One of our pleasant tasks at Tracks and Tracks is to find little-known artists who have the ability to make your lives that little bit better! Fight blandness and a pointless life by filling your shelves and iPods with as eclectic and extensive a music selection as you can!
I discovered this fucker in a charity shop in Bristol. I expected absolute crap, but the album's a gem. Dan can croon with the best of them - if he'd been born in LA rather than TI he'd have been one of the Rat Pack.
He's Seaman Dan from Queensland's Torres Straits. He first recorded at the age of 70. The first track on Follow the Sun has echoes of the Kooks, others have an Hawaiian or blues feel. All are uplifting and life affirming. Let's just hope Paul Simon doesn't 'discover' him!
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