MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Danny Barnes As one of country music’s finest banjo-pickers, Danny Barnes has little trouble keeping busy. Aside from leading the much-championed alt-bluegrass outfit, The Bad Livers, for the last decade, this Austin, Texas native -- now a Seattle resident -- has played alongside ex-Faces member Ronnie Lane, provided the score to the 20th Century Fox film The Newton Boys, and played on the Disney children’s CD, The Sounds of Springtime -- all while running his own independent record label, Minner Bucket. In October 2000, he unleashed his first commercially released solo disc, Minor Dings, via Cavity Search Records. Barnes’ history as the Bad Livers songwriter, singer, banjo player, producer and recording engineer has helped yield the group wheelbarrows full of acclaim over the course of four albums. With partner Mark Rubin on bass and tuba, the duo have performed some 1700 shows, sharing bills with acts like fellow Texans, The Butthole Surfers, who Barnes, oddly enough, cites as a large influence on his recording technique. “I subscribe to the Butthole Surfer method of recording,” reveals Barnes, of his short time spent with that band’s studio whiz (and lead guitarist), Paul Leary, who produced the Liver’s 1992 Touch & Go debut, Delusions Of Banjer. Says Danny on his website, “[Paul] really impressed me, the way he came up with a vision and then flung himself into it, madly. Pretty cool. You end up with some great music that way. I’ve tried to make all my records with this method. Notice ‘what the public thinks’ isn’t a part of the process.” One glorious product of that process is Minor Dings, which originally surfaced in late 1998, when the songwriter made 100 copies -- one at a time on his home computer -- for distribution to friends. Somehow a copy wound up in the hands of the folks at Cavity Search, and 21 months later, the set became publicly available. Having played and programmed all the music on his own terms, Minor Dings, ends up being a very personal statement from Barnes -- once dubbed zen-banjo master by The Seattle Times -- to the listener. As Danny explains perfectly, “It is a direct conduit to my hypothalamus.”     Danny Barnes Play The Guitar MP3,WinMedia Alt-Country Zen-banjo master (and Bad Livers frontman) Danny Barnes may not be your pappy’s idea of bluegrass, but when it comes to the genre’s singer/songwriters, he’s the mackin’-est.
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