Danny Barnes

Musician
Best known for Mandolin

Danny Barnes is a mandolin player and harmony singer who played in the Charlie Sizemore Band from 1996 to 2010. He was part of the new band Sizemore introduced on In My View (Rebel, 1996), with Will Parsons on banjo and John Berry on bass, and sang the high harmony part throughout the album.

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He was still with Sizemore more than a decade later. On Good News (Rounder, 2007), recorded at Tom T. & Dixie’s studio in Franklin, Tennessee, he played mandolin and, on some tracks, banjo, with Matt DeSpain on Dobro and John Pennell on bass, and he sang harmony on Hugh Prestwood’s “Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart.” He played mandolin and banjo again on Sizemore’s next Rounder album, Heartache Looking for a Home (2010), on which Ralph Stanley was among the harmony singers.

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