Daryl Hance supporting Sam Morrow - As one moves west about fourty miles or so inland from the Atlantic coast of Northeast Florida, the land begins a gradual ascent up an incline that is the eastern slope of what is known as Trail Ridge. A barely noticeable ancient shoreline dune left behind by an ocean that hasn’t touched this ground here in eons, where the elevation tops out around 160 or more feet above sea level. It is a place where the flat, water-logged lowlands and swampy inland waterways have transformed into large tracts of higher and drier, longleaf pine flatwoods, palmetto scrub, and lots and lots of loose, pale sand that shifts underfoot like the dune it once was. This is sandhill country, the high ground carved out of deep time, and it is the place where Daryl Hance has been creating music in one form or another dating back 40 years.

Although primarily a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Daryl is a multi-instrumentalist that performs most of the instruments and sounds found on his self-produced/engineered studio albums. His work channels a fiery blend of atmospheric guitar-driven groove rock and roll, phased-out psychedelic soul, and uncut Northeast Florida swamp funk and inland blues - heavily steeped in the spirit of the great blues, funk, and soul-inspired rock and roll giants of the pre-1975 or so era. Thick with raw organic tone, low-end groove, and built on high musical energy and good times. It’s a very groovy, psychedelic vibe harkening back to the magic of the mid-to-late 1960s through the early-to-mid 1970s: an authentic heart-on-your-sleeve spirit of good time energy, an earth-shaking rhythmically introspective tone, with paramount emphasis on the “swing” that originally made this music such a force of nature. Simply put, it rocks… and it rolls, pushing and pulling, creating that irresistible swing that makes people move.