Album Notes

This is Danny's latest CD. Recorded in the Summer of 2005 it features him playing live with his acoustic trio doing blues, folk and more!!! Blues Project fans: Note that this cd includes new acoustic renderings of Alberta and You Can't Catch Me!!!!!


A protege of the great Dave Van Ronk, Kalb established himself on New York's seminal folk and blues scene in the '60s, where he was first known as a solo performer and session player wjth Phil Ochs, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, and others, and later in The New Strangers duo with Sam Charters. In 1965, Kalb founded Verve/Folkways recording group, The Blues Project, with Al Kooper, Roy Blumenfeld, Andy Kulberg,
Tommy Flanders and Steve Katz. Even today, this important group flourishes with ......numerous album reissues/compilations (MCA, Polygram, Rhino, One Way).
According to Sam Charters, "It was generally conceded... that ... Kalb was the most exciting of the new players. We met when we were both playing in Dave [Van Ronk'sl Rag-time Jug Stompers... After these apprentice years... he became a founder of The Blues Project, one of the seminal rock bands of the '60s... He still performs in Greenwich Village clubs, and... has been working on an album which combines his
extraordinary blues technique with some of the new, free guitar music... His touch on the guitar is as exciting and as individual as ever."
From folk to blues to jazz, Danny Kalb's experimental mindset and talent played a significant part in redefining musical genres and boundaries. Danny Kalb's story continues to unfold as he brings his incendiary guitar style to a new generation of students, musicians and fans.



from: In-Media
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