The Seattle Times – Jeff Daniels plays the blues in Kirkland

Jack Stone Truitt
Seattle Times staff writer
November 6, 2015

You’ve probably seen Jeff Daniels act, but have you heard him sing? And no, the “Mockingbird” scene in “Dumb and Dumber” doesn’t count.

Having written hundreds of songs and played almost as many gigs over the past 12 years, Daniels knows his music can stand on its own.

“I love watching their heads explode,” he says. “The audience going, ‘Oh my god. I had no idea that you could sing, that you could play, that the band is this good … I get the same feeling and reward out of what we do with the band and playing as I do between ‘action’ and ‘cut.’ I just have been doing the action-to-cut thing a lot longer.”

Daniels will be at the Kirkland Performance Center — alongside his son Ben and the Ben Daniels Band — on Nov. 12, playing a blend of acoustic blues-rock that he hopes will make you laugh one moment and cry the next.

Read the full article here: http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/jeff-daniels-plays-the-blues/