DANIEL RODRIGUEZ STRING BAND

With his latest album, Harboring Pearls, acclaimed singer-songwriter Daniel Rodriguez views the recording process and the ultimate unveiling of the record as a leap of creative faith—“jumping off the cliff.”
Captured by producer David Baron at his Sun Mountain studio in Woodstock, New York—situated atop a ridge amid the ancient Catskill Mountains—Harboring Pearls was co-produced by Wesley Schultz, lead singer of indie-folk juggernaut The Lumineers.
Whether shaped by personal heartbreak or the seismic shift in his daily life when Rodriguez exited his longtime band, Elephant Revival, Harboring Pearls is a snapshot of a human being simply trying to navigate the choppy waters of existence to the best of his ability.
Songs such as “El Dorado,” “Anything and Everything,” and “Graduation” paint vivid pictures of Rodriguez’s journey unfolding in real time.
“It’s about transcendence, and that’s been such a wild process,” Rodriguez says. “There’s been this pressure cooking with the songs—a lot of coal being compressed into diamonds.”