Daniel Amos (band)
Daniel Amos was the rock band formed in 1974, by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Deickmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars.
Daniel Amos started out as an acoustic quartet performing in schools and parks in San Jose, California. The band released their first eponymous album in 1976 and enlisted Ed McTaggart on drums. Previously, McTaggart had been the drummer for Bill Sprouse, jr's The Road Home.
By 1977, the band had begun to shed their country sound, which took some fans by surprise, and by 1978 the band had recorded their first entirely rock effort, "Horrendous Disc", with help from newly added percussionist, Alex MacDougall. MacDougall is a well respected percussionist that has toured with Loggins and Messina, Leon Russell and The Beach Boys, among others.
"Horrendous Disc" was delayed by the band's record label at the time, Larry Norman's Solid Rock Records, and was not seen on record store shelves until a week before the release of the band's newly recorded fourth album "Alarma!". "Alarma!" was the first of a four part series of albums entitled "The Alarma! Chronicles", which also included the albums "Doppelganger", "Vox Humana", and "Fearful Symmetry". By the end of the series, new band members Tim Chandler and Greg Flesch joined the band to fill vacant positions previously held by Dieckmeyer and Chamberlain. Keyboardist Rob Watson would also occasionally join the band in the studio or on the road.
In 2001, DA released what many critics called their best album to date, "Mr Buechner's Dream", named after author Frederick Buechner. The album also pays tribute to Walker Percy, T. S. Eliot, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, Lewis Carroll, Dorothy 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
- Doppelganger, 1983 album
- Vox Humana, 1984 album
- Fearful Symmetry, 1986 album
- Darn Floor - Big Bite, 1987 album
- Kalhoun, 1991 album
- MotorCycle, 1993 album
- Bibleland, 1994 album
- Songs of the Heart, 1995 album
- Mr Buechner's Dream, 2001 double CD album