Danny & The Champions Of The World head out on the road next week in support of their amazing new album ‘Stay True’, which was released this week through Loose Records.

Stay True is the fourth album from Danny & The Champions Of The World. It’s also Danny George Wilson‘s eleventh album which includes six long players from the much loved Grand Drive plus a solo outing (as Danny George Wilson) entitled Famous Mad Mile.

Danny has been touring the world and making critically acclaimed records for nearly 20 years now, the first Grand Drive release was on Loose back in 1997. Stay True was recorded this year over five days at North London’s Reservoir Studios with Champs bass player Chris Clarke (ex Rockingbirds) and Danny at the helm.

Danny & The Champions Of The World 2013 tour dates:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

September 2013

24 The Railway Hotel, SOUTHEND

25 Also Known As, BANBURY

26 The Chattery, SWANSEA

27 Windmill, BRIXTON

28 South Street Arts Centre, READING

29 Hare & Hounds, BIRMINGHAM

November 2013

13 Old Oak Bar, CORK

14 Whelans, DUBLIN

15 Open House Festival, Bangor, BELFAST

16 The Sky & The Ground, WEXFORD

17 Cleeres, KILKENNY

20 Pivo Pivo, GLASGOW

22 Town Hall, STORNAWAY

24 The Cluny, NEWCASTLE

25 The Basement, YORK

26 Rugby Club, RIPON

28 The Bullingdon, OXFORD

29 The Donkey, LEICESTER

30 The Palmeira, BRIGHTON

December 2013

01 The Maze, NOTTINGHAM

03 The Railway, WINCHESTER

Here are some of the nice things that people have been saying about ‘Stay True’:

“a gold standard album for UK Americana” – Q Magazine

“ragged but righteous country soul” – Uncut

“with Stay True Danny and his wonderful band have fused blues, country and even gospel to provide a truly magnificent album” – 10/10 – AmericanaUK

“a mini-masterpiece of UK Americana” 9/10 – Shout4Music

“a band that seem to be getting better and better and more soulful with each release” – Gideon Coe (BBC 6 Music / Radio 2)

“An instant classic” – Ralph McLean (BBC Radio Ulster)

“sounds as if it was made in Stax Studios by a collective of Nashville’s finest Country musicians” “This is Danny and the Champions fourth album and unquestionably their finest in a long lineage that dates back to Grand Drive’s debut in 1997″ – No Depression

“Album of the year? Too early to say. Contender? Definitely.” – FATEA Magazine

“Straight into top spot for my album of the year” – Beat Surrender

“an excellent album, a fine collection of eleven songs that tell stories and evoke deep feelings” – Glasswerk

Radio airplay for Stay True includes:

Gideon Coe (BBC 6 Music & Radio 2), Marc Riley

(BBC 6 Music) Bob Harris (BBC Radio 2), Ralph McLean (BBC Radio Ulster), Robert Elms

(BBC Radio London), Iain Anderson (BBC Radio Scotland), Bethan Elfyn & Baylen

Leonard (Amazing Radio)

For the latest tour dates and information, please go to:

Danny & The Champions Of The World Official Website