There are few things more potentially derailing to a rising artist’s career than imposter syndrome, that nagging sense that you’re just not good enough to warrant a seat at the table. But Nashville ...

To celebrate the release of his new album last Friday, Daniel Donato played three Nashville shows in one day — with a solo pop-up at a record store, his band’s headlining show at Ryman Auditorium and ...

The 25-year-old guitar prodigy, storyteller, songwriter, and vocalist, Daniel Donato premieres his new single, “Justice,” today on American Songwriter. Somewhere between traditional outlaw country, on ...

For Daniel Donato, Horizons is more than just the title of his latest album. It’s also the location where the guitar wizard and his unique brand of “cosmic country” currently reside — right on the ...

Daniel Donato’s earliest memories are set in the northeast, where he was born and where his parents were raised. But as a toddler, the Donato family moved to Nashville. When he was 12 years old, ...

In the 1960s, a wavier, hazier side of country music emerged where the hair was longer and the sounds drew from a brighter color palette. Cosmic country merged the traditional American roots music of ...

Those searching for a guitar shredder with country twang and Grateful Dead roots need look no further. Twenty-five year old Daniel Donato fills that bill, and more, on his appropriately titled debut.

Last night, May 1, Daniel Donato breezed into the Crescent City for his third-annual Cosmic NOLA celebration. In the ramp-up of his spring tour, the singer-songwriter, ace guitarist and Cosmic Country ...

The first time I saw Daniel Donato play live, he already seemed like an arena star. It didn’t matter that the show, which took place in late October, actually occurred inside a sold-out, 600-person ...

Nashville-based guitarist Daniel Donato brought his Cosmic Country tour to The Drake on Thursday, Feb. 8 for a sold-out, genre bending plunge into southern psychedelia. The night marked Donato’s first ...

When the singer and guitar-slinger counts his band in, they could go anywhere — and often do. Donato arrives at a "feeling pitched between the retro country associated with Sturgill Simpson and Chris ...

For a few years, there was no more thrilling guitar player in the Broadway honky-tonks than Daniel Donato. The fresh-faced kid — he was just 16 — was the sharpshooting sideman in the Don Kelley Band, ...