Dan Hart / Audio CD (August 8, 2001)
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Track Listings:
The Life of Dan
Dan Hart / Audio CD (August 8, 2001)
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1. The Life of Dan 2. You Can Find Love 3. Tofu Cowboy 4. Hey Ho 2001 5. Ritalin |
6. Sex 'n' Violence 7. You're Old 8. Doesn't Play Well 9. Millennium Song 10. I Hate to Sing Along |
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1. Tailfins 2. Relay Tower 3. Apocalypse Now and Then 4. Traffic 5. Spy At My School |
6. Captain Captain 7. Big Rig (on the Information Superhighway) 8. The Way It Goes 9. You Can't Go Home 10. Understanding Blues |
Born in Illinois, raised in California by parents who met in radio, she an editor and he a broadcaster, it was natural that Hart would go into the entertainment field.
He started playing guitar when he was 10, finding it an exceptionally effective way to annoy his older sister. Later he found that it earned him enough money to pay for a liberal arts education, and eventually that it would earn him a better living than his advanced degree.
When he was invited to tour Europe as a musician, he gave up the psych field entirely (he is still waiting for THEM to as him on an international tour.)
His music? He grew up listening to Dr. Demento on Los Angeles radio stations, and later, when it became nationally syndicated, he began contributing material. First influenced by the classic singer songwriters of his time like Carole King and James Taylor, he soon veered off towards the funny side of music an spent hours listening to Tom Lehrer, Allan Sherman, and Spike Jones. Now, humor/rock groups like Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants, and Jim's Big Ego are his favorites.
His latest CD, "The Life of Dan," is not about Dan's life, despite the title. There are far too many autobiographical songs out there, about lives much more interesting and enlightening than Dan's (as is fully admitted in the title song.). It's about our strange media-world; the future which is now the present, and will soon be the past (how deep); vegans and folkies, etc.
