Danielle Howle

Danielle Howle (born in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American singer-songwriter.

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• Lay Quiet Awhile
• Danielle Howle
• Danielle Howle and the Tantrums
• References

Current Project (We could use your help!)

Howle and Chapman of The Woodshed Archive are brainstorming in hopes of funding Howle’s next community education event. Howle has been invited to attend a Shaman training workshop September 7th, 2017 at 3 Sided Whole High Desert Wilderness Area in New Mexico. After the training session, Howle will perform at the public musical event in the desert for “Guardians of the High Desert” On September 8 and 9. The following week Howle will engage with the 3 sided whole community to build bathrooms and much needed housing structures on the property.

Description

Danielle Howle has earned comparisons to Flannery O'Connor, Patsy Cline, and Nina Simone. She has received praise from Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, who released four of Howle’s albums on the indie label Daemon Records, and tapped Howle for backup vocals on 2 songs on her 2001 solo album "Stag." Ani DiFranco called Howle "a melodically nimble being." The New York Times called Howle “an extraordinary mind, a southern storyteller with a gorgeous sense of melody.”

Early Career

After releasing an early song on a Columbia, SC music sampler in the late 1980’s, Howle joined the Columbia-based band Lay Quiet Awhile, formed by brothers Dan and Phil Cook in 1989. Howle was the voice on their first full-length album, Delicate Wire, released in 1993. Her stage-presence, unique vocals and unconventional lyrics quickly became a trademark of the group. Touring in support of such disparate artists as Fugazi and Indigo Girls, the band quickly amassed praise from fans and critical acclaim, so Daemon Records re-released Delicate Wire later that year.

When the group disbanded, Howle embarked on a solo career, beginning with a live album recorded at the University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum. Live at McKissick Museum was the beginning of a busy period of songwriting and touring. Howle released two solo albums, About to Burst in 1996 and Catalog in 1999.

About to Burst was released by Simple Machines Records, an independent pop label in Arlington, VA. The first single was a 7” called “Frog”. The CD featured solo, acoustic tracks written by Howle, and several tracks with her new backing band, The Tantrums, featuring John Furr on guitar and Bryan Williams on bass, and former Lay Quiet Awhile drummer Troy Tague.

In 1999, the band took part of the year off, so Howle continued her solo projects with the release of Catalog. This CD was released on the Olympia, Washington indie label Kill Rock Stars. Catalog was ranked #20 of the 200 best albums of 1999 by the College Music Journal and features 12 all-acoustic songs.

Live at McKissick Museum, About to Burst, Catalog and Lay Quiet Awhile’s Delicate Wire were all distributed in Europe by Southern Records in 1999.

Danielle Howle and the Tantrums released two full-length albums, Do a Two Sable in 1997, and Skorborealis in 2002. They also released several singles on local and national compilation albums.

Awendaw, SC Projects

In late 2004, Howle began pre-production on a solo record with Grammy and Emmy winning producer/artist Mark Bryan of Hootie and The Blowfish. The CD took several months to complete, but in February of 2005, Howle and Bryan embarked on a journey to Nashville to mix/ master the CD with Grammy award winning engineer and producer Nick Brophy.

The track “Jesus Won’t wait” was cut live in studio with bass player Byron House from Sam Bush’s band.

In April of 2006, Thank You, Mark was released by Valley Entertainment, a small, diverse label out of New York City. Tours with The Avett Brothers, Indigo Girls and Hootie and The Blowfish followed its release.

In mid 2007, Howle and Dr. Eddie White co-founded Awendaw Green, a community musical event that has been hosting live shows every Wednesday since its founding. Affectionately named ,The Barn Jam this institution is a musical hub for artists touring in the US and for those coming from abroad.

Howle has also been Artist in Residence at Awendaw Green since it’s founding. She created an on-going recording project there called Swamp Sessions. All Swamp Sessions recordings are made in the solar powered “Swamp House” studio. Howle’s 2008 CD Swamp Sessions was the first recording produced in the Swamp House. Since then, Cary Ann Hearst (Shovels and Rope) Josh Roberts (Josh Roberts and the Hinges) Edwin McCain and Mark Bryan (to name a few) have recorded at the solar studio. Located in the Francis Marion National Forest, the facility is the only solar powered recording and events space in a national forest in the world.

In keeping with her love of intentional community-based organizations, Howle became acquainted in 2013 with Patrick Chapman, founder of woodshedarchive.org. Woodshed Archive is a digital archive that saves live performances of southeastern music. Howle’s contributions to live recordings to the archive are still available.

Howle’s involvement deepened as relationships grew in the Woodshed community. In 2014, The Woodshed Archive became a 501c3 educational non profit corporation. Collaboration with the archive allowed Swamp Sessions to continue its educational platform, including student and community workshops, along with it’s artist recording goals.