'Keys to the Highway' features Daniel's barnstorming boogie as well as exquisite sensibility, plus featuring some phenomenal Friends - Alan Barnes (saxes); Dave Briggs (guitar & vox); Lester Brown (trumpet); Roger Cotton (Hammond); Matt Empson (piano); Alan Glen (harmonica); Peter Miles (drums); Jaelee Small (voxes); and Alan Vincent (guitar).
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BBC RADIO 2 - PAUL JONES UK
'When Daniel Smith releases an album, it's always a good thing... Keys To The Highway is a very, very fine album.'
BLUES IN BRITAIN UK
'The world's greatest Anglo-Scottish-Dutch-Indonesian boogie pianist... a serious challenger to Jools Holland as the UK's number 1....'
BLUES REVIEW USA 'For jump blues, look no further than The Daniel Smith Blues Band.'
LA HORA DEL BLUES SPAIN
'Daniel Smith is a musician with a great future in front of him… he moves with an easy fluency… his CD has nine stupendous numbers, all his own compositions… he has the ability to compose magnificent pieces - the product of a fine musical sensibility.'
[From radio review of 'Keys to the Highway'.]
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AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS 5 British Blues Foundation nominations, 'Best UK Blues Keyboardist'; nominated Jools Holland-presented 'Boisdale London : Best Boogie Woogie Pianist of the Year' 2017; received a special award from MS Society UK for his fund-raising work for the charity via CD sales and special concerts.
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THE DANIEL SMITH BLUES BAND
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