Danny Click
Danny Click grew up in a small farm community outside Indianapolis as the youngest of nine children in a working class family. He played guitar in his sister’s country and western band while in still high school, and later moved to Austin, where his alt-country outfit, Danny and the Hurricanes, became a local phenomenon. For years, Click was one of Austin’s best-kept secrets, a musician’s musician who’d won the respect of some of alt-country’s biggest names but hadn’t yet found widespread recognition. That changed in 2011 when Click, now living in Northern California, released Life Is A Good Place, a record that spent more than a year on the Country, Pop, and Americana radio charts. The first single, “Wait My Turn”, reached #1 on Nashville’s Indie World Country Chart; the second, “I Feel Good Today”, topped out at #14 on the NMW national Country chart along side Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift.
Danny Click and his band the Hell Yeahs have played hundreds of shows over the past few years and also opened for legends Taj Mahal, Cake, Robert Plant, Mavis Staples and Sonny Landreth. A brilliant guitarist, also with the slide, Click mixes stellar Americana with blistering blues-rock. In the tradition of the Texas greats, he writes wide open, deeply felt songs rooted in a life well-lived.
His most recent album, ‘Holding up the Sun,” recorded by legendary producer Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, Wilco, Lucinda Williams), was released in 2016 and is still on radio charts and DJ playlists across the country, with the title track reaching #1 on Indie Country radio. Last year, Click’s songs were broadcast, downloaded and streamed over 1 million times. No Depression Magazine has called Click “one of the best alt-country artists of this century.”