A Note From Dan

My interest in songwriting came
from Paul Simon, Bob Dylan,
and the Beatles. I would have to
say that my most influential
contemporary is Mr. Josh Ritter.
While I get a lot of comparisons to
Jason Mraz and Cat Stevens, I can't
really say either have influenced my songwriting or style in any way.

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A Chronological Telling of Significant Dates & Events in Daniel Coyle’s Life

April 1st, 1982 – Daniel Coyle is born. He is given a middle name: Dallas.

February 1997 – Dan watches the sky and tunes an AM radio. He listens to late night talk
shows and thinks about travel, about space exploration, and decides that at some point in a
past life, he was a sailor.

October 1997 – Tuning that very same radio, Dan stumbles upon Nat King Cole’s version
of “Our Love is Here to Stay.” He no longer regrets his insomnia.

January 1998 – Dan sits and reads in the high school library and dreams about things that
are bigger than tiny Churchville, NY. He likes poetry, especially Robert Frost.

September 2000 – Escaping small towns forever, he studies Theater Performance at
Niagara University near the Canadian border.

March 2001 – A girlfriend gives Dan his very first acoustic guitar. Suddenly he has a new
way to talk about things and he likes it. He likes it so much he learns all the ways the
Beatles talk about their things. And the way Paul Simon does, and the way Bob Dylan
does, and . . .

May 2004 – Dan graduates and moves to Chicago.

April 2006 – He starts to write and record songs.

August 2007 – Dan records his debut album in his apartment on Briar Street in Chicago.
It’s called “Briar St. Sessions” and was followed up two years later on

June 1st, 2009 – with “Random Thoughts and Incomplete Sentences.” He forgoes all
ties to “regular jobs” and tours the country throughout the

Rest of 2009 – madly. He loves the vagabond life and finds himself on Bleecker Street
in New York City in

December of 2009 – and thinks that this is as good a place as any to write a new album.
He hangs around for the winter and sets out again in the

Spring of 2010 – in a fateful white van named Betty. Betty dies a terrible death in Moline IL, so Dan returns to New York to record his third album. The album, titled “You Linger Your
Little Hour and Are Gone,” was released in

December 2010 – at which point he recommenced touring, though this time in a place very different from the Midwest: Europe.

February 2011 – Currently, Dan is playing shows throughout that continent, and hopes that you find part of yourself in those melodies.