Josh Daniels is a country/folk/bluegrass musician singer/songwriter that gained recognition in the Detroit area in magazines and newspapers such as The Metro Times, Real Detroit and The Detroit Free Press. His air-play on the Windsor Canada based CJAM radio station added to his rapidly acquired, local, cult following beginning in 2006. His southern-drawled Detroit country was unique to his urban environment and his band Josh Daniels and the Addictions was hailed "One of the best of the super crop of country/bluegrass tributes to come out of Detroit." *
Josh now lives in the Sonoran Desert and continues to write and record songs that ultimately get aired on CJAM radio. Other members of the origional Addictions continue on in Detroit creating music under the names Swindle P. Hurst and Shithouse Yonder.
BIOGRAPHY
Josh Daniels was born Joshua Daniel Acosta in Ann Arbor, Michigan on February 16th, 1971. His father David Acosta worked for the auto industry on the assembly line and his mother Kathleen Acosta worked for a grocery store chain. Josh was known as "JD" to his friends until Jr. Highschool. It was then that he formed his first band with his friends. Although playing the drums, he focused on songwriting and recording music with whatever instruments he could find.
It was also during these teenage years that he began drinking heavily and frequenting various nightspots in Detroit. Barely finishing final exams, Josh moved to the area known as "Hell's Kitchen" in Manhattan's upper east side after High School graduation. Over the next several years he bounced from coast to coast, spending his 21st birthday in San Francisco and puchasing his first guitar in L.A. that year.
He continued to move from city to city, gathering experience and stories until he landed in Memphis, Tennessee. It was there that he joined his first working band, The Dillingers. Their blend of Americana, Traditional Country and Punk made them quickly, locally popular, but they self-destructed just as rapidly.
From Memphis, Josh moved back to New York and became a part of bands such as Foundry and Bare Waller. However, he never stopped recording his own compositions, which were seeping into the studio cuts and live shows of these bands since he joined the Dillingers. After the attack(s) on 9/11/01, he moved back to Detroit city where he collected talented musicians to perform his own songs, to local, critical acclaim.