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“America’s
most original narrative story-teller since
Harry Chapin”
—“Q” Magazine, February
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| 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 .
From
unrequited love in a bicycle repair shop in Mr.
Schwinn to spurned to ramblings of a disaffected
Angelino in “A Crooked Line,” we recognize
that the often dark characters presented in those
story songs live all around us.
With his distinctive baritone voice, a smoothly
proficient finger-style guitar technique which
has earned him an endorsement with Taylor Guitars
and a sense of drama and storytelling in his lyrics
and music, Purpose delivers a charismatic performance
that captures coffeehouse and theater audiences
alike, including a huge supply of interesting
stories from his activities as a peace activist,
professional gambler and modern troubadour.
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