Danny Schmidt

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Named to the Chicago Tribune’s list of the “50 Most Significant Songwriters in the Last 50 Years,” singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt has amassed a cult following for his poetic, poignant lyrics. With a craftsmanship and emotional depth drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt, Schmidt is considered a preeminent writer. Sing Out Magazine proclaimed that: “Schmidt is a force of nature: a blue moon, a hundred-year flood, an avalanche of a singer-songwriter. His songs are a flood of poetry, mythology, folk wisdom, and surprise. He is perhaps the best new songwriter we’ve heard in the last 15 years.”

Performing solo most often, armed with just his voice, his acoustic guitar, and his acute insight and commentary, Schmidt’s an authentic timeless troubadour, one man sharing his truth in the form of songs, in unadorned and intimate fashion. The understated effect can be powerful. As songwriter Jeffrey Foucault put it: “Everything about the man is gentle, except for his capacity for insight, which is crushing.”

- Named to Chicago Tribunes “50 Most Significant Songwriters in the Last 50 Years”

- Kerrville New Folk Award Winner

- Each of last seven albums has topped the Folk Radio charts at #1

- Red House Records artist for three albums

- FEATURED MUSICIAN FOR THE HIT PODCAST "WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE”

"The most brilliant young songwriter I've heard in the past 25 years. His songs are thrillingly poetic."

- Rich Warren, Radio Hall Of Fame DJ of The Midnight Special 

"Intensely intelligent, this is sensitive songwriting at its finest. In his use of parable and allegory, there are inevitable comparisons with Cohen and Dylan, but these are songs of such quality and beauty that they more than hold their own in this exalted company.”

- Maverick Magazine UK

"In today's underground folk world, Danny Schmidt is spoken of in reverent tones."

- Jim Caligiuri, Austin Chronicle