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Catch that vagabond feeling this new year with a local Americana/Roots Rock band Your No Good Buddies. They have a 12-song CD out called "Guts and Gravel" that glissades through Alt-country, Cajun, Rock, Reggae and Bluegrass. The players include Blandford resident Dan Daniels on rhythm guitar and lead vocals; Dan Margolis on electric lead guitar and mandolin; Shawn Mansfield on bass, Guy Wallis on mandolin, guitars, harmonica, keyboard, accordion and washboard; Kurt Hansen on mandolin, Bill Klock and Seth Hoffsomme on drums. The CD opens with a rousing country-rock song "The Teardrops Start." The title cut "Guts and Gravel" is a Alt-Country tale worthy of a smile. Nothing here is straight forward country but is Blue State alternative. "What would Jesus Drive?" is irreverently humorous harmony. "Your No Good Buddies" is a country shuffle number that beckons one to spend time with them. Their approach to music is upbeat and fun allowing for moments of great harmony. It has some sort of "rooted" quality... a sense of a past and place behind it but ironically it is energetically new-timey sounding. Celebratory pop-twang nestles alongside friskier old-school rockers. The paeanic, "Willie's Dream" has vision as wide as the Texas skies. The freedom of "Do It While We Can" continues in the Americana storytelling arena that paints itself into those brightly lit corners from which there seems no escape. "Empty Rooms" is one of those haunting country waltz tunes... a weeper that makes one cling to the memory of some long lost romance. The CD closes with "Rock -n-Roll" which honors the artists that made the style part of living. This music is part of a continuum that connects us to the past but outlasts the blues. Check out their website at www.yngb.com
Eric Sutter
| September 22, 2004 : Old buddies break new ground with CD from THE REPUBLICAN By: KARL M. REXER Old buddies break new ground with CD THE REPUBLICAN Wednesday, September 22, 2004 By KARL M. REXER krexer@repub.com BLANDFORD - In the spring of 2002, Dan Daniels, Dan Margolis, and Shawn Mansfield, self-described "old farts who have been playing music for years and years," formed a group, Dan Daniels and Your No Good Buddies, to perform some cover songs at Tolland's annual Black Fly Day celebration. "We formed this band with the idea of being a cover band," recalled Daniels, 59, the lead vocalist, rhythm guitar player, and songwriter, this week. "But I'd come into rehearsal with one or two new songs I'd written, and the guys would say 'These are really good; we should really start playing these'." So they did. "Guts and Gravel," a compact disc of all original material and the group's first recording, was released last July. Daniels, Margolis, and Mansfield form the core of the band, while Guy Wallis on mandolin, electric and acoustic guitar, and harmonica, Kurt Hansen on mandolin, and Billy Klock and Seth Hoffsommer on drums play on some tracks as needed. "I call our music Americana-country-rock," Daniels said. "The Americana movement is composed of people who are not happy with the direction of the music coming out of Nashville these days, and want to take the music back to its roots." Mansfield, 57, who plays bass and electric rhythm guitar, calls the band's music "fun, light and humorous." He said, "We may touch on some serious themes, but we don't beat them to death. It's not crying in your beer, boy finds girl, boy loses girl kind of stuff. Being the age we are, we've passed through that. "And I enjoy playing tunes that people haven't been hearing forever." Daniels recalled that most of the songs on the CD were written in one creative burst. "From June 2002 to December 2002, I went through a real song-writing frenzy," he said. "All the songs on our CD, save one, came out of that." Said Mansfield, “The genius of Dan Daniels as a songwriter is, he takes common occurrences, relates them to universal themes, and does it in a humorous fashion. Our music is a little bit of thinking with a whole lot of fun.” Daniels said, "I've heard people refer to us as the Alternative-Country Barenaked Ladies." "Guts and Gravel" is available at Platterpus Records in Westfield, and Dynamite Records, B-Side Records, and Turn it Up in Northampton. It can be purchased on-line at www.yngb.com Dan Daniels and Your No Good Buddies will perform at the Points East Restaurant in Westfield on Sept. 25 and Aura in Easthampton on Oct. 2. They also play at Cook's Farm in Hadley every third Sunday. |
| August 12, 2004 : The Duke Listens to Your No Good Buddies By: Aaron "The Duke" De Mondo The Duke Listens To Your No Good Buddies Posted by Duke De Mondo on August 12, 2004 08:06 PM (See all posts by Duke De Mondo) Filed under: Music, Music: Country and Americana It's hard to find a reason not to like Guts And Gravel, the debut release from New England trio Dan Daniels And Your No Good Buddies. Whilst offering nothing what could be described as particularly innovative or "challenging", it is nothing if not a fantastically, infectiously good-natured slab of humour, compassion and, best of all, a bunch a damn fine tunes. The press malarkey draws comparisons to, amongst others, The Barenaked Ladies, but to these ears, ie, the prodigiously knowledgeable ears of The Duke, they sound more akin to the likes of The Mavericks, even if Your No Good Buddies are, thankfully, infinitely preferable to those sons a bitches what yack on about "I wanna dance the night away, is what" and so on. It's a country music what is pretty far removed from, say, the melancholic stylings of Whiskeytown or early Wilco, but it's no less worthy of praise. Three middle-aged fellas making music for no other reason than the enjoyment stemming from such, and the fact that, having played together since summer 2002, they realised that shit, man, this stuff is kinda good, is the crux of the matter. The record, available through the band's Web Site, is a melding of commercial country, rockabilly stylings, flamenco flourishes, all with the mood of the most enjoyable party this side of the one on the telly what has five folks acting like the ones from The Dawson Creek or whatever. Despite the vibe of frenzied revelry, however, there are weighty issues to discuss. The third track, for instance, rests on the theological poser; "What would Jesus drive, if he were alive?" Dan Daniels and Co. don't have any particular answer, but assert that it's probably not "no big SUV". Outlaw clichés are also given a going over and emerge surprisingly fresh, like in the title track, what tells of a wife grabbing the nearest pistol and blasting her husband out of jail, whilst Pierre, Bobby And Marie tells of a bloodied feud between two folks on account of they both wanna sex with the same lady. Do It While We Can takes a particularly idiosyncratic stance with regards the ol' hellfire-and-damnation country gospel, noting that since there won't be no "Drinkin'" nor "Dancin" nor "Smokin" nor even "Fornication" when the Lord comes a-calling, best to do as much as possible right now. I ain't never heard those Louvin Brothers telling me shit like that, preferring the old "You'll go blind, The Duke!" or "You'll be damned, is what, if you for a second think about smiling while you do that!". Mary Jane rolls in on a kind of Caribbean vibe, and goes on to become a rather lovely treatise on the old "unrequitement" and what not. Guts And Gravel is among the most vibrant sounding records The Duke has enjoyed in ages. How come these "baby-boomers" sound so energised and in love with their music, when folks half their age sound like the kinda miserable, self-obsessed sons a bitches that always wanted to thrust terrible poetry into your face at high school? How come a song by the name of (I Been Eatin') Onions has a fella grinning from ear to ear, has a fella believing that yes, onions are the most worthy of topics for any song written anywhere by anyone to be dealing with? Final track Rock N' Roll opens with a Jerry Lee Lewis bout of the ol' piano thrashing, and goes on to get concerned with the nostalgia and what not, and memories of that there musical genre what is also the title. It's whole hell of the fun, is what The Duke would announce, and brings to a close a record what don't have even the slightest hint of a cruddy number among it. I'm gonna be keeping both eyes on these fellas, but not in a way what implies I find them sexually attractive, although I'm sure they're very enticing to the ladies, but in a way what means I'm looking forward to the next record. Good work, Dan Daniels And Your No Good Buddies. Guts And Gravel can be bought, or inspected via the Audio Streams, at www.yngb.com Thank folks CHECK OUT THE DUKE AT www.mondoirlando.com" OR www.blogcritics.org |
| July 09, 2004 : Your No Good Buddies, Saturday, the Harp By: Larry Parnass, Daily Hampshire Gazette ROCKING REMINDER: Daniel B. Daniels and his buddies Dan Margolis and Shawn Mansfield will fire up an old-fashioned rock ’n roll party Saturday at the Harp in Amherst to mark the release of their first CD, “Guts and Gravel,” as the band called Dan Daniels and Your No Good Buddies. The easy, rhythmic sound is full of echoes of good and bad times which, because of the company of friends, manages to turn out for the good. The title track is about lean times, beefs with a sheriff and a court appearance: “The judge pounded down his gavel / Said, ‘You’re living on guts and gravel.’” Daniels plays rhythm guitar, Margolis handles lead and Mansfield thumbs the bass. All join in the vocals, which tend toward the mischievous: What would Jesus drive if he were alive? No big SUV, the size of a tree. No gas-guzzling hog, making lots of smog. An efficient machine to keep God’s air clean. |
| July 08, 2004 : The Dan Band By: Kendra Thurlow, The Valley Advocate “Hi, I’m Shawn, this is my band-mate Dan, and this is my other band-mate Dan” – at least that’s what I’d say if I was Shawn Mansfield, bassist and backup singer of Your No Good Buddies, otherwise known as YNGB (not to be confused with NRBQ), and in a band with Dan Daniels (lead vocals and rhythm guitar) and Dan Margolis (electric guitar and mandolin). The three yokels have been jamming together since 2002, playing exactly the kind of music they look like they would play – a stripped-down, roots Americana kind of rock. This Saturday they’ll be playing a slew of songs, including some jocular ditties like “I’ve Been Eatin’ Onions”, and “Do It While We Can” (‘cause let’s face it, these boys ain’t getting any younger) in celebration of the release of their new CD. Better check these guys out before one of them has a heart attack and you lose your chance. July 10, The Harp, 163 Sunderland Rd., North Amherst, 548-6900. |
| July 08, 2004 : Daniels hosting CD release party By: Mary Kronholm, The Country Journal BLANDFORD – There may be a Grammy in the making for Dan Daniels, Blandford’s long-time country/folk artist. He and his band, Your No Good Buddies (YNGB) are hosting a CD release party at The Harp in North Amherst Saturday at 9:30 pm. The CD, Guts and Gravel, takes its name from one of the 12 songs on the recording. Your No Good Buddies (YNGB) is a band with their roots in the past and branches reaching for the future. This group of baby boomers plays their own interpreted brand of “American (sic) Roots Rock”. Their sound comes from the influence of a set of diverse artists including Willie Nelson, The Band, Credence Clearwater Revival (CCR) and The Beatles while adding thought provoking lyrics and a humorous twist tomuch of their music. Dan Daniels, lead vocalist, rhythm guitar, and songwriter, along with Dan Margolis of Northampton, electric lead guitar, mandolin, and vocalist, and Shawn Mansfield, bass and vocalist, make up the band. uGoodlookingstrippedsingers I Looking Q Desentralisasyon%20na%20dekonstruksyon Bikini Es Tag Writer%27s%20block Good Looking Stripped Singers Dan Daniels and Your No Good Buddies - Press and Reviewsb Good Looking Stripped Singers mGoodlookingstrippedsingers I Looking Q Desentralisasyon%20na%20dekonstruksyon Bikini Es Tag Writer%27s%20block Good Looking Stripped Singers Dan Daniels and Your No Good Buddies - Press and Reviewsq e Hardcore |