Dan Zimmerman

Dan Zimmerman can be an indie folk singer/songwriter associated with Daniel Smith from the music group Danielson as well as the label Noises Familyre. Given birth to in 1948, Zimmerman may be the son of the Methodist preacher and was deeply affected by his amount of time in the chapel. He started playing your guitar in 1957 and later on went to the Syracuse College of Art. A lot of his main influences date towards the middle- to past due ’50s and early ’60s, from your Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley towards the Beatles and Bob Dylan. Disillusioned by several past due-’60s occurrences — the divorce of his parents, the Vietnam Battle, the medication outbreak — he decreased out of college by the end from the 1960s and journeyed in the united states to Portland, OR, inside a vehicle, hitchhiking the ultimate leg from the trip. In the first ’70s he wedded his university sweetheart and relocated to Washington condition to start out a yoga exercise community out in the woods. Through the middle-’70s he got employment doing work for the federal government forestry support alongside Support St. Helens. By the end from the ’70s he relocated back again to Portland and centered on his existence as a family group guy. In 1984 he co-founded the music group Subterranean Café, which released three albums during the period of five years. In 1995 he relocated to NJ and finally became familiar with Daniel Smith from the indie music group Danielson (aka Danielson Famile). After years of songwriting and carrying out, Zimmerman finally made his documenting debut in 2001 using the record Great Little, which Smith released on his Danielson-associated label, Noises Familyre. A follow-up record, Northwest Years (2003), was self-released a few years afterwards. Zimmerman’s third record, Cosmic Patriot (2009), was another cooperation with Smith, who created the full-length work and released it on Noises Familyre.