Danny Sheridan

Danny Sheridan
Danny Sheridan with his 1951 Fender Precision Bass in a photograph that appeared in Bass Player Magazine, October 2001. (Photo by Carol Sheridan. Used with permission)
Background information
Genres	Outlaw country, rock, blues
Occupation(s)	Songwriter, bassist, record producer, actor, manager
Instruments	Bass, guitar, piano, drums, backing vocals
Associated acts	Eli Radish Band, David Allan Coe, Bandaloo Doctors, David Crosby, Bonnie Bramlett, Ringo Starr, The Who, The Doors

Danny Sheridan (October 11, 1950 – May 24, 2016) was an American musician, songwriter, producer, actor, and entertainment manager. In 2006 he also became a radio personality on 97.1 KLSX Free FM (CBS Los Angeles). He is credited as an influential electric bass player, and as the founder of the Eli Radish Band, pioneers of the so-called outlaw country music genre. This is a style that Sheridan's former band-mate/vocalist David Allan Coe continues to perform today, with a string of hit songs like “Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)” and the anti-labor tune, “Take This Job And Shove It”. Still in his teens, Sheridan's Eli Radish toured with such notable acts as The Who and The Doors. The lyrics of Coe's "Longhaired Redneck" forever memorialized the concerts he performed with Sheridan while fronting the Eli Radish Band. In 2014 Sheridan began managing Coe and co-produced his new CD "Just As I Am", with Boris Menart.

Sheridan also helped launch and manage his then-girlfriend Playboy model Nina Blackwood’s TV career as MTV’s first video jockey (VJ), and in October 1983 US Magazine praised his “astute management” for "orchestrating her meteoric rise". Sheridan continued to represent Blackwood and keep her active in music culture for the majority of her career.

In 1988, Sheridan married blues vocalist Bonnie Bramlett of Delaney, Bonnie & Friends of On Tour with Eric Clapton fame, soon managing her 1990s career comeback where he wrote and produced the “Revolutionary Hard Rockin’ Blues” of their group, Bandaloo Doctors. The Doctors' music attracted the admiration of many Hollywood celebrities including Tom and Roseanne Arnold, and the musical couple was soon cast for several seasons of the hit ABC series Roseanne: Bramlett as the recurring character "Bonnie Watkins, the Waitress", with Sheridan writing music and appearing on-camera as "Hank the Bass Player" in "The Bowling Alley" episode, during which Bramlett, Sheridan and David Crosby perform Sheridan's song, "Roll On Down."People Magazine and Robin Leach’s Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (who followed the Bandaloo Doctors during their tenure with the 1992 Ringo Starr Tour) praised Sheridan for "reinventing Bramlett’s career". Sheridan later went on to act with Pauly Shore.