Dan Takes Five

Dan Baird is one of my rock heroes. He's a great songwriter, singer and guitar player in the country/blues/southern rock tradition, but often overlooked by the rock cognoscenti in my opinion. He achieved some fame in the 1980s as a member of The Georgia Satellites, whom I was lucky enough to see live several times. After releasing three albums, the Satellites split and Dan went on to release some excellent solo material including 'Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired' and 'Buffalo Nickel'. For the last few years he's been touring with his band 'Homemade Sin', playing Satellites and Dan stuff, plus classics by the likes of ZZ Top and Neil Young.

Jose, Paul, Andy and I saw Homemade Sin at the Robin 2 club in October 2006. A criminally poor turnout (it was a Monday night - that's all I can think!), but another storming set. Jose took some stills, which I had the intention of turning into a movie, courtesy of some Ken Burns transitions. There weren't really enough photos to fill a 3-minute song unfortunately, so I cheated and mashed in some footage from an earlier gig.

I'm quite pleased with the result though!