Daniel W "Danny" Flowers was born on 1948 and is an American songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist based in Nashville.
21 Facts About Danny Flowers
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Danny Flowers is known for creating songs that became hits for other artists.
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Danny Flowers co-wrote "Gulf Coast Highway", recorded by Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Nanci Griffith.
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Danny Flowers's father was a mortician who owned the Flowers Funeral Home in Henderson; the family lived in an apartment above the business.
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Danny Flowers played high school football and was in a band that played after the games.
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Danny Flowers got his first guitar at age 17 and it became his primary inspiration for songwriting.
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Danny Flowers said, "Hardly anyone in my family supported me wanting to be a musician".
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Danny Flowers moved to Virginia Beach in 1968 after dropping out of school to perform on the blues and folk circuit, primarily as a harmonica player.
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Danny Flowers became proficient on slide guitar, dobro, and harmonica.
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Danny Flowers moved to Nashville in the early 1970s and was signed by Wesley Rose to a publishing deal with Acuff-Rose.
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Danny Flowers worked for producer Jack Clement and made demos for another writer, Don Williams.
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Danny Flowers was living on Nashville's Blakemore Avenue, sharing the rent with singer Rodney Crowell and Chis Leuzinger.
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Chapman became a fan of Emmylou Harris' songs sung with Gram Parsons and was then surprised to learn that Danny Flowers had had one of his songs, "Before Believing" recorded by Harris and that one of his lyrics became the album's title.
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Danny Flowers credited Flowers with telling her that she must learn to write songs to be successful in music.
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Danny Flowers reportedly spent only half an hour on it and the song had only two chords.
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About two months later, Danny Flowers was performing with Williams in Nashville as the opening act for Eric Clapton.
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Danny Flowers sang and played guitar on his new song, "Tulsa Time" with Williams singing harmony and Clapton playing slide guitar on a dobro.
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Danny Flowers has been a session musician for Williams, Griffith, Vince Gill, Marshall Chapman, George Hamilton IV and Dobie Gray, as well as having toured with Williams, Gill, the Sweethearts of the Rodeo, the McCrary Sisters and others.
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Danny Flowers' demonstrated his skill on the harmonica in this band.
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Danny Flowers left Williams in 1985 and later played with Nanci Griffith, Aaron Tippin, and Russell Smith.
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In late 2014, Danny Flowers began work on a new record, Anytime, Anywhere, Everywhere, for release in 2015.