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| Sunday December 14, 2008 |
Event: Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkins House Concert
Location: Blacksburg, VA
Time: 7:30 PM
Reservations required: yes |
Website: www.dannyschmidt.com
Feedback: Help us welcome Danny and Carrie to Blacksburg from Austin, TX! Danny was here solo in April and now he returns on tour with Carrie Elkins. Danny’s a songwriter’s songwriter -- with a literacy and complexity, and
an underlying humanity, rare in this age of sound bite attention span
marketeering. His tunes are wire frames draped with sheets of poetry.
They’re not your typical Texas singer/songwriter colloquial polaroid trail
diaries. And they’d make lousy beer commercials.
He has some of the qualities of the greats, though -- from Townes Van
Zandt’s ageless and understated sincerity, to Dylan’s topical relevance and
wry sharp eye for the allusively obvious, to Dave Carter’s quiet spiritual assurity and sense that each song was
plucked whole from a tree more than labored through, line-by-line with pen and ink. And it all leaves you
with that Leonard Cohen after-taste, that there’s something here worth studying as much as listening to.
Those aren’t holistic comparisons, just commonalities and contextual descriptions. Cause more than any
particular shared virtue, Danny has a quality common to all these preeminent writers: he has his own unique
voice. He doesn’t sound like any of those guys at all, really. He doesn’t sound like anybody you’ve heard
yet. Truly.
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