Danny's Devil's Blues at Otto's Shrunken Head

Rock and roll will never die. On any given night, a music lover in Manhattan can find a dozen bands playing original music that is rooted in the early rock and roll sounds of a half century ago. Although singer Danny Biondio led hardcore punk and hair metal bands while in his youth in Washington, D.C., the New York-based singer’s current band, Danny’s Devil’s Blues, formed in 2007, is among the many bands playing standard roots-based rock and roll, perhaps in his case accentuating the blues over rockabilly.

At Otto’s Shrunken Head tonight, Danny’s Devil’s Blues played a set of smoldering body-moving rock and roll songs. Dressed in all-black rock maverick bravado, Biondio snarled his mostly-original songs with a sneering rebel attitude, backed by Dave White of Stumblebunny playing a sizzling guitar, Kev Shaw on bass and the ever-powerful Jeanne Carno-Rosenberg of Ingrid & the Defectors on drums. The band rocked like the early rock and roll pioneers, only harder, faster and dirtier.