Thursday, July 22, 2010

Album Imminent and meeting Peter Green


Hi Everybody
Sorry its been a while since i last updated you but i can now say that the album is only a few weeks away and all the tracks have been finished and just need to be mastered now which is very exciting yet also very very frightening. It seems like a lifetime ago now that i first started this adventure yet it is still only about 10 months.
There have been many highs and lows in that time and even a few squabbles as well (but only in a creative sense)and for my part i would like to apologise for sometimes being a DIVA i was just trying so hard to get it right!!
One highlight recently was meeting the LEGEND that is Peter Green from the original FLEETWOOD MAC with my good friend and amazing guitarist Jon Lodge. We played him a track of his that we had covered and he loved it and gave us his blessing which was a complete honour, Jon was blown away as he was meeting his idol and in his words "The Greatest Blues Performer Ever To Come Out Of The UK" listening to Peter talk about the old days jamming with people like Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix was just fantastic and it was just a pleasure to sit and listen to him reminisce.
With the songs on the album i have tried to incorporate something for everybody so there are some ballads, some uplifting songs, a bit of blues,soul,fun,laughter and tears. It has also been great to write some of my own songs and sing them and also getting great feedback from professional musicians and i have also now been offered a worldwide publishing deal with a very successful publishing company which will look after my interests globally , i am so excited about this and was very pleased when i was offered the deal straight away after they had listened to my songs.
It has been a very emotional journey and has really helped me grow into the music and also given me a lot of strength and hopefully some self belief in what i am hoping and want to achieve, and i have also met some truly amazing talented people who have taught me so much about the business.
We are just working on a title for the album now and have narrowed it down to just a few and i hope it doesn't come down to a toss of a coin as to which one we'll choose but it will be something that best describes what the songs say about me and how the whole experience has been so far.
I will be back very soon with concrete release dates for both Cd and downloads.
Thank you all so much for your continued support and love it is truly an honour to have made so many new friends and i consider myself a very lucky guy.
Take Care Everyone
Love Daryl
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