Exclusive: Watch Danny Barnes (Wildknees) host a homeless DaveMatthews in the music video for HeyMan
today from Danny Barnes’ new album, which was executive produced by Matthews. In the poignant clip -- directed by Dave Matthews Band video director and lighting designer Fenton Williams -- Barnes discovers the well-disguised Matthews, who flees back to the streets for some truly heart-wrenching scenarios. The video does, however, have a decidedly sweet ending.
"[Matthews] and I were thinking that we ought to do a video, and he's such a good actor," Barnes, who wrote the song after hearing about a similar real-life situation, tells."Dave's really great with facial expressions and stuff like that. I thought it would be cool to do and he got all his people involved and it turned out really great. I love the way they treated the color palette and the editing and made it kind of herky-jerky. I think it's really brilliant.
"I'm lucky to have guys like [Matthews] and Frisell and those guys," Barnes says."They care about my work and then try to help me pick the good stuff and make sure we get the right tunes. It means a lot to have access to people who have super-discerning ears and are also close buddies of mine. They're all super brilliant cats. I'm not a legend myself, but I get to work with some, so I'm blessed."starting March 13.
"A lot of my poetry is about being stuck in that moment where you don't really know what you're gonna do. It deals a lot with someone trying to find dignity as a poor person and this collision of the old and the new -- and that really resonates when I'm playing by myself, I think," Barnes, who’s also part of David Grisman’s Dawg Trio, says."I have a small audience that comes, and they pretty much buy all my records and stuff. It's a good scene.
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