Radio Marseillette - France

"Powerful vocalist and a sensitive interpreter of lyrics. All the songs are an unusual boldness and richness. Great Album!!! Like a Jewel... No, sorry, your album is not a jewel but a super, a wonderful jewelry case".

Dino Della Casa, planetcountry.it and Country Store, The official magazine of the Bluegrass & Country Music Association of Italy.

"To date Danny Britt & Red Dawg - Texas Stuff has not gotten the credit that it deserves. In the distance of a couple years from Red Dawg music comes Danny Britt - The Other Side and the disc does not disappoint, indeed."

Laurie-Ann Copple, CKCU 93.1 FM, Canada

"I find Danny's music approachable - medaning that it touches the pulse of the listener - they can identify with it...it's real."

Matt Watroba, Sing Out Magazine

"Texas Stuff is an excellent first outing from this duo raised in Kentucky and planted in one of the hottest musical beds in the country."

Lynne Thompson, New Texas Magazine

'Danny Britt's newest release The Other Side (Austin Red Dawg Publishing) is filled with the wonderful sounds of that laid back, down-home, progressive-folk style that have made him and his band Red Dawg performing favorites in Austin for years." "The Other Side showcases Danny Britt's versatility and talent, and boasts some of Austin's best musicians and performers."

Gary Barton, KBEC and the Texas Theater

"Several of the songs will get airplay on my show at KBEC and other stations should be playing them too. Some fantastic songwriting and vocals. Good job!