All of Darryl Holter’s recordings are now available to stream or purchase on Bandcamp
Darryl Holter has made his latest album Roots & Branches available to stream and purchase on Bandcamp - Along with his entire back catalogue, including Radio Songs, West Bank Gone, Crooked Hearts and more, now easily accessible. Visit the entire catalogue for stream or purchase on https://darrylholter.bandcamp.com/ Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current brand of Americana music draws from country, blues and folk traditions and often tells stories about people, places and events.
“Hadestown” is Front-Runner for Tony Awards
Update - "Hadestown" Wins 8 Tony Awards Anais Mitchell won a Tony for best musical score and Hadestown won for best musical. 8 Tony Awards in all! - DH "Hadestown" is Front-Runner for Tony Awards The brilliant singer-songwriter, Anaïs Mitchell, who sang with me on my Roots and Branches album last year, was just nominated for two Tony Awards for writing the book and musical score for Hadestown, a folk-blues musical playing on Broadway. The unconventional play, a reimagining of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, earned 14 nominations, more than any other musical, and is a front-runner to ... [Read More]
Roots & Branches Album Review by Goldmine Magazine
Darryl Holter, Roots & Branches Album Review by Goldmine Magazine by Mike Greenblatt | November 2018 The Roots & Branches (213 Music) of singer/songwriter/author Darryl Holter go deep, so deep, in fact, he needed two bands to flesh out his vision. The first is a rustic acoustic “Roots” band which features a Woody Guthrie paean of sorts, “Highway 66” and a cover of The Carter Family’s 1936 “No Depression In Heaven” (as well as his original answer song “New Depression.”) The electric “Branches” band covers two by Tom Petty and ends with the hidden original “20/20 Vision” which tries to ... [Read More]
Roots & Branches Album Review by Country Music People
Darryl Holter, Roots & Branches Album Review by Country Music People Magazine by Paul Riley
Roots & Branches Album Review by Chalked Up Country
Darryl Holter, Roots & Branches Album Review by Chalked Up Country by Nolan Conghaile | August 22, 2018 Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and activist Darryl Holter is all about relationships, both today and in the 60s. As the Vietnam war escalated, Holter was attending the University of Minnesota, he became involved in the anti-war movement. This led to protest songs by people like Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs. In graduate school, in Madison, Wisconsin, he worked as a teaching assistant and got involved in organizing a union. Soon he was doing old labor union songs and writing a few of his ... [Read More]