Daniel Donato: “If I want to be a guitar player in 2019, I need to have a sound you can recognize in less than a second”

(Image credit: Saverio Donato)

Daniel Donato was 14 when he first saw the Don Kelley Band at Robert’s Western World in Nashville. He’d recently played on stage for the first time, and he was hooked. After a full day busking on his Taylor 114ce acoustic, behind a handmade sign reading, "Saving up for a Telecaster", his dad took him to see Kelley perform at Robert’s, the legendary honky tonk on Lower Broadway.

“I remember thinking this timing makes so much sense,” Donato says. “I need to be in this band.”

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