Listening To The Good Reverend Baron
Monster Children
Danny Garcia, alias Reverend Baron, ducks my initial attempt at neatly labeling his music. “I don’t know what the word is to explain it,” he tells me from a sunny living room in East LA. “It’s not soul, it’s not folk, it’s not rock, but it sort of has some of those things, it’s mellow, it’s melodic.” He pauses, careful not to fence himself in, “and the singer-songwriter thing is a tag but that one feels funny, so.”
“It takes practice getting in touch with feelings, those amorphous things. I had to learn how to shut down a certain part of myself while playing so other things could come up. I had to learn to trust my instincts. There are no love songs on From Anywhere,” citing his fourth studio album from 2022, “I don’t know what that means, but when I realized that halfway into recording I decided I would keep it that way.”