Dan Schaefer

St. Louis native Dan Schaefer was voluntarily transplanted to Nashville in the mid-?90s, and a hook-heavy pop writing style was treated to an infusion of folk, country and Americana influences. His songs have been cut by independent artists including Mark Hatt ("When You Hold Me Like This"), Cindy Standage ("Deeper Blue," "Never Met a Man") and Kathy Hussey ("Blue Foolish Moon"). While writing for other artists was always the plan, Schaefer became active in the Nashville music community and eventually succumbed to requests to also work as an artist.

He can often be found playing tunes at random watering holes in and around Nashville and elsewhere. He's hit the circuit as a finalist at festivals including the Gum Tree Festival in Tupelo, Mississippi, and the Riverbluff Acoustic Music Festival in Ashland City, Tennessee. The songwriter/singer's imaginary autobiography Three Cuts and a Day Job is still a work in progress.

Dan Schaefer's 2007 release So Romantic spawned three internet radio hits (?Love Like Strangers,? ?You Move Me? and ?Mr. Right?) and was named Album of the Year by the Nashville Independent Music organization. The long-awaited 2010 follow-up Wild Ideas is a collection of country-flavored pop tunes inspired by life, love and wide-open natural spaces. The Nashville-based singer/songwriter rests thoughtful, smart lyrics in a sparse, mostly-acoustic environment rich in melodic hooks and free of modern trappings and studio tricks. Wild Ideas is country, pop and brown-eyed r&b--great songs brought to life by one of Nashville's top independent voices.