Danny Gotham

CDs

These are some of the CDs I have recorded. If you are interested, e-mail me at steelstringer@gmail.com and I will give you all the details. All CDs are $15, the postage and packaging $5 more. I have experimented with selling digital downloads of my albums, but at present, I'm sticking with these strictly as CDs. Sorry--I am old school!

"Sundays" is my newest album. It's a collection of music that I've performed at my church over the years. It's very, very quiet, simple, short (about one-half as long as "Guitarheel"!), and sweet. A sequel (with Glenn Mehrbach on piano) is being planned for the near future. This one is mostly solo guitar, and it's designed for quiet times.

Guitarheel is my magnum opus. It is 72 minutes long (whew!) and the twenty cuts on it feature nineteen musical friends. Among them: Robin and Linda Williams, Peter Ostroushko, Orrin Star and Nina Gerber. Tons of guitar and mandolin. Everything from Hank Williams to Vivaldi to Charlie Parker to George Gershwin to Woody Guthrie to several originals from yours truly. This one also has a twenty page booklet. I have never worked as hard on anything as I did on this album.

"r3" is the Rounders' final recording. There's a ton of good tunes on it--some original, some traditional, and some old favorites (Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Lennon/McCartney). In all honesty, this is a good one, and you get a lot of music on one CD. We jokingly call this one "The Gray Album" in homage to you-know-who (I hope you know who!), and to acknowledge that we are indeed getting gray! In fact, it would be probably about two LPs of material, if LPs were still around.

Happy Holidays is an album of mostly Christmas music, recorded in 1986. It's very simple--just two guitars (Barbara Heller and myself) with no overdubs or fancy production. It is probably the most popular recording I have ever done. I am very happy with this one.

Luzerne is my first solo CD. It's straightforward, and uncluttered, and has lots of great songs on it. Among the writers: John Lennon, Steve Goodman, John Fahey, and me. Among the players: Peter Ostroushko, Tony Markellis, Stringfellows, and my Racquette River Rounder buds. I am pretty happy with this recording, warts and all.

Old Friends is my second solo CD: there a lot of songs that I've played and listened to over the years (hence the title; some of these pieces were recorded on earlier albums), and this recording features some of them (Donovan's "Colors"; Hendrix' "Little Wing", among others) as well as a number of newer original mandolin compositions that were inspired by my favorite picking partner, Peter Ostroushko. I worked very hard on this album, and I'm really pleased with the results.

Gotham and Kribs (aka "The Old Goats"!) is our first duo album. It features us equally as players and singers, and I think that it speaks to our omnipresent chemistry and mutual admiration. One original from John, and others from Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Norman Blake, Richard Thompson....

The "Blues" album is mostly electric. It has lots of blues standards--John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Big Bill Broonzy.. Features mostly my Northern NY crew--the Rounders, Frank Carcaterra and Rick Rumney on drums, and Kevin Maul on dobro and slide guitars. Straightforward and lots of fun.