DANNI NICHOLLS
Photo Credit: Rob Bridge (Redwood Photography)
- Artist: Danni Nicholls
- Genre: Americana, Country, Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Acoustic.
- Location: Bedford, UK
- Discography: Heavy Shoes EP (2010), Time EP (2013), A Little Redemption (2013), Mockingbird Lane (2015)
- Record Company: Danni Nicholls Music (Independent)
- Website: http://danninicholls.com/
Danni Nicholls is one of our favourite UK Americana artists and also one of our LCM 'Ones to watch in 2018'. Beautiful songwriting and vocals and super live performances.
From a young age, Danni was soaking up American folk, country and rock n roll music from her Grandmother’s record collection in her small home town of Bedford, UK. When she inherited her Uncle Heathcliff’s 1963 Burns London Shortscale Jazz guitar (rumoured to have belonged to Billy Fury!) aged 16, all those influences came pouring back out in the form of her own original material and has been flowing ever since.
Danni met bassist/producer Chris Donohue (The Civil Wars, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant) in London in 2011 through a mutual friend whilst Chris was in the UK playing bass with Emmylou Harris as one of her Red Dirt Boys. The pair have now made two critically acclaimed albums together with some of Nashville’s finest musicians featuring on the tracks. Debut ‘A Little Redemption’ was released July 2013 on Transmission Recordings and new album Mockingbird Lane was self-released in October 2015. Credits on the albums include the legendary Al Perkins on Dobro (Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, The Rolling Stones) Steve Fishell on Pedal Steel (Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt) and Will Kimbrough (Jimmy Buffett, John Prine)
“My time in Music City working with these great, great musicians was a hugely inspirational and surreal experience. It forced me to raise my game and push my boundaries. I’ve come away with two albums which I’m immensely proud of”
Armed with her trusty, ‘weathered and worn’ Tanglewood guitar, Danni has been touring relentlessly far and wide, honing her craft and wooing audiences. A vibrant, spell-binding performer, she has been invited to support many artists such as Todd Snider, Jolie Holland, Kim Richey, Jim Lauderdale, Angus and Julia Stone, Bobby Bare Jr, Otis Gibbs, Mark Olsen, Nell Bryden, Tift Merrit and Diana Jones.
With performances guaranteed to melt your heart into the soles of your cowboy boots, her passionate delivery, captivating velvet voice and charmingly engaging between-song banter compel you to fall under her spell.
Danni is planning to release her excellent third studio album shortly.
Smoky soul, folk-pop and heart-wrenching alt-country, all in a rich voice (Q Magazine)
Sumptuous…a warm wry line in confessional songwriting (UNCUT)
One in a million… (Maverick Music Magazine)
Just Terrific - (Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2)