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"If
John Steinbeck had written music, he'd have written music like
Dan Janisch..." - Don Grant, Freight Train
Boogie "...impossible
to fit into a particular stylistic niche, and he's certainly
not just another aging sidewalk performer..."
- Stewart Mason, All Music Guide (see below)
"He gives broken hearts
some lovely places to hide..."
- Falling James, LA Weekly
"...His newest disc reflects
the curiosity and creativity if not the sonic quirks that
make his best songs refreshing..."
- Bliss, Pasadena Weekly |
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| UPCOMING
SHOWS |
| Friday,
June 26, 2009 |
Cinema
Bar |
3967
Sepulveda Blvd
Culver City, CA 90230 |
9:30pm |
Paniolo
Productions presents...
The Dan Janisch Band &
the Ben Vaughn Desert Classic |
| Sunday,
July 5, 2009 |
Grand
Ole Echo |
1822
Sunset Blvd.
Echo Park, CA |
5:30pm |
The
Happy Bookers &
Paniolo
Productions presents...
The Dan Janisch Band, Chris Shiflett,
Blind Pony - Smith & Wesson |
| Friday,
August 28, 2009 |
Cinema
Bar |
3967
Sepulveda Blvd
Culver City, CA 90230 |
9:30pm |
Paniolo
Productions presents...
The Dan Janisch Band & Nels Andrews |
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| NEWS |
Currently all tracks from 'Medicine Man' are being played in:
Germany, France, Netherlands, Scotland, Italy, Australia, Canada,
Belgium, Israel, USA & beyond!
#23 on the Euro Americana Charts /
#16 on the FolkDJ List
Medicine Man - CD
of the Week! - Dutch Roots Radio Collective 'Blueprint' -
host, Thomas Kaldijk
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“Dan Janisch is a troubadour of the old school. It’s
just him and his guitar weaving stories... in a delicate and
understated style that renders them all the more powerful. He’s
also something of an optimist (a rare thing in the Americana
genre)... Janisch is simply overwhelming and has the perfect
voice to convey it. Medicine Man has just nine songs, but each
one is a little gem and together they make an impressive and
rewarding listening experience.” - Maverick
Magazine
“...there
is a good spirit in this album and the vocals are a real pleasure
...musically and instrumentally, it is really perfect...”
- American Roots Music, Mike Penard ISA Radio
“Janisch’s rough Americana
reminds me of some of the finer points of the early labor
movement tunes...he swagger’s his way through nine beautiful
folk tunes.”
- Jake
Nuckolls, CDReviews.com
"Based in the picturesquely
ramshackle seaside town of Venice, CA, singer/songwriter Dan
Janisch sounds like the sort of folkie who has spent more
than a few hours on the city's busker-heavy piers. But the
incorporation of pop, blues, country and unidentifiable other
elements in Janisch's primarily acoustic songs is impossible
to fit into a particular stylistic niche, and he's certainly
not just another aging sidewalk performer... Medicine Man
is a solid singer/songwriter offering." -
Stewart
Mason, All Music Guide
“I love surprises,
do you? Believe me and listen to this very pleasant record,
written, sang and played for me, and probably for you as well...I
had to search a long time for negative criticism in this volume
of magnificent songs. The only negative point I can find is
that there are “only” nine songs on this lovely
cd... Fairly raw, powerful voice. Original melodies. Thrifty
roots instrumentarium. Who loves Americana as a mix of folk
and rock & roll with emphasis on the first can’t
go wrong. That, I guarantee you. You can take this text as
a binding written agreement!”
- Translation of
MazzMusikas review (Formerly: RootsTown Music)
"Medicine Man is a very
fine and pleasant album, one of the best I had the chance
to listen to from
an American songwriter in recent times...” -
Massimo Ferro Radio Voce Spazio
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Freight Train Boogie
All
Music Guide
AmericanaUK
CDReviews
AltCountry.nl
RootsTime.be
L.A.
Weekly
Pasadena
Weekly
Rootshighway.it
Real
Roots Cafe
Dutch
Roots Radio
Il
Popolo del Blues
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| BIO |
| Dan Janisch
is a California based songwriter and performer. His place in
the scheme of modern American song is a present day verse and
found melodies, but not quite fully divorced from a familiar
tone of the American Folk song and Rock ‘n Roll.
If there is a reason to consider Dan Janisch’s music
it might be to derail the ever present idea that ‘A’
type of music is for ‘A’ type of person and so
on, split down the line. Whether one be a rocker, a hip hopper,
a punker, an americana-er, a hippie, a square, a 15 year old,
a 60 year old, a cop, a robber, rich or poor, etc. Sometimes
it might be good to shove some of that B#*LS*#T out of the
way and connect differently; see we’re all people. Dan
Janisch’s music is a fine place to do that; it’s
music intended for all the people somehow.
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