Looking for a hit: A disc jockey from Kaneville has turned the flipside on his career and is playing some songs of his own for a change.
Danny Lee Brehm, who appears at Fisherman’s Inn in Elburn and Hotel Baker in St. Charles, has spent the last three years playing other people’s music.
The 32-year-old, who has played guitar for the last 17 years, also has written more than 60 songs of his own.
During the past year he recorded eight of them on a cassette called “Breakaway,” which he is distributing through Nicely’s Dairy Dream in Kaneville.
He produced the cassette for his own Perflexion label. Brehm wrote all the lyrics and music, and he played all the instruments, through the use of a computerized keyboard.
Brehm, who delivers drywall by day, said he would like to record a new cassette every year and is longing for the day when he can upgrade the technology of his studio to produce compact discs. “I would like to become known across the country,” he said, “but I think it’s important to make a name for myself locally first.”
