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Right Side of Zero
Darryl Purpose
Darryl's first CD. The Voice of James Taylor, the Soul of Willie Nelson and the Brains of Bob Dylan.
Collection Contents
| # | Title | Length | ||
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| 1 |
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Rootwing | 2:27 | Play |
| 2 |
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The Island Song | 3:13 | Play |
| 3 |
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Victory in the Struggle | 3:49 | Play |
| 4 |
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Paint the Sky | 4:32 | Play |
| 5 |
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Sleep | 5:25 | Play |
| 6 |
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Right Side of Zero | 4:16 | Play |
| 7 |
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I Will Run | 3:40 | Play |
| 8 |
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Don't Tear Down | 4:24 | Play |
| 9 |
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I Can't Tell You | 4:38 | Play |
| 10 |
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Where You Can Find Me | 3:39 | Play |
| 11 |
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Miss Yoo | 3:55 | Play |
| 12 |
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Old Rock and Roll Song (Karen's Song) | 5:10 | Play |
| 13 |
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Rootwing Reprise | 0:57 | Play |
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Description
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 .
It is this knack for telling stories that makes the songs of Darryl Purpose stand out. He says, "It emerged when I started doing live shows. I discovered that I could tell a gambling story or a story about the Peace March, and people would react. Then the stories started seeping into the songs.". 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.