New Sweat with Daniel Anderson & Heroic Dose

About this show

New Sweat recently dropped their third album release, called Faultlines. The quartet is a versatile and undeniable force of live music, and has become veterans of the Raleigh live music scene. They can work a quiet room with melodic, harmony-rich folk from the back porch, or crank out dynamic grooves and jams as a full band that will keep any crowd moving. Mixing their lyrical, road-worn original songs across three albums, New Sweat transcends the troubadour cliches and bar-band trappings and turns the place into a raucous juke joint. Growing up together in rural Pennsylvania, guitarist-singer-songwriter Garrett Cummings, bassist Abe Kline, and drummer Taylor Cummings were raised on home-grown music. Following different paths to North Carolina, the trio came together as a three-piece band in Raleigh in the summer of 2007. Doug McCullough joined the group in May 2012 and filled out the band's sound with keys and soulful vocals and harmonies. They have released No Instructions (2012), Machines (2019), and Faultlines (2026), while continuing to write and record in other individual and side projects. Daniel Anderson grew up in rural North Carolina absorbing a diverse range of music from blues, to gospel, to country, to hip-hop. Having been bitten by the music bug at a young age, there were always toy guitars, drum sets, and keyboards around, but it wasn't until age 11 that Daniel convinced his mother to buy him his first real electric guitar. A few months later, his father took his own life, leaving music as more than just a means of artistic expression. It became a lifeline, a coping mechanism, and the one thing he could count on to always be there. In his early teens, Daniel began listening to groups that were responsible for the British blues revival of the 60's, and from there he worked backwards and became immersed in the sounds of Delta and Hill Country blues, especially keen on Robert Johnson, Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, R.L. Burnside, and T-Model Ford, the latter of which he was able to share the stage with. In 2003, a chance encounter with Derek Trucks would lead Daniel to make slide guitar a big part of his repertoire, and one that has served him well since. He played mostly around NC, SC, and VA until 2009 when he took a touring gig with a signed artist, but in 2010 decided to focus on teaching and gigging locally for the next few years. From 2015-2021 Daniel played gigs from coast to coast with multiple artists, also co-writing multiple songs that hit #1 on regional charts. Despite being a sought-after sideman, playing with multiple NC-based groups including zydeco blues act "Mel Melton and The Wicked Mojos", Daniel decided to take control of his own destiny, culminating with the formation of "Daniel Anderson and Heroic Dose" in 2022. The group blends all of his blues influences with elements of psychedelia, roots-rock, and jammy improvisation. The group recently released their debut studio single, "Stuck With Trouble", which is currently available on all major streaming platforms.