You probably know who Dan is already, maybe without realizing it. It's estimated that in America, every night, at least eight bands cover the song he is most known for, Keep Your Hands To Yourself, which he recorded with the Georgia Satellites back in 1 986, that's right, over thirty years ago. A song which Rolling Stone magazine recently credited as the song which, more than any other, spawned the'country song with rock guitar crossover'. It's also a song which has turned up on the soundtrack of Coyote Ugly, Sweet Home Alabama and The Expendables, as well as featuring in a recent Buick Motors TV ad and a memorable episode of Beavis And Butthead. It's been covered by everyone from Hank Williams Jr to Kid Rock and Kenny Chesney used the song as the encore on his last tour. But, there's a lot more to Dan than that one song. Like many of his contemporaries, he learnt his craft on the US bar circuit, before signing to Elektra and breaking through with Hands and the eponymous Georgia Satellites debut, both kept of their respective Nol slots by Bon Jovi's Living On A Prayer and Slippery When Wet. Dan went on to record two more albums with the Satellites, Open All Night and In The Land Of Salvation And Sin, as well as contributing a cover of the Swinging Blue Jeans evergreen classic, Hippy Hippy Shake to Tom Cruise's hit film Cocktail. He'd always been the chief songwriter for the Satellites, but increasingly felt the need to stretch his wings and to record material that he thought would not necessarily fit in with the bands sound.
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