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#COSMICCOUNTRY SELLING OUT SHOWS ALREADY!

I wanted to update y’all on how the tour has been! We just did our third weekend out. I’ve gotten several new guitars from Fender like the new Acoustasonic and Fender Ultra Telecaster. I also am messing around with the PRS Baritone SE model. Rockit Music Gear is making all of my straps. One even has LED! DANG! I’m using my old 1966 Fender Pro Reverb again. It is the familiar things that are the home for where our True Tone is discovered. We have a BRAND NEW LIVE CD for sale at the shows; high quality bootlegs called “Danny’s Picks Vol. 1,” just like Dick’s Picks, but in my own way. We’ve sold out 2 of the 8 shows we’ve played. We’ve hit the target of 100+ people on over half of them. We are seeing new faces, familiar friends, and overall community growth in each town I visit. The #COSMICCOUNTRY Club is real. Y’all are making the shows everything they can be. I’m recording each show and making them all available once the tour is over. For now, we have Psychedelic Fractal 1080P videos you can watch on YouTube! For those of y’all that like to get lost! Thank you ATL and Raleigh for selling us out. I love everyone and feel like a superhero each day to be able to add color into the lives of everyone who comes to listen. It’s my greatest honor. Check out the tour videos on my Instagram as well to catch up if you’re out of the loop!❇️🤠❇️

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2LND8lTNOCqe7r0e2mJ_6g?view_as=subscriber *** Fractal Video Here 👈

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Episode #7: Mark Agnesi

Mark Agnesi is the Director of Brand Experience for Gibson Brands. Known for his concept of “Guitar of the Day,” YouTube series, he is a supremely large part of guitar culture. His understanding of content, creativity, imagination, and action, is one that I find to be supremely insightful to any creative or partner in an endeavor involved in the guitar space and market as a whole. 

We also talk about my mind melting time at Dead and Company NYE 2020, my new record, and the upcoming #COSMICCOUNTRY tour!

Listen on ALL podcast platforms now!

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Is DD More a Hippie or a Cowboy?! The answer is #COSMICCOUNTRY!

Have you wanted to know why Guitar Hero inspired me to play real guitar? Or how I got into the Grateful Dead? If I am more hippie than a cowboy? Well, darn, you’ve found yourself in the right place, yeehaw! Giddy up and read this spectacular interview I did right before we start the first #COSMICCOUNTRY tour of this decade! ❇️🤠

#COSMICCOUNTRY Tickets Available on this site in the TOUR section! ❇️🤠

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Daniel and REVERB collaborate for an epic video series!

https://reverb.com/news/videos-daniel-donatos-cosmic-country-guitar-lessons

This is a series of videos, free lessons, that cover an array of topics:

  1. What is the #COSMICCOUNTRY sound?
  2. What have I learned from playing over 1,000 bar gigs?
  3. The difference between blues and country?
  4. What have I learned from my heroes that I have met and jammed with?
  5. How do I learn to actually play around the whole guitar?

All of these things are covered here. For free. In these Reverb lessons. Drop a comment on those videos and let them know what the #COSMICCOUNTRY CLUB is all about! I love y’all! ❇️🤠

❇️🤠Make sure to get tickets to the SPRING TOUR! ❇️🤠

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Incredible Interview With MUSIC MECCA!

This is an incredible interview in which I discuss how I went from playing on the streets for tips to touring around the world, the upcoming “#COSMICCOUNTRY INTO THIS DECADE” Spring Tour, and why I love The Grateful Dead and Country Music so much! Thank you Ridge Bethea, Luke Levenson of New Tone Media, and everyone else on my Cosmic Crew for helping my dreams manifest into pixels and reality.

❇️🤠 Get tickets on the TOUR tab of this very site! ❇️🤠

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Daniel is in the biggest Fender campaign of the year!

The Acoustasonic guitars are changing the game. It is an honor of a lifetime to be apart of telling the story of this instrument alongside Tyler Bryant! Watch it here! Recorded at Sound City!

❇️🤠 Make sure to grab a ticket, or two, to my #COSMICCOUNTRY Spring tour — Into This Decade — before we SELL IT OUT. Tickets on the Tour tab! ❇️🤠

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Guitar.com says Daniel is TOP 50 in the world!

This one is crazy. Top 50 in the world? #5 according to them. So grateful! Give it a read…

❇️🤠 The #COSMICCOUNTRY Into This Decade Tour begins real soon. Some venues are almost sold out! 30+ shows! Come on out to a show and let’s take a selfie! Tickets available on the TOUR section of this website.❇️🤠

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Guitar World says Daniel is Top 10 this year!

Guitar World. The magazine we all know. We all love. They say I am top 10 for this entire year of 2020. How fantastic is that? What an absolute HONOR. I used to read this magazine in study hall. Now, me and my #COSMICCOUNTRY self are in it.

❇️🤠While you’re here, you’ll want to get tickets to my upcoming #COSMICCOUNTRY Spring Tour — Into This Decade — over on the ‘Tour’ section on this site. Tickets are going fast and the venues are small. ❇️🤠

https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/these-are-the-10-guitarists-you-need-to-hear-in-2020

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Episode #6: Garry Tallent

Although a household name to any Rock N’ Roll enthusiast, Garry Tallent is largely a behind the scenes entity, and he likes it that way. This interview is currently the only long form audio dialogue of Tallent’s initial foray into music and love for Rock N’ Roll. The longest running member of the E Street Band, since its start in 1971, Tallent has kept his love for music strong and youthful and is releasing music coming in May 2019 through Deville records, his self founded label. On this episode, with the most charming, humble, and definitive sentiment, he discusses the many ups and downs of his professional career, as well as the concept of how low expectations and the need for adventure can unlock the whole world to you if you’re willing to just believe and move forward. Tallent and Donato also discuss his experience of moving to Nashville in 1989, and how one can adapt to the ever-changing tides in the music industry. This interview is currently the only long form audio dialogue of Tallent’s initial foray into music and love for Rock N’ Roll.

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Episode #5: Joe Robinson

Joe Robinson is a fingerstyle guitarist, singer, writer, producer, and entrepreneur. He is also Australian and wakes up at 4am when he doesn’t tour. He won Australia’s Got Talent at age 16. He then took the money, moved to the US, started making his own music independently, found mentorship from Tommy Emmanuel, and has been going hard ever since. More than 10 years in, he is touring hundreds of days a year, creating online learning platforms, and creating his own music entirely in a self contained way by producing and releasing independently. What we learn from Joe is how to learn, ways you can seek mentorship in others, overcoming hardship and being a champion because of that, as well as other heady topics any thinkers will enjoy. He’s one of the best guitarists of our time and is a magnificent being in his own right.