He started writing and playing music when he was five. He hasn't progressed much, but he's enjoyed himself anyway,

His first record, Downtown Rocktown, an acoustic presentation of original songs and contemplations, features Nathan Garrett on upright bass and winds.

Solipschism, Sundowning, and Surreptition track a journey in search of a destination. The strong-willed quest for electro-experimental exisistentialist pop song form perhaps distracted from a more pure or useful aesthetic.

Last Days on Wolfe Street presents a new direction: a stripped down set of instruments, a moratorium on synthetic drums, and an attempt to dispose of gratuitous wordplay and effect.

He's currently playing and researching Appalachian and Eastern European folk song and working with Frédéric on new Kindly Ones material.

Dan is a member of The Lotus Eaters (an old-time string band), The Kindly Ones, The Burnt Possum Poets (a trio of writers), and The Shakes (a collaboration with old schoolmate Mark Lane), and has played keyboards for Clyde Wrenn and Chris Howdyshell.

More information on Dan, as well as some of his works in the textual arena, is available on his page at Burnt Possum.