About Danny

Danny has been playing guitar in Southern California for over 45 years. He has played, toured and recorded with some of the best musicians on the local and the national scene; Dave Alvin, Chris Gaffney, Walter Trout, Mike Reilly, Gregg Allman, Greg Leisz, John Doe, Jim Lauderdale, Doug Livingston, Danny Timms, Garth Hudson, Joe Walsh, Skip Edwards, Jann Browne, Chuck Prophet, Gary Brandin, Greg Copeland, Wyman Reese, Walter Clevenger, Rick Shea.

'Leave My Little Girl Alone'
Recorded live at Matt Barnes & Jann Browne’s wedding. Danny & three other wedding guests (some of whom had never met) took the stage and pulled this off pretty well—there might have been some drinking involved. Danny doesn't dig in until after the keyboard solo...

'Black Rose of Texas'
Danny on electric slide guitar, acoustic guitar & backing vocals. From Dave Alvin's 'Eleven Eleven' CD.

"Ott comes off as a guitar hero of the first degree, able to serve up everything from flashing acoustic runs to notes that fall like teardrops on a honky-tonk floor. A marvelous player, he has more delicious tones and shadings at his disposal than a gambling cheat has face cards...his sizzling soloing simultaneously rings like a bell and tears like a saw."
-Mike Boehm, The Los Angeles Times

"Ott's playing is always strikingly melodic, as economical or wildly expansive as the moment dictates."
-Randy Lewis, The Los Angeles Times

"Danny Ott. In his many years with Chris Gaffney & the Cold Hard Facts, Ott established himself as OC's best utility player: not just excelling at Bakersfield twang, blistering rock, low-riding R&B, Norteno two-step, and everything else Gaffney threw at him, but also making it all his own with a drive and lyricism unmatched by most stadium-filling guitarists."
-OC Weekly, naming Danny as one of five 'Essential OC Guitar Players'