SPOTLIGHT
DANNY MILLER
HAILS FROM QUEENS, NEW YORK USA
PLAYS IN LEWIS DEL MAR
SOUNDS LIKE TRANSCENDENTAL, HIGH-CONCEPT ALT-ROCK
LATEST DROP AUGUST (LP OUT NOW VIA FADER)
What’s your current go-to guitar?
I have an Alvarez Parlor acoustic, which is currently the guitar I play onstage and record with. I came across it because I was travelling with an older Martin 000, but that guitar was getting too beaten up with all the flying, and the maintenance costs were starting to add up. I wanted something with great tone and resonance, but that I didn’t have to be precious about. I bought my first Alvarez Parlor in 2016 when we were touring heavily, and a couple months after copping it, I smashed it during a performance on television. I walked right into a guitar store the next day and bought a new one for $200. Can’t go wrong at that price!
How did you initially fall in love with the instrument?
I fell in love with guitar through learning about latin folk music. My family is Nicaraguan, and my first guitar teacher, Amilcar Cruz, was also from
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