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About Me

The Children were always crying in the cattle cars, so you could imagine the surprise of his parents while Daniel Schwartz remained as mute as a jackalope. He didn't utter a single word until he was well into his adolescence. Daniel had taken a liking to his father's ukelele, banging out rough versions of the gypsy songs his family sang around campfires. These were the only noises he made. On the eve of his 13th birthday, the train his family was riding pulled into Nashville. As the others tried to figure out where they would sleep, Daniel wandered into an old theatre. There was a dusty old piano on the stage. His first song poured out of him that night. With the music and words swirling around his dreams, Daniel knew he needed a voice to release the imprisoned thoughts in his mind. As the family reached the deep south of Baton Rouge Louisiana, his dream came true. Alison Wadsworth was a girl unlike any he had met before. She had been raised in the swamps, but set out on her own as soon as she could raise her thumb to hitch hike. Performing on top of an old soap box, Daniel witnessed a sweet fusion of country song and baptist style preaching. Daniel had found his muse, and quit traveling to accompany her during their, now famous street side performances on his ukelele and later, acoustic guitar. It was during this time that Daniel began writing songs more seriously. First Alison sang everything, but after a while, Daniel meekly threw in simple harmonies, until one day the two burst forth in song. The power exuding from their connection was immediately apparent to pianist and vocalist, Peter Burton, who, along with Demian Mason (bass), Tim Arnold (drums), and Jake Weiss (guitar), made up the eclectic band "Cowboy." The band was on a national tour for their second album, Ragweed and Raw Women, and looking for an opener. Peter asked if the duo would join them, and they obliged. It wasn't long before they were all performing together on stage, and Unlikely Cowboy was born. They all currently reside in the mean streets of Philadelphia, where they have developed a reputation as troubadors and are frequently seen marching through the streets singing civil war battle hymns in six part harmony.
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Member Since: 2/9/2005
Band Website: unlikelycowboy.com
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Influences: Neil Young, THE BAND, Nick Drake, Tom Petty, Spinal Tap, Days Away, Wilco, The Ground Became a Church, Prince, Nothing.
Sounds Like: Click below to listen to our LIVE performance on WPRB-Princeton

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Record Label: Ghetto Crush Industries
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

videos, on the PERRSONAL TIP!

oooh, ali's got butterflies in her stomache!hi, by the way! sorry it's been so long. big stuff coming up too, stay tuned... so! here's the dizzeal. we got followed around by a camera crew at the end o...
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:06:00 PST

weeeee!

hanks to the buttloads of people that trekked out to our show on friday at the khyber. we had bleeaaast. it's been a while... we missed you! and to our fabu openers, you were so very lovely. but in th...
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:47:00 PST

unlikely cowboy vs. einstein

hellooooo friends!we missed you oh! so! very much!!so... we just finished our theses on the space/time contunuum, with an emphasis on visualization, directions for future discovery, and a discussion o...
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:41:00 PST

Dan and Tim’s new band

Don't worry, this is no insinuation of any kind of change in the Cowboy, we've just got another band too with Keith from Days Away. We've had some great shows around the northeast these past few days...
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:59:00 PST

my band makes me cry....

...yes, i know. i'm already entirely too emotional... but this was the real deal.i was listening to our new tracks in the car the other day and i just started bawling. i had to pull over even. it's TH...
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:01:00 PST

Seems like ages...

We know that we've been claiming that our new album will be out soon for a while now. We even had to deal with major line-up changes while we were working on it the first time. That was a real bummer....
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:40:00 PST

oh, blessed be thestudio!

weee! we're going into the studio next weekend. we couldn't be more ecstatic. we're recording the whole album live. get ready for new fabu-delish music!!!!!we can't wait!giddy up!...
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:37:00 PST

i love my band!

we're practicing all these totally new amazing new songs right now and i wanted to share this with all of you. our new songs are soooo rad. i can't stop smiling. love,ali-cat.
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:14:00 PST

country myspace... it’s real and OH! SO! RAD!

check it out all ye country fans........we just found out about DIGITAL RODEO and set up our own lil' account. major fun! check us out, and be our neighbor......
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:19:00 PST

We are all Folked Up!

Holy Crap!That was the greatest weekend of all time. Thanks to all who joined us at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Thanks Helen Licht! We are stuck on Perma-smile. We met many amazing new friends and...
Posted by Unlikely Cowboy on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:40:00 PST