Daniel Amos began retired as an acoustical quartet performing around bible studies & coffee bar across out Southern California. A band freed their 1st, eponymic album (Daniel Amos) in 1976 (produced by Al Perkins) and enlisted Ed McTaggart on drums. Antecedently, McTaggart experienced been a drummer for Bill Sprouse Jr.'s The Road Home.

By 1977, a band got begun to shed their united states healthy, by using the album Scattergun Angel, which took a few fans by surprise. Shotgun Angel was half country & half rock-opera. A 'Side Two' of the LP featured lush orchestrations & the string of rock songs linked together within how else that was remindful of The Beatles Sgt. Peppers album. the band potentially mass produced the total of concert performances at this instance using a fully orchestra backing the two.

By 1978 the band had recorded their number one completely rock effort, Horrendous Disc, with assist from either new added percussionist, Alex MacDougall, and keyboardist Mark Cook. MacDougall occurs as swell respected percussionist that has toured by owning Loggins and Messina, Leon Russell and The Beach Boys, among others. Cook experienced been a keyboardist for the Warner Brothers band Spring Canyon.

Horrendous Disc was delayed by the band's record label at a period, Larry Norman's Solid Rock Records, and was does'nt seen in record store shelves until a week prior to the release of the band's fresh recorded 4th album ¡Alarma! in 1981. ¡Alarma! was the number one of the tetrad a share series of albums entitled The ¡Alarma! Chronicles, which also included the albums Doppelgänger, Vox Humana, and Fearful Symmetry. the band raised brow on the tour that followed every release, by presenting a fully multimedia system event complete sustaining videos screens sychronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band. Per prevent of the series, newly band members Tim Chandler and Greg Flesch joined the b& to fill vacant positions antecedently held by Dieckmeyer and Chamberlain. Keyboardist Rob Watson would also at times join a band in the studio or even on tour.

A band freed Darn Floor-Big Bite in 1987, which to this day many fans assume to become one of their better albums. It began the followup within 1988 but abandoned it in favor of the risk to wash something different. Numerous of the band members became The Swirling Eddies for a string of releases through the early 1990s.

Additionally to recording many albums by The Swirling Eddies, the members of DA returned around 1991 with Kalhoun. 1993's MotorCycle followed, which also marked a go to of Chamberlain, world health organization would lurk yearn plenty for deuce extra DA releases in the 1990s, Bibleland in 1994 and Songs of the Heart in 1995. Songs of the Heart was the concept album that followed the fancied couple a hike down the historic Route 66. A conception was explored within greater detail in the 2002 "book set" entitled Once Everyone Bore Hats.

Inside 1999, the band freed wholly iv area of The ¡Alarma! Chronicles on CD packaged together in a 200 page hardcover book which featured color photos, interviews and the entire ¡Alarma! Story story. A book collection, which is for certain an unusual release in the music globe, received a great deal of praise from either music critics.

Around 2001, DA released what several critics known as their better album up to now, ''Mr Buechner's Dream'', named after author Frederick Buechner. A album likewise pays tribute to Walker Percy, T. S. Eliot, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, Lewis Carroll, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other authors that have inspired DA's lyrics for years.

Discography
Daniel Amos, 1976 debut album Shotgun Angel, 1977 album Horrendous Disc, 1978, 1981 album ¡Alarma!, 1981 album Doppelgänger, 1983 album Vox Humana, 1984 album Fearful Symmetry, 1986 album The Revelation, 1986, re-issued 2000 Darn Floor - Big Bite, 1987 album ''Live Bootleg '82, 1990 Kalhoun, 1991 album MotorCycle, 1993 album Bibleland, 1994 album Preachers From Outer Space!, 1994 An historic night, recorded survive at a Anaheim Convention Center, Easter Weekend 1978 Songs of the Heart, 1995 album Mr Buechner's Dream'', 2001 double CD. Video One entitled: Mr. Buechner's Dream, Video Two entitled: So It Goes.

Videos
Daniel Amos Live in Anaheim 1985, 2003 DVD ''The Making of Mr Buechner's Dream'', 2005 DVD