Name: Whatever You Need
Brand: Johnny Ray Daniels

Bonus disc

Catalogue number

BTRC025

Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-13

Signed copies

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

854255000250

Total Cap

BTRC024

2022-05-06

854255000243

Artist

Johnny Ray Daniels

Genre GB

Blues / Gospel

Label GB

Fat Possum

<p>Fat Possum Records is a label that was established in 1991 with the sole purpose of recording R.L. Burnside. Over time, it evolved into a mission to discover and record the last remaining original bluesmen before they passed away. Despite facing various challenges such as difficult personalities, limited songs, and a raw sound that didn't fit the mainstream blues market, these artists possessed immense talent and truly lived the blues.</p>

<p>In recent years, Fat Possum has expanded its catalog to include newer indie blues rock bands alongside their traditional offerings.</p>

Johnny Ray Daniels was born in 1946 in the Beaver Dam area Greenville, North Carolina, one of seven children. By age 20, Daniels and a group of local friends started up a rock 'n' roll band called the Soul Twisters.  One night, Daniels' life changed forever. He was standing on stage at a white nightclub in the neighboring city of Wilson, looking out over the faces of the audience dancing and drinking. "I saw them just like a picture," he recalls. "In the blink of an eye, it was like I could hear the Lord saying, 'You're in the wrong place.'" He played out the rest of his booking obligations with the Soul Twisters, and then quit the band.  After leaving his gear and his guitar with his bandmates, Daniels started his music career over again, this time in the church. He married a woman named Dorothy Vines, who was also singing in church with her sisters under the name the Vines Sisters. Daniels began attending their church, and when they found out he could play guitar they encouraged him to play piano too, something Daniels had never done. He started on just two fingers. "I said Lord, give me that gift and I'll play it for you. My fingers opened up and I've been playing ever since."  Daniels put the music to every song the Vines Sisters ever sang as the group built up a reputation as one of the most stirring gospel groups in Eastern North Carolina. Holding to a hard-driving old-school quartet style, they were soon dubbed the "Glorifying" Vines Sisters by a local radio DJ, for the way they sang and shouted for the Lord. Daniels drove the Glorifying Vines Sisters on long road trips around the national gospel circuit, often coming home to sleep for four hours before putting in a day of work and getting right back on the road again.  After 54 years, he turned his business over to his son Anthony, who leads his own group The Dedicated Men of Zion and continues the musical legacy of the Daniels and Vines families.

Whatever You Need

Music GB