This is Path to Peace, the twelfth and last single from the upcoming CD NARROW AND STEEP by San Franscisco based singer-songwriter Denny Brown. 

12 singles have been released in a RANDOM ORDER, each with its own unique cover, leading up to a full digital release in the beginning of 2016. In addition, a few short films have been released.

"I am interested in timelesss music. Not nostalgia but a sound that defies to be part of a certain period. Music that is hard to pin down when it was first recorded. When a sound, a song structure, a melody feels both of the past and present, and when they melt into one another, it can be forever."
Denny Brown San Francisco 2016

Single #1 Path to Peace

About five years ago, I had this thought, I envisioned a group of musicians that were heading to Michigan (Detroit, Pontiac and Flint) to get work in the automobile factories after the Second World War.  I thought about a group including real and imagined musicians.

A banjo player like Doc Boggs, slide guitarist Bukka White, harmonica player like Lazy Lester, maybe James Jameson’s (The Wondrous Motown bass player) uncle or father. For some reason, they all met in Dayton, Ohio at the house of a relative of Paul Laurence Dunbar, the great American poet.
Over a few great Sunday afternoon get togethers, a totally beautiful, bluesy pre-rock, pre-Motown sound was created.  To recreate this dream, Erik Nielsen and I put together this imaginary band and created a number of songs with these “players”.

‘Path to Peace’ is a good example of my dream, with a lyric from Paul Dunbar.  We used an acoustic National resonator guitar, the slide part was created on a Gibson Hawaiian’ lap steel guitar (made in Kalamazoo, Michigan).

Simple and elegant.