Danny Schmidt
Danny Schmidt (born 7 October 1970) is an American singer-songwriter based … Read Full Bio ↴Danny Schmidt (born 7 October 1970) is an American singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas, where he was born and raised. He now lives there with fellow musician and singer-songwriter Carrie Elkin. In 2007 he won the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk award.
Schmidt started playing guitar at the age of 12. At age 20, he discovered he liked the blues after tracking the music of Jimi Hendrix back through Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, and Lightning Hopkins all the way to old country gospel and spirituals. He bought an acoustic guitar and eventually discovered the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits and John Prine who taught him about poetry and the melody of words.
Schmidt released his first recording in 2000, an album titled Live at the Prism Coffeehouse. In 2001 he released Enjoying the Fall. 2003 brought his third collection of songs, 'Make Right the Time'. In 2005 Danny released 'Parables & Primes' a critically acclaimed album taking on mystical overtones and a sort of magical-realism reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or Aesop. 2007 saw the release of 'Little Grey Sheep' and 2009 the release of 'Instead the Forest Rose to Sing', his first release on Red House Records. In 2011 Schmidt released 'Man of Many Moons', also on Red House Records.
Schmidt was part of the original King of My Living Room group of Charlottesville songwriters who would go on to do a series of concerts together. As well as Schmidt, the collection of artists included Brady Earnhart, Stratton Salidis, Jan Smith, Lance Brenner, Browning Porter and Jeff Romano.
www.dannyschmidt.com
Schmidt started playing guitar at the age of 12. At age 20, he discovered he liked the blues after tracking the music of Jimi Hendrix back through Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, and Lightning Hopkins all the way to old country gospel and spirituals. He bought an acoustic guitar and eventually discovered the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits and John Prine who taught him about poetry and the melody of words.
Schmidt released his first recording in 2000, an album titled Live at the Prism Coffeehouse. In 2001 he released Enjoying the Fall. 2003 brought his third collection of songs, 'Make Right the Time'. In 2005 Danny released 'Parables & Primes' a critically acclaimed album taking on mystical overtones and a sort of magical-realism reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or Aesop. 2007 saw the release of 'Little Grey Sheep' and 2009 the release of 'Instead the Forest Rose to Sing', his first release on Red House Records. In 2011 Schmidt released 'Man of Many Moons', also on Red House Records.
Schmidt was part of the original King of My Living Room group of Charlottesville songwriters who would go on to do a series of concerts together. As well as Schmidt, the collection of artists included Brady Earnhart, Stratton Salidis, Jan Smith, Lance Brenner, Browning Porter and Jeff Romano.
www.dannyschmidt.com
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Danny Schmidt Lyrics
07-Stained Glass It was thirty days til Easter when the elm tree…
A Circus of Clowns Well, the day the circus came to town Half the town…
Around the Waist I'm gonna sit and wiggle I'm gonna sing again I'm gonna spea…
Bad Year for Cane The ground grew grey and dead in August The bed lay…
Beggars & Mules I always did like music, and I always did like…
Better Off Broke All by my lonesome and by myself Ain't no soul left…
Cliff Song CLIFF SONG A part of her lives in a room in…
Company of Friends When I die, let them judge me by my company…
Dark Eyed Prince Once upon a time in a kingdom ill-defined A dark-eyed princ…
Dark-Eyed Prince Once upon a time in a kingdom ill-defined A dark-eyed prince…
Drawing Board I've lived my life in two pursuits To capture time and…
Esmee By The River Esmee by the river, face like a blue jay A kiss…
Faith Will Always Rise Wouldn't you believe a man Who showed you how to rise…
Firestorm I ain’t like that anymore I don’t kick off like before I’m…
Ghosts Swing, swing, gallows swing From anger back to sorrow Mornin…
Girl With Lantern Eyes Once upon a sinkhole, a prince who'd lost his people Slipped…
Go Ugly Early When the Porters sound the trumpet For a gathering of friend…
Grampa Built Bridges Grampa buried dignity when he got old Like a killer and…
Guilty By Association Blues If I had a parrot, I'd teach that bird to…
Happy All The Time I remember on the days when I was happy all…
Heaven Well in those hills of Ozark County There's backwards folks …
Houses Sing There’s signs in all the yards with a price tag…
Little White Angels Little white angels, little white pills* Free her from freed…
Looks Like God Looks like god just spilled the sunset on the sky Looks…
Lucky I woke up this morning and I realized That I owned…
Man of Many Moons Every morning shines a brand new light* A brand new light,…
Neil Young Well the night began with a Neil Young chord Lazy and…
Oh Bally Ho Rosemary fights with her heart like it’s wrong As he patient…
Parables & Primes Saat angin berhembus, nyiur kan abaikan duka mu Tersendu men…
Ragtime Ragtime Blues There's Pharaohs and there's farmers, there's bosses and the…
Riddles & Lies The gleam in your eye, it begged me to try But…
Serpentine Cycle Of Money I turned over a stone today A stone I guess I′d…
Southland Street Henry was a man of steel He built his cars in…
Stained Glass It was thirty days til Easter when the elm tree…
Swing Me Down Swing me down Ol’ Carolina Swing me back Virginia Swing th…
This to Shall Pass Well, things change fast, but this too shall pass Better car…
Three Chords and a Cloud of Dust Three chords and a bucket of trouble Three chords and I'll…
Trouble Comes Calling When I met Trouble she danced round the table I met…
Two Timing Bank Robber's Lament She had eyes like dirty emeralds and hair like melted…
Waiting On Sassafras We've been waiting since Thursday We're waiting today We'll …