Dan Wecht is a slide powerhouse in the Nashville music community, playing the honky-tonks of lower Broadway (including the legendary Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge), recording in studios around the city, and touring the U.S. with blues and country bands. Dan forges a bridge between blues and country music using his slide as a creative alternative to the pedal-steel guitar so prevalent in country music.

 

Growing up listening to blues and jam bands, most notably The Allman Brothers Band, Dan transcribed the improvised solos note-for-note, refining his ears into pitch-perfect machines. 

Dan’s style reflects the influence of blues greats from Elmore James to Derek Trucks. However, as a modern recording guitarist and performer, his influences and playing abilities don’t stop there; rock and roll, jazz, and country chicken-pickin’ can all be heard resonating from his strings.

 

After completing a B.S. in Sound Recording Technology and Jazz Guitar from Duquesne University, Dan moved to Nashville to pursue his dream of playing music full time. It wasn’t long before he was on the road with artists like Billboard-charting singer Lauren Anderson and blues guitarist/writer Meg Williams, country artist Brett Westgrove, as well as his own band Mercury Blonde, playing at places such as the Hodag Country Festival as indirect support for Jon Pardi, Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, and Knuckleheads in Kansas City.

 

With these artists and bands, among others, he has recorded at coveted and historic studios like FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama where artists such as Duane Allman, Otis Redding, and Etta James have written and recorded some of their most revered songs. In Nashville, his band was recorded by Wes Little, drummer for Robben Ford, at his own studio Coop DeVille.