Homage to Danny Deardorff on what might have been his birthday
Channel: joe breskin
Date: 2023-02-13

I have been blessed over the years to have gotten to play with some truly brilliant musicians, and if you play with someone brilliant for long enough, and pay enough attention, some of their magic sometimes rubs off on you.
 
And because it's Daniel's birthday, even though he's been gone for a while now, and because I had picked up my guitar and was making up some melodies that were almost but not quite worth remembering, Maria asked if there were any chord progressions or chord shapes that were sort of "Pure Danny" and I said "yes there are" and as I played them for her, I told her this story about how he had truly changed the way I approach the guitar on what might well have been our first real meeting as musicians, a random encounter on the sidewalk in Port Townsend, years before we really started playing together.