1. Daniel Ira Kalb was an American blues guitarist and vocalist.
12 Facts About Danny Kalb
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Danny Kalb was an original member of the 1960s group the Blues Project.
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Danny Kalb was a protege of Dave Van Ronk and became a solo performer and a session musician, performing with such folk singers as Judy Collins, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan.
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Danny Kalb joined Van Ronk's Ragtime Jug Stompers in 1963.
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At the age of 15 Danny Kalb formed the band Gay Notes and performed with Bob Dylan on a WBAI-FM concert broadcast in 1961.
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In 1963 Danny Kalb performed in the Ragtime Jug Stompers with his mentor Dave Van Ronk.
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In 1964 Danny Kalb played second guitar on Phil Ochs's album All the News That's Fit to Sing and in 1964 appeared on Judy Collins's Fifth Album.
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In 1965, Danny Kalb formed the Blues Project with Steve Katz, Andy Kulberg, Roy Blumenfeld and Tommy Flanders.
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Danny Kalb was fairly quiet for the next twenty years, but joined Al Kooper for a Blues Project reunion, recorded at the Bottom Line in 1996.
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The Danny Kalb Trio recorded I'm Gonna Live the Life I Sing About in 2008, which received critical acclaim in the blues media.
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Danny Kalb continued to play the vintage early 1960s Gibson J-200 with which he began his career.
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Danny Kalb used a Mexican-made Martin acoustic-electric and a Greco Les Paul-style electric guitar.