Darryl Purpose
Website:
http://www.darrylpurpose.com
Discography:
2005 - Live at Coalesce w/ Julie Beaver
2002 - Gift of the Magi
2001 - A Crooked Line
1999 - Traveler's Code
1997 - Same River Twice
1996 - Right Side of Zero
| Darryl Purpose has led a diverse and interesting life. Lured as a teenager to the world of casino gambling, Purpose went from betting dollars on the graveyard shifts in downtown Las Vegas, to being one of the best blackjack players in the world by his mid twenties. In his late twenties, Purpose left Blackjack to walk across the country (L.A. to DC) with the ‘Great Peace March.’ Writing and playing music as a member of the ‘house band’ of the GPM—his first performing experience— was a watershed event for Purpose, leaving him with a permanent thirst for the connection possible through music. This led to another march in the (then) Soviet Union and the first-ever, outdoor stadium rock concert there, featuring Bonnie Raitt, Santana, James Taylor, and Darryl's band, Collective Vision.
Purpose moved into music fulltime in 1996. A thousand shows, and 20,000 CD’s later, Purpose has “finally realized his calling as a dramatist for the dispossessed, a chronicler of those Americans who, by choice or by chance, live on the heart's back streets, rising up through the crooked lines like leaves of grass" writes Michael Tisserand in the liner notes from his album A Crooked Line .
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