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Artist
Dan Sandman
10+ albums
acousticfolksinger-songwriterThe Poetslorcas
about
I began playing the trumpet in the school orchestra. At twelve I gave up on brass because my older brother said, “you’ll get lots of girls if you play the guitar”. After giving up on the guitar two times I finally had a breakthrough when I learnt how to play the melody to Blowin’ in the Wind – third time lucky I’d say! It wasn’t until August 2006 that I truly discovered what Folk Music is. I had traveled up to The Green Man Festival somewhere in the Welsh Countryside by myself. It was here that I encountered Bert Jansch, a guitarist who I’d been told was “as good as Jimi Hendrix”. I started wandering around the campsite listening to people singing old songs around the campfire. I went for a ramble singing a melody to the wind; there were some very tall sunflowers around. So I finally put away my electric guitar and focused on songs, only songs. I was teaching the guitar to make a living, reading inspiring books and learning more about my instrument. My confidence grew as a singer singing in his own voice about things that had affected me. Then Chris Monger asked me to travel to his bedroom studio for a demo... It was late October and autumn was all around. Chris had set up some microphones, I had brought my Taylor 514CE and a portable recording device with some sounds on it. Suddenly we were listening to Ryan Adams Heartbreaker very loudly, drinking beer, adding e-bow and playing with keyboard textures. Having another person’s sudden creative input made such a huge differ
