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SUMMARY:Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
DESCRIPTION:General Admission tickets are Standing Room Only. There are a
  lot of musical influences and sources that Daniel Donato has drawn on d
 uring his career and that inform Reflector (Retrace Music)\, the Nashvil
 le guitaristsinger-songwriter-band leader's first all-original album. Bu
 t within those\, Donato has carved out a unique and individualized spot 
 for himself\, one that speaks to the deep American music heritage that i
 nspires him -- and that he's pushing towards the future with inspired\, 
 intentional vigor. He calls it Cosmic Country\, a moniker that's both se
 lf-descriptive and a statement of purpose. It's an organic rock band aes
 thetic with plenty of roadhouse twang\; a showcase for Donato's instrume
 ntal virtuosity and facility for melodically infectious songcraft. Bridg
 ing Nashville and the Great West\, Kentucky and mid-60s northern Califor
 nia\, tie-dye and plaid\, it's a world of his own\, and a wide world of 
 musical adventure at that. "I think Cosmic Country is a tale as old as t
 ime\, really\," Donato explains. "It's yin and yang in a musical form. I
 t's three chords and the truth\, and then on the other side it's explora
 tion and bravery. I really went through a lot of years of grinding\, and
  still am\, to achieve this sound which is a vehicle for my personality\
 , and the personality is a vehicle for my soul. So (Reflector) is more t
 hat than any other record I ever put out." Reflector's 15 songs offer 66
  minutes of ecstatic musical immersion. It's an album in the classic sen
 se of the word\, tracks that are individually memorable but sound even b
 etter coming one after the other and make the sum greater than the total
  of its parts. "We're touching on a lot with this record\, which is also
  why there's so many songs on it\," acknowledges Donato\, whose stinging
  Fender Telecaster tone is the strongest glue of continuity throughout -
 - and is positively screaming on tracks such as "Gotta Get Southbound" a
 nd "Dance in the Desert Pt. 2." "If you're the kind of person who wants 
 to listen to a record and have a record be a companion with you\, then R
 eflector is going to vibrate in your frequency." Donato's own musical fr
 equency was tuned at a young age while growing up in Nashville. His fath
 er "picked around a guitar a small bit\;” more importantly\, he instille
 d in his son a discerning taste for quality music\, filling his son’s ea
 rs with legendary music of all genres. The rock meanwhile\, came from Gu
 itar Hero\; the game was crucial to broadening Donato’s vistas of listen
 ing to Jimi Hendrix\, Eric Clapton\, Jimmy Page\, Stevie Ray Vaughan\, e
 t al\, as well as a particular attraction to Guns N' Roses' "Paradise Ci
 ty. "Those players stuck with me and gave me my first foundation of guit
 ar\," says Donato\, whose father taught him his first chords on one of h
 is old guitars. "I was a strange kid -- still am a strange person. I rea
 lly didn't have any friends that got me\, but the guitar understood me\,
  and I had a vision for what my life could be." It was Papa Donato who s
 uggested the fledgling and industriously minded (even at just 14) artist
  start busking in Nashville's lower Broadway area and outside concerts\,
  for eight hours at a time on the weekends. After one of those sessions 
 the two happened by Robert’s Western World\, a legendary honky-tonk wher
 e local mainstay the Don Kelly Band was onstage – which was also Donato’
 s first time playing a Telecaster\, through a Fender amplifier no less. 
 "I played country songs and fell in love with it\," says Donato\, who be
 came a member of the band\, playing four hours a night at Robert's (464 
 shows in total). "Their songbook was that of my main influences still to
  this day -- Merle Haggard\, Willie Nelson\, Waylon Jennings\, Bob Wills
 \, Marty Robbins\, Bill Monroe\, traditional bluegrass music\, Hank Will
 iams Sr. -- old-timey music with real stories and emotions that everybod
 y has. It just hooked me right away." Another piece of the puzzle came t
 hrough later in Donato’s teenage years -- the Grateful Dead\, thanks to 
 a high school American History teacher who gave him a pile of bootleg re
 cordings when he was 18. "When I discovered Jerry Garcia\, there's reall
 y never been anyone who writes like that\," says Donato. "From there I w
 ent on to discover Bob Dylan and all the great writers and made me want 
 to make that part of what I did as well." The whole package of player\, 
 singer\, writer and band leader was in place when Donato began working o
 n his own during 2018. It was on display via his first album\, A Young M
 an’s Country in 2020 but refined on Reflector\, which features all origi
 nal songs and finds Donato and his band – Nathan Aronowitz (keyboards/vo
 cals)\, Will McGee (bass/vocals) and Noah Miller (drums and percussion) 
 --honed from playing more than 200 shows during 2022\, after the Covid l
 ockdowns had lifted. That allowed Donato to not just play again but also
  to road test the songs that would comprise the album and expand the aud
 ience. "We were home for less than two weeks between January and Septemb
 er of 2022\," says Donato. "There was the existential necessity of going
  through a staggering amount of growth. All those shows and all those ho
 urs of experience really curated my values as an artist. That informed m
 y composition\, informed my band-leading...everything that goes into mak
 ing music that has real value and impact." Donato had good help in achie
 ving that on Reflector\; he enlisted producer Vance Powell\, a six-time 
 Grammy Award winner whose eclectic resume ranges from Chris Stapleton an
 d Martina McBride to Phish and Clutch to Buddy Guy and the Jack White un
 iverse of the White Stripes\, the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather. They'
 d actually met when Donato was a teen playing at Robert's\, and he remem
 bers Powell telling him that "one day you're gonna make a record\, and I
  want to work with you\," which made him the perfect candidate to help D
 onato achieve his far-reaching vision this time out. "Vance was on damn 
 near every record I enjoyed\,” he notes. "He seemed like the only logica
 l choice to take a band that has country songs and old-timey folky songs
  that also jams and organize it into a digestible piece." It's hard to f
 ind a more concise summation of Reflector than that. It kicks off with t
 he joyous Southern rock roll of "Lose Your Mind\," a sound echoed in oth
 er tracks -- especially the harmony-laden "High Country" -- and gets hig
 h 'n' lonesome on "Halfway in Between." "Double Exposure's" slinky funk 
 is accented by dueling guitar lines\, while "Half Moon Night" and the in
 strumental "Sugar Leg Rag" feel like a contemporary incarnation of Bill 
 Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. "Gotta Get Southbound\," weighing in at nearly
  eight minutes\, dances through its ebb and flow dynamics\, and "Faded L
 ovin'" echoes the organic majesty of The Band. Donato and company get th
 eir cosmic on with both hip-swaying parts of "Dance in the Desert" -- on
 e more acoustic\, the other a trippy electric opus -- and the richly mel
 odic odyssey "Weathervane." Reflector -- which features Nashville pedal 
 steel legend Paul Franklin on four tracks -- also reflects "the work I d
 id on myself and the work I did on my art" during the past three years\,
  according to Donato. "I really started discovering new psychological an
 d ritual domains I wasn't really aware of\," he explains. "The whole con
 cept of Reflector is of a duality. The entire world that you see externa
 lly is a reflection of your internal world\, so you have this internal w
 orld you exist in and this external world you exist in\, and that's what
  this work is about. I like dualities\; it allows me to see where each s
 ide of the fence post is\, and I can paint in the middle." The middle of
  anything has never sounded as engrossing and beguiling as Donato makes 
 it on Reflector. These are songs that prompt a listener to hit "repeat" 
 and that stick with you long after they've finished playing. They hit th
 e heart\, the soul\, the mind -- and the cosmos\, making it the kind of 
 trip you won't want to end any time soon.\n\nTickets: https://www.axs.co
 m/events/1468561/daniel-donatos-cosmic-country-tickets?skin=globeiron\n\
 nhttps://findlocal.community/event/c94d690e-0873-4bd3-be46-0767d2273785
LOCATION:Globe Iron\, Cleveland\, OH
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/c94d690e-0873-4bd3-be46-0767d227378
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