Saturday's concert out of this world

May 11  2010

On Saturday night, Texan folk/blues musician and songwriter Danny Schmidt performed to a full, enthusiastic audience above Sound Advice. Schmidt's lyrics were brilliant and profound and his guitar playing was phenomenal. Not only is he an amazing and sincere musician, but he is also able to laugh at himself while revealing personal stories.

However, not all of Schmidt's songs were humorous. Some of his songs were
lightly satirical, while others were beautiful, serene and meaningful. In his song Stained Glass, he sang "as the monstrosity of colour slid its tongue across their eyes and they shivered from exposure like babies born again, 'cause in every pane of glass was the joy and pain of man." The song continues with each line of lyrics being truer and more heart-wrenching than the last.

Schmidt's songs were multi-faceted and vivid, throughout the performance his passion was evident. The audience seemed to be spellbound by it. Some of the songs that Schmidt performed included Houses Sing, This Too Shall Pass, Better off Broke, Company of Friends, Little White Angels, Two Guitars on the Sofa, Almost Around The World, Blue Railroad Train and Stained Glass. Astoundingly, each song Schmidt played was equally as mesmerizing as its
predecessor.

The whole set was spectacular, but the songs that received the biggest reactions were Stained Glass, Almost Around The World and Ragtime Blues, a song that made the audience howl with laughter. Schmidt noted that Ragtime Blues was not "girlfriend-friendly" as the lyrics are about "negotiating through monthly irrationality." The song Almost Around The World is a humorous and satirical song about what Schmidt would teach a parrot, an elephant and a pig to do if he could make them convey what he really wished he could say to people at times. With lyrics such as "if I had a pig, I'd take teach it how to count, it's money that rolls around in mud and hogs that rule the house, I figure if my pig could root beneath the bottom line, well, we'd both get high on truffles and on dandelion wine."

Schmidt ended the night with a fabulous cover of Bob Dylan's Buckets of Tears, which received a thunderous applause. If you want to learn more about this amazing musician, go to his website at www.dannyschmidt.com.

The performance by Schmidt was just one of many concerts at Sound Advice.
Watch for their monthly events in the coming weeks.