If you didn’t catch Part 1 of our guest artist feature with For All The Girls, Dan Danburry reinvented himself as a musician and found what he was looking for. This is Part 2.

What’s going on now?

The results with the Damien Fairchild/For All The Girls project were similar to my previous experiences, so I sadly don’t have any great lesson to share, except: “Honesty is the best policy, but it’s really fun to fib.”

When music blogs write about the music I’ve recorded, I appreciate it immensely because all I really want at this point is to simply share my music with people in hopes it will be a positive influence in their life. But personally, I still feel completely unconnected with humanity. Outside of the amazing relationship I have with my wife, I feel alone. Being a musician is like signing yourself up for objectification. It doesn’t matter if its praise or spite, when someone simplifies a complex human being it’s degrading.

As a human being I can be forgiving and kind and generous. I can also be impatient, moody and a complete brat. But I’m not going to be anything other than what I am no matter how people may see me.

When I’m along in my room recording songs, I have fun because it’s something I like to do. But when I meet people and they speak of my music or my songs or even me as an individual as if we’re friends because of it, it can be uncomfortable. Because I write a song with my own ideas and people hear those songs and get different ideas but feel like they’re feeling the same way I am.

So I guess I’m still stuck behind a one way mirror, putting on a play for an audience I can’t see or connect with, but at least I’m having fun.

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