Carissa's Wierd Brooke Daniels' Tiny Broken Fingers

The Sweetwater Sessions started out as a recording workshop at the gorgeous Sweetwater Studios in Fort Wayne, Indiana. But after a couple of preparatory conversations with co-producer Mark Hornsby,, we had an idea: - If we’re gonna have a musical dream team assembled and hanging out in a world class studio, why not tack on a couple extra days and see if we can record a retrospective of JBro tunes for a visceral “live, in the studio” record. And that’s what we did. Back together with the team from Midnight. Hallelujah., plus Sean Driscoll, who’s been touring with me for about 6 years we had a really great organic revisiting of some beloved music.

This is a beautiful selection of arias from Handel’s oratorios composed in the latish 1740s. Each one is a gem and David Daniels again proves himself the leading “operatic” countertenor of our day. He possesses one of the few countertenor voices that might be called “sensual”, not to mention one of the few with any respectable volume. He even puts pressure on it occasionally–as opposed, say, to Drew Minter or Alfred Deller, who aim (aimed) for a diaphonous sound.

–Robert Levine

Whiskey is a 1977 LP re-issue of the 1974 album Way Down Yonder. Presumably, the album was re-named and marketed in 1977 to capitalize on the popularity of the country rock and outlaw country genres. Whiskey, however, quickly disappeared into obscurity only to re-surface as a long overdue CD reissue on the outstanding Wounded Bird Records in 2008. Because of these circumstances and its long absence from print, Whiskey is somewhat of a "lost" Charle Daniels Band album.