Besides Daniel: New Singles on the Way

Courtesy of Danny Brewer

Danny Brewer, professionally known as Besides Daniel, grew up around Atlanta, Georgia and moved into the city when he was 20, where he became heavily involved in the art scene and the singer-songwriter community. 

“I spent a lot of time gigging, playing shows at Eddie's Attic and Under the Couch, which was a venue on the Georgia Tech campus back in the day. We played the vinyl a lot and some of the smaller clubs. The Earl was a good spot for us too. My life was living and breathing music and art,” Brewer said. 

Brewer’s first national tour was in 2009 and he went on to tour the country a few times while in his 20s. 

In 2013, he released his fourth record “This Marvelous Grief.” 

“That was kind of a big record for me. It was pretty ambitious and it got a lot of good press,” Brewer said. “I would walk into Starbucks randomly and hear my songs which was kind of cool for a few years, and there's a few other pretty nice, high profile successes out of that record.”

“It was just kind of a fun record that actually sort of worked and got a little bit of traction in the world,” he said. “I ended up getting lined up with a management company and developing a relationship with them, and so after I released that record, I went on tour and traveled again promoting the record.” 

While on this tour he met his now wife in a bar in Wyoming. 

“That was the summer of 2013, and then a year later we got married and started having babies. So now I have a six year old girl and a four year old boy and we live in Wyoming,” he said. 

Since his last album release in 2018 he’s been working his “butt off learning how to be a dad.” 

“I've been writing a lot of music and I haven't really done a lot with music in the past few years. Just switching gears having a young family but I'm starting to write again and record again and kind of put my stuff back out there,” he said. 

“My writing’s matured a lot, and I'm writing obviously from a much different perspective now. So it's cool.”

Brewer says he hopes he will release some new singles this summer. 

“I have a few things in the works. I have a lot of unfinished songs, and I'm hoping this summer I'll get to release more singles. I'm probably not going to put a record out anytime soon, but I do want to start putting out more singles,” he said. 

He says releasing a few singles could be a good way to remind people he is still here and making music. 

“Releasing singles seems to be what everybody's doing anyway,” he said.