Dan Whitney

Dan Whitney was born in North Hollywood, California. He lived in Northridge, California for seventeen years in the San Fernando area where he learned how to be a mason by his father Maurice Whitney. He belonged to Union Local 2 of Santa Monica, California, then to the Sacramento area in 1973 where joined the Union Local 9. He then became a licensed contractor as Whitney Masonry in 1974 and is still building custom masonry projects in the Sacramento area today. Going to Sacramento State University he cleared a teaching credential in "Building Trades, Performing Arts and Media and then taught a masonry class at Foothill High School for two years.
His mother Donna Whitney provided piano lessons for Dan at age 5 and then he learned how to read music by taking guitar lessons at the "Lively Arts Music" store in Northridge, California where he learned how to play the guitar from instructors George Koehler and Stan McClaren. Dan plays guitar with harmonica and performs cover songs replicating the vocal sounds as artists; Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty. Dan has received two "Honorable Mention Awards" from the International Song Writing Contest in North Hollywood for his songs "If She'd Only Love Me" and "Keep On Down That Road" in 1980. He has completed his CD titled "Plateau" in 2023 at the Pus Cavern Studio in Sacramento with producer John "Gray Wolf" Russell and recording engineer Joe Johnston. With the same producer and engineer we have completed a master for Dan's second CD titled "Have A Heart." Music and lyrics for the "Plateau" and "Have A Heart" CD's by Dan Whitney. Dan Whitney is playing gigs with the Howlin' Alan Band here in the Sacramento area since 1994 with vocal harmonies by Alan Aufill, Gordon Hanley, and Dan Whitney. Dan likes to write music and lyrics, and philosophy. He is now working on a Gospel CD with songs written by Abe Mulkey and Dan Whitney.