Danny Rader (born November 1, 1981) is a musician from Panama City, Florida. Born into a musical family, he began to play drums at age 2 and branched out into bass, guitar and piano in his early teens. Later he incorporated bazouki, mandolin, banjo, mandola, keyboards, accordion, melodica, and harmonica into his skill set.

 

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Rader, along with the rest of his family, performed in The Ocean Opry Music Show in Panama City Beach, Florida, which operated from 1978-2005. With his family Rader performed over 200 shows a year, until moving to Nashville in 2004.

Rader toured with Jason Aldean, LeAnn Rimes, Gretchen Wilson, Carolyn Dawn Johnson and Julianne Hough. In 2010, he joined Keith Urban's touring band.

He has appeared on The Grammy Awards, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Country Music Television Awards and The Billboard Music Awards, among other TV appearances.

In 2014, Danny was nominated for the Academy of Country Music's "Specialty Musician of the Year" award. In 2016, Danny won the Academy of Country Music's "Specialty Musician of the Year" award.

 

A few things that came up:

-Always filming these days

-Moved here in 2004, said yes to everything

-Being in a family band

-Rig rundown with Keith

-Playing with Keith Urban

-Getting royalties straight over time

-Radio perspective for royalties

-Somewhere on a Beach - Dierks

-The Castle recording studio being haunted

-Studio talk

-Peter Coleman and Richard Dodd

-Kenny Chesney Banjo Solo in American Kids

-Vegas stories

-Japanese fighting fish

-Working with Robin Schulz, EDM artist "Ha Leh Lou Ya"

-Flat Earth Theory

 

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