{"id":18098,"date":"2014-09-15T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2014-09-15T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:10:51","slug":"meet-the-bakers-dan-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2014\/09\/15\/meet-the-bakers-dan-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Bakers: Dan K"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I became obsessed with music when I was around 11 years old and my brothers left behind their collection of cassette tapes when they went on to college. They were mostly classic rock albums – Led Zeppelin I, II, and III, Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and everything in between.<\/p>\n

I had a musical background already taking piano lessons, but it wasn’t long before I picked up my mom’s nylon string guitar and started learning how to play – first the chords, then on to as many solos as I could learn, one note at a time.<\/p>\n

Eventually I studied more formally, taking up blues, jazz, and classical guitar, but once I realized I wouldn’t *quite* be the next Jimi Hendrix, I got my feet wet writing songs of my own. Since then, I’ve recorded a handful of EPs (not to be confused with the other Dan Kaplan, who writes and records solo harmonica albums), a full length album, and I just finished mixing my first full length album, Chasing Daylight, with my band, Magnolia. You can listen to the first single here.<\/p>\n