| Something I Said - David Daniels Retires Talkin' | | | | he shelving the band? "People evolve and artists |
| Roots Crew | | | | evolve," says Daniels. "In that evolution, |
| Dwight Hobbes - Twin Cities Daily Planet archives | | | | sometimes one realizes that the form used in the |
| There's bad news and there's good news. Rasta | | | | past doesn't quite fit where one is at today. This |
| Bard David Daniels is pulling the plug on the Talkin' | | | | is the case with me with the Talkin' Roots Crew." |
| Roots Crew—but he's going to keep writing | | | | Okay, fine. David Daniels is still David Daniels, |
| and performing solo and, possibly, as Reggae | | | | whether it's with these guys or not. For the past |
| Ensemble Theatre. | | | | few years, he's been woodshedding, coming up |
| Daniels has done his damnedest to defy | | | | with a solo piece he calls Kowtown. "It's a series |
| convention and not come up too badly. He keeps | | | | of vignettes set in 1980s Denver, Colorado. One |
| running out of venues to play (because you never | | | | departure from previous works is that Kowtown |
| know when he'll break out with some herb on | | | | contains no reggae music and no references to |
| stage) yet he keeps finding new ones. He can't | | | | marijuana. It's progressed to the point where I |
| make the mainstream press to save his | | | | expect to present it in Denver sometime this |
| dreadlocks, but soon as word gets around that | | | | year." That ain't all. "In addition to Kowtown, |
| he's performing somewhere, it's standing room | | | | there's been another play in the hopper and I |
| only. Forget about finding his solo CD, Talkin' | | | | have various storytelling projects in the works. I |
| Roots. It's sold out of two printings. However, he | | | | can't say at this time when the public will see |
| moved on to record 4:20 Report as David Daniels | | | | them." So, making it down to this show would be |
| and the Talk Roots Crews; you can find that | | | | a smart move. |
| record at shops around Minneapolis. | | | | I'm sworn to divulge any possible conflict of |
| With him for the upcoming Talkin' Roots Crew | | | | interest. Accordingly: I've opened for David Daniels |
| farewell show are Van Nixon, Nate Stevens, Ike | | | | a couple times and he's doing liner notes for my |
| Russell, and Dan Boldt. Should prove to be a lively | | | | in-the-works CD. The Talkin' Roots Farewell Show |
| night. Daniels's grassroot-spawned popularity has | | | | is Sunday, April 19th, 8 p.m. at the Acadia Café. |
| never been greater; he packed the Acadia | | | | No cover. Do you need to be told to get there |
| Café to the rafters late last year. Why, then, is | | | | early? |