Saint Augustine, Florida
Singer-Songwriter, Instrumentalist

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BIOGRAPHY

Darryl Wise was born in Savannah Georgia on Sept 13, 1956. He's lived there off and on since first leaving in 1976. That's when he went on the road with his band in search of better paying gigs, art and integrity, an often overlooked quality in musicians. He continues to search for new ways to write about his life and others through his music. He is currently based out of St. Augustine Florida. His long awaited CD - Many Miles came out in May, 2008. It's a compilation of lots of songs he wrote and has been singing for many years. The success of his first CD has inspired him to start a new CD project entitled Reflections, which is due to be released in the Spring of 2009. He considers himself a songwriter and feels music can become a reflection of the times we live in. Darryl has opened many shows and performed with artists ranging from Los Lobos, Tears for Fears, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys to Tom Paxton. He was invited to do a Songwriters in the Round at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville in 2004 featuring other Georgia-born songwriters. The group included Tony Arata, Pat Algers and Tom Douglas. This was truly an honor for him just to be on stage with musicians he considers to be leaders in the Nashville writers circle. In these days and times, Darryl believes that honesty in music and art is important for people to hear and feel. He feels emotions are directly connected to the greater spirt of all that we are. Without these passions, we would simply cease to exist.

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Folk, Blues, Singer/Songwriter

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Tybeedaze, I own my own publishing

Contact

Publishing: I own my own publishing company
Label: Indie
Booking: Darryl Wise : tybeewood@comcast.net / www.darrylwise.com
Administrative: Darryl Wise

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

banjo / bass / dobro / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / harmonica / mandolin / piano / vocals

INFLUENCES

Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Ry Cooder, Hank Williams Sr. , Django , Bela Fleck, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Robert Johnson, Ect.............

DAY JOB

Performing Songwriter

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,