Danny Dolinger is a wordsmith plain and simple. And that knack has stayed with him since the early 80s when I first saw him perform at a little club in Denton, Texas. Back then he was known as Young Daniel, a young man with guitar in hand. Danny has since grown up, but his soothing voice and romantic spirit remains undaunted. From the love letter to his home state, to the kiss his ass road trip to make music, to the immortalization of Speed Racer’s monkey, you can't put Danny in a neat little box. He'll always come up for air with a performance low on frills and big on heart.
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i love danny's music - especially live - and this one gets about as close to having him in the living room as i can with only a cd in hand!  the song, west virginia, makes me shiver with good feelings every time i hear it - the songs are all great.  we haven't taken it out of the cd changer since we opened it weeks ago!  gotta love it!
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Danny Dolinger is a hippy. A real one. A bonafide tree-hugging activist. He travels the world loving the planet and the people who help him travel in it, even immortalizing some of them in song.

His new album contains a sweet collection of these immortalizations. But beyond that, Danny also likes to write goofy songs about goofy things(can you say Bunny Rabbit Hearts?) to make you laugh. Danny likes to make you laugh and feel good. Calling him a folksinger is like calling Carlin a joketeller...

The album would make a worthy addition to anybody's collection with sure-fire rock anthems like Meat Patties From Outer Space and There's Something Rotting In My Room which addresses the lack of personal awareness, and apparently hygiene, in our world today.

hint: put the cd on and give it a listen one evening when you have an hour to cuddle with your sweetie when there's nothing on tv and you want a quick giggle.
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Danny Dolinger is not only a fantastic musician with both a fun and profound set of lyrics, but a traveling do-gooder extraordinaire to boot!  How can one man accomplish so much and still have time for prodigious imbibing?  Well, not being so skilled a time manager myself, I can’t really say how he does it, but only that he does it.

I have been listening to his last album “Rome wasn’t burnt in a day” for a bunch of years now without ever tiring of it and I expect the same to be the case with “Significant Gains”.  Danny once again mixes serious soul mincing songs like “Crizel” and “Paint a picture for me” with the incredibly fun flashback of “Racer X” and the worrying “There’s something rotting in my room”.

All in all it is another fun and moving album by Danny and well worth the purchase price.

Thanks Danny!
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