For a few years there was no more thrilling guitar player in the broadway honky tonks than Daniel Donato. The fresh face kid he was just 16 was the sharpshooting sideman in the don kelley band, commanding tips from tourist four nights a week at nashaville hot spot Roberts Western World. Now 25 Donato will release his debut solo album. Young Mans country on friday.
Ahead of the LP the Nashaville native unveils an animated video for the track"Justice" that captures the cosmic country vibes of his music. There are traces of the Grateful Dead(one of his chief influences) mixed with the Telecaster twang of Waylon Jeannings Donato says"Justice" is a cross between country and the dead and pairs an upbeat vibe with a sad lyric.
"It sound Happy,kind of like Sugar Magnolia. But the riff to this song is reminiscent of Nineties countrys and outlaw country he tells"Rolling Stone". "Lyrically the story comes to life in the hook, just as a country song should,At the hook line'ain't no justice,unless its just us'I had just broken up with my first love, but was still in Love. A confusing crossroad many of us have been at".
Donato Produce A Young Man's Country with Robben ford recording the LP at Nashavilles Sound Emporium in December.
Justice gets completely cosmic at the end by going into a different world musically", Donato says. The video reflects that transition perfectly. This to me is a cosmic Country song".
The justice video was animated by Giorgos kapsankis Nikos Giannakakis and Stathis kefalas.
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