Anyone who’s interviewed a newly sober rock star will know they have a tendency to vomit self-help platitudes. Not Danny Bryant. “People like that used to get on my nerves,” the 45-year-old British bluesman says, grinning. “You know, the ones that walk around saying: ‘Oh, I get up at half six in the morning, I go for a long walk, I’ve got my coffee, I love my life…’ I used to think that was absolute bollocks, to be honest with you. But that’s because, secretly, I was desperate to be sober too.”
In his first interview of the campaign for Nothing Left Behind, we start by apologising in advance to Bryant. The trouble is, we squirm, there’s no way to broach this new album without landing on subjects including death, divorce, hospitalisation and drastic weight loss. He interrupts us and says not to worry, ask away, and nothing is off the table.
