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Artists:Darryl Purpose
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As a teenager, Darryl Purpose decided to become a professional gambler. He was once recognized as the world's top blackjack player. By his late twenties, he left blackjack behind to walk from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. with the Great Peace March. His first performing experience was as a member of the band for the march, a watershed event that left him with a permanent thirst for the connection with other people through music. This led to another march, across the Russian heartland, which culminated in the first-ever, outdoor stadium rock concert in the former Soviet Union, featuring Bonnie Raitt, Santana, James Taylor, and Darryl's band, Collective Vision.
In 1996, he returned to music full time and released his first CD. Right Side of Zero explored his transition from the dark underworld of gambling. He released his second CD Same River Twice in 1997 to great reviews. It includes some of his most introspective songs; "Dangerous Game" has stories from his life as a gambler and a peace activist. In January 1998, he won the National Songwriting Competition in Florida with his ballad Mr Schwinn. Later that year, he took first place in the Rose Garden Coffeehouse songwriter competition.
In 1999, Darryl introduced his third CD Traveler's Code which includes the beautiful and tender wedding song "Ring on My Hand" in a duet with Lucy Kaplansky, the tentative estranged-father story "Child of Hearts" with help from Ellis Paul, and other songs of love and adventure and heartache. Then in 2001 came A Crooked Line, with songwriting contributions from Dave Carter and more from Ellis Paul. In 2002 he released what could be described as "sort-of" a Christmas album, "The Gift of the Magi". Ranging from heartrendingly poignant to wryly humorous, this amazing collection of songs is more about the attitudes and feelings we try to embrace for a couple weeks every year, than about the holidays themselves. The album includes a more serious treatment of Dar William's "The Christians and the Pagans".
Darryl is making his mark in the folk music world with his distinctive baritone voice, fingerstyle guitar, a sense of drama and storytelling in his lyrics and music, and a charismatic performance that captures coffeehouse and theater audiences alike. He is a storyteller, both in words and song, and his concerts have a Guthrie-like effect on people. Darryl is popular with radio and television hosts, having an interview style and a huge supply of interesting stories from his activities as a peace activist, professional gambler and modern troubadour.
"As far as I know," he smiles, "I am the world's only singer-songwriter/professional blackjack player.".
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| Darryl Purpose on Wikipedia |
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Late For Dinner | A Crooked Line | 4:05 | 53 |  15 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Newgrass / Banjo / Slide guitar / Mandolin / Pretty / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Band | Koreatown | A Crooked Line | 3:02 | 35 | 7 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Folk / Upbeat / Fast / Jim's double favorite | Oughtta Be A Highway | A Crooked Line | 3:38 | 22 | 4 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Newgrass / Folk / Pretty |
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Artist name is|Darryl Purpose Last played| more than 1 month ago ---------------------------------------- Show name| Songs by Darryl Purpose Length| 15 minutes Order by| random Limit| 3 songs ----------------------------------------
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- Spotlighted: Sunday, August 15th 2004
- Songs on WWR: 10
- Total plays: 356
- Total requests: 118
- Total listens: 7378
- CDBaby referrals: 4
- CDBaby sales: A Crooked Line (Sold 2 copies)
Same River Twice (Sold 1 copies)
The Gift of the Magi (and other seasonal stories) (Sold 1 copies)
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