DANNY CLICK & THE HELL YEAHS
''CAPTURED LIVE!''
RECORDED AT 142 THROCKMORTEN THEATRE, MILL VALLEY, CA, JUNE 11 2013
2014
70:18
1 - Fools Parade 3:08
2 - No Good Reason 5:18
3 - Once Upon A Time 6:04
4 - Wait My Turn 4:06
5 - Can't Let Go 5:32
6 - Forty Miles 6:53
7 - Livin' It Up 3:50
8 - You Don't Know Me 6:54
9 - Stranger Blues 5:16
10 - When I Get Drunk 6:01
11 - West Nashville 9:03
12 - Swingin' 8:06
Danny Click (vocals, guitar);
Don Bassey (vocals);
Adrienne Biggs Tennant (violin);
Rebecca Roudman (cello);
Mike Emerson (keyboards);
Kevin Hayes (drums).
ABOUT
'Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs Captured Live'
By Paul Liberatore
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Danny Click arrived in Marin from Austin, Texas, a half dozen years ago and has done more to invigorate the local music scene than anybody in recent memory.
The 53-year-old Indiana-born rocker has become one of Marin's most popular performers in that time, attracting legions of Clickhead fans. In recent years, he has assembled a cast of some of our finest rock and blues musicians in a band he calls the Hell Yeahs. This debut CD was recorded one night last September at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley.
As the band's tall-drink-a-water front man, Click sings in a dry Texas tenor and shows off some serious guitar chops forged in the competitive fires of Austin, where being good ain't good enough.
For this show, the Hell Yeahs featured the rock solid rhythm section of drummer Kevin Hayes, seasoned by years with Robert Cray, and bassist Don Bassey, who takes a vocal turn on Delbert McClinton's blues shuffle "Livin' It Up."
Mike Emerson holds down keyboard duties and soars on organ, violinist Adrienne Biggs Tennant and cellist Rebecca Roudman form a scintillating string section and Lynn Asher and Tracy Blackman hold nothing back on harmony vocals.
In a guest spot, Rancho Nicasio's Angela Strehli, the Queen of Texas Blues, turns in a nasty rendition of Elmore James' "Stranger Blues."
Click wrote five of the dozen songs on the album, including "Wait My Turn," one of the highlights of his critically acclaimed studio CD "Life Is a Good Place," which spent 10 months on the country, pop and Americana radio charts in 2011.
Click includes a selection of seven tasteful covers, including Steve Earle's snarling "West Nashville," Randy Weeks slow burner "Can't Let Go," Eddie Burns' high speed blues "When I Get Drunk," the jangling guitar tune "Fool's Parade" by Andy Van Dyke and Tom Petty's fighting ballad "Swingin'."
Props to engineer Mat Cohen for recording and mixing a record that sounds almost like being there. The independent album was financed by a Kickstarter campaign. A major label has shown interest in releasing it, so for the time being it's only for sale at shows. "Captured Live" manages to capture the sound of a band that has become a genuine Marin County phenomenon.
Buy It: "Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs Captured Live," $15, available at Danny Click shows.
OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
Until a few years ago, Danny Click was one of Austin’s best-kept secrets, a musician’s musician who’d won the respect of some of alt-country’s biggest names but hadn’t yet found widespread recognition.
That changed when Click’s latest CD, Life Is A Good Place, was released in April, 2011 and spent more than 12 consecutive months on the Country, pop, and Americana radio charts.
The first single, “Wait My Turn”, reached #1 on Nashville’s Indie World Country Chart, and the second single, “I Feel Good Today”, topped out at #14 on the NMW national Country chart along side Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, where Click now resides, he’s built a large and passionate fan base that includes musical greats Carlos Santana and Elvin Bishop, both of whom have joined him on stage for impromptu jams.
Click and his band The Hell Yeahs, featuring a round-robin roster of top-shelf musicians, have played more than 200 sold-out shows over the past two years, as well as opening for legends Taj Mahal, Cake, Robert Plant, Mavis Staples, Sonny Landreth and JJ Cale.
Last summer Click bumped it up another notch, playing large festivals like the new Mount Tam Jam and Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland.
What’s causing all the buzz? First, there’s Click’s sound – a refreshing return to smart, sassy blues-inflected country rock. Think Tom Petty crossed with Wilco, spiced with the southern tradition of Lucinda Williams and John Hiatt. Add to that Click’s searing guitar, reminiscent of Stevie Ray and David Lindley, and you’ve got at least part of the picture.
Then there are Click’s live shows; an anything-can-happen mix of stellar songwriting alternating with blistering blues-rock. When Click brings it down with the strings-inflected “Blue Skies”, you can hear every breath in the room; when he launches into the infectious “Wait My Turn,” there’s not one person who can stay seated.
Lastly, there’s his songwriting. Continuing in the tradition of the Texas greats, Click pens wide open songs deeply rooted in a life well-lived. Growing up in a small farm community outside Indianapolis, Click was the youngest of nine children in a working class family. He was gigging in his older sister’s country and western band before he was out of high school.
Click moved to Austin, where his three-piece alt-country outfit, Danny and the Hurricanes, was a local phenomenon. He then spent three years with Americana artist Jimmy LaFave.
Life Is A Good Place is the payoff, putting Click squarely in the upper echelon musically and lyrically. From its radio perfect songs to the sparse stories taken from real life, it leaves you filled with hope and a new respect for the human condition.
Fast forward to 2013. After four previous records and literally hundreds of gigs on the road, Click’s latest single, Baptize Me Over Elvis Presley’s Grave, went to #9 and stayed in the top 10 for the entire month of October, 2013. The music video is on CMT and is a viral share online.
Already in 2014, Danny has become a regular guest with Phil Lesh & Friends at the Grateful Dead legend’s club, Terrapin Crossroads and has released a ripping live CD, ‘Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs! ~ Captured LIVE!’
And that’s just with in a few weeks of the new year!
Fasten your seatbelts.
OFFICIAL SITE
''CAPTURED LIVE!''
RECORDED AT 142 THROCKMORTEN THEATRE, MILL VALLEY, CA, JUNE 11 2013
2014
70:18
1 - Fools Parade 3:08
2 - No Good Reason 5:18
3 - Once Upon A Time 6:04
4 - Wait My Turn 4:06
5 - Can't Let Go 5:32
6 - Forty Miles 6:53
7 - Livin' It Up 3:50
8 - You Don't Know Me 6:54
9 - Stranger Blues 5:16
10 - When I Get Drunk 6:01
11 - West Nashville 9:03
12 - Swingin' 8:06
Danny Click (vocals, guitar);
Don Bassey (vocals);
Adrienne Biggs Tennant (violin);
Rebecca Roudman (cello);
Mike Emerson (keyboards);
Kevin Hayes (drums).
ABOUT
'Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs Captured Live'
By Paul Liberatore
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Danny Click arrived in Marin from Austin, Texas, a half dozen years ago and has done more to invigorate the local music scene than anybody in recent memory.
The 53-year-old Indiana-born rocker has become one of Marin's most popular performers in that time, attracting legions of Clickhead fans. In recent years, he has assembled a cast of some of our finest rock and blues musicians in a band he calls the Hell Yeahs. This debut CD was recorded one night last September at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley.
As the band's tall-drink-a-water front man, Click sings in a dry Texas tenor and shows off some serious guitar chops forged in the competitive fires of Austin, where being good ain't good enough.
For this show, the Hell Yeahs featured the rock solid rhythm section of drummer Kevin Hayes, seasoned by years with Robert Cray, and bassist Don Bassey, who takes a vocal turn on Delbert McClinton's blues shuffle "Livin' It Up."
Mike Emerson holds down keyboard duties and soars on organ, violinist Adrienne Biggs Tennant and cellist Rebecca Roudman form a scintillating string section and Lynn Asher and Tracy Blackman hold nothing back on harmony vocals.
In a guest spot, Rancho Nicasio's Angela Strehli, the Queen of Texas Blues, turns in a nasty rendition of Elmore James' "Stranger Blues."
Click wrote five of the dozen songs on the album, including "Wait My Turn," one of the highlights of his critically acclaimed studio CD "Life Is a Good Place," which spent 10 months on the country, pop and Americana radio charts in 2011.
Click includes a selection of seven tasteful covers, including Steve Earle's snarling "West Nashville," Randy Weeks slow burner "Can't Let Go," Eddie Burns' high speed blues "When I Get Drunk," the jangling guitar tune "Fool's Parade" by Andy Van Dyke and Tom Petty's fighting ballad "Swingin'."
Props to engineer Mat Cohen for recording and mixing a record that sounds almost like being there. The independent album was financed by a Kickstarter campaign. A major label has shown interest in releasing it, so for the time being it's only for sale at shows. "Captured Live" manages to capture the sound of a band that has become a genuine Marin County phenomenon.
Buy It: "Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs Captured Live," $15, available at Danny Click shows.
OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
Until a few years ago, Danny Click was one of Austin’s best-kept secrets, a musician’s musician who’d won the respect of some of alt-country’s biggest names but hadn’t yet found widespread recognition.
That changed when Click’s latest CD, Life Is A Good Place, was released in April, 2011 and spent more than 12 consecutive months on the Country, pop, and Americana radio charts.
The first single, “Wait My Turn”, reached #1 on Nashville’s Indie World Country Chart, and the second single, “I Feel Good Today”, topped out at #14 on the NMW national Country chart along side Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, where Click now resides, he’s built a large and passionate fan base that includes musical greats Carlos Santana and Elvin Bishop, both of whom have joined him on stage for impromptu jams.
Click and his band The Hell Yeahs, featuring a round-robin roster of top-shelf musicians, have played more than 200 sold-out shows over the past two years, as well as opening for legends Taj Mahal, Cake, Robert Plant, Mavis Staples, Sonny Landreth and JJ Cale.
Last summer Click bumped it up another notch, playing large festivals like the new Mount Tam Jam and Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland.
What’s causing all the buzz? First, there’s Click’s sound – a refreshing return to smart, sassy blues-inflected country rock. Think Tom Petty crossed with Wilco, spiced with the southern tradition of Lucinda Williams and John Hiatt. Add to that Click’s searing guitar, reminiscent of Stevie Ray and David Lindley, and you’ve got at least part of the picture.
Then there are Click’s live shows; an anything-can-happen mix of stellar songwriting alternating with blistering blues-rock. When Click brings it down with the strings-inflected “Blue Skies”, you can hear every breath in the room; when he launches into the infectious “Wait My Turn,” there’s not one person who can stay seated.
Lastly, there’s his songwriting. Continuing in the tradition of the Texas greats, Click pens wide open songs deeply rooted in a life well-lived. Growing up in a small farm community outside Indianapolis, Click was the youngest of nine children in a working class family. He was gigging in his older sister’s country and western band before he was out of high school.
Click moved to Austin, where his three-piece alt-country outfit, Danny and the Hurricanes, was a local phenomenon. He then spent three years with Americana artist Jimmy LaFave.
Life Is A Good Place is the payoff, putting Click squarely in the upper echelon musically and lyrically. From its radio perfect songs to the sparse stories taken from real life, it leaves you filled with hope and a new respect for the human condition.
Fast forward to 2013. After four previous records and literally hundreds of gigs on the road, Click’s latest single, Baptize Me Over Elvis Presley’s Grave, went to #9 and stayed in the top 10 for the entire month of October, 2013. The music video is on CMT and is a viral share online.
Already in 2014, Danny has become a regular guest with Phil Lesh & Friends at the Grateful Dead legend’s club, Terrapin Crossroads and has released a ripping live CD, ‘Danny Click and the Hell Yeahs! ~ Captured LIVE!’
And that’s just with in a few weeks of the new year!
Fasten your seatbelts.
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