Honoring Danny Gatton — Tonight in NYC

If you are a fan of the late Danny Gatton, as I am, we’d better hope that somebody records tonight’s proceedings. At Joe’s Pub in New York City, they are presenting a special program entitled “Honoring Danny Gatton.”

Here is the blurb from The New Yorker about the show:

Every major city probably has its own fabled guitarist — a scene pillar who, though revered by locals, is basically unknown to the wider world. The Washington, D.C., legend Danny Gatton was one such figure: a stupefying guitar player, equally adept at blues, rock and roll, country, and jazz, whose limited career ended with his suicide, in 1994, at the age of forty-nine. Joel Harrison, who soaked up inspiration from the master firsthand, has organized a long overdue tribute that includes such Gatton devotees as Oz Noy, Pete McCann, Anthony Pirog, and Brandon Seabrook.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall tonight!

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