Dani Wilde - Ghetto Child

Continuing the theme of female blues guitarists (which will be expanded a few artists down the line to include vocalists who don't play guitar as well), here's Dani Wilde.

I selected this video to start Dani's set because she talks a bit about some of her background before launching into the Johnny Copeland tune Ghetto Child, more recently recorded by Johnny's daughter Shemekia. Now, the reason I wanted to start with Dani's talk was so that the first thing you hear from her is her soft voice and her accent as she talks about working with school children in Kenya.

Because, in that way, the impact of her singing voice is all the more amazing.

For reference, Dani's debut album, released in 2008, is Heal My Blues, and we'll get to a song or two from that disc over the next few days.