DAN PATLANSKY: TOBIAS JOHAN COETSEE/PRESS
SCHOOLED IN THE Delta masters – but with a hint of Audioslave’s stomp and Lenny Kravitz’s soul-man bark – Dan Patlansky’s rocketing profile after 2014’s breakthrough Dear Silence Thieves led to him opening for Bruce Springsteen. More recently, helping his wife through illness and despairing at his nation’s mishandling of covid relief funds have given him food for thought. But despite the bristling tone of his new album Shelter Of Bones, Patlansky is a playful livewire at interview.