I've lived my life in two pursuits
To capture time and free the truth
I never asked for all your love
I only asked for you
Sometimes sunshine hits my glass
And answers 'fore I have to ask
How can rainbows draw so many shortest paths?

1 Leaves Are Burning
2 Drawing Board
3 Go Ugly Early
4 Cliff Song
5 Around the Waist
6 Adios to Tejasito
7 Tales of Sweet Odysseus
8 Emigrant, Mt
9 California's On Fire
10 Song for Judy & Bridget
11 Company of Friends
12 Trouble Comes Calling

Little Grey Sheep is Danny's fifth album. Recorded and produced in Charlottesville, VA at the home of Paul Curreri. This album holds true to Danny's aesthetic of intimate production. The arrangements are sparse and organic and tasteful and serve as delicate backdrops for the Songs. Featured prominently on many of the tracks is the ethereal vocal harmony of the amazing Joia Wood . . . back from musical hiatus.

"Born and raised in Austin, country/folk singer-songwriter Danny Schmidt parlays an aggressive acoustic guitar style and a yearning, yowling vocal delivery into a unique charisma that's both evocative and oddly comforting. Little Grey Sheep, Schmidt's fifth effort, is a collection of orphaned songs, some deemed too askew to fit in with whatever album he was then working on. Together, these dozen cuts resonate because of their peculiarity, presenting Schmidt as a keen observer of life's inconsistencies. "I never asked for all your love/I only asked for you," sings Schmidt on "Drawing Board," one of several striking ballads on the disc. Like Richard Thompson and Townes Van Zandt, Schmidt writes with a clarity that's never verbose or flashy, just simple words attempting to unearth simple truths. Switching from the Gaelic-influenced "Tales of Sweet Odysseus" to the ominous backwoods folk of "Leaves Are Burning," Schmidt finds hope in the unlikeliest of places. Although his talent should secure him a wider audience, Schmidt seems to relish his position as an outsider. From the comical cover art to the stylistic hodgepodge of songs and delivery, Little Grey Sheep is exactly what the title suggests, a fascinating mutt of a record in search of a good home." -Darryl Smyers, Dallas Observer.

Danny writes:
Little Grey Sheep had an oddball path to fruition. To say the least. Most of the songs on the album had been orphaned at some point in their lifetimes. They span the course of seven years . . . and at some point, each had been deemed too far askew to fit neatly, side-by-side, along its peers . . . and each was consequently pared from the album of the era in which it might rightly have belonged. And that's not to say that the songs themselves are any weaker . . . in fact, some are my favorites. And it's not to say that they didn't belong in the public ear . . . because I felt like they did. It's just that they didn't fit, thematically, with the other albums I was making. But I had the realization one day, when I was updating my list of "available songs," that this bevy of grey sheep songs had grown to an album-sized flock . . . and that their lack of unifying theme was, in fact, a unifying theme in and of itself. What pulled these songs together was the same thing that had previously culled them from the rest of the flock . . . and that's that each has a very personal meaning for me, and each came from a very particular episode in my life. And I realized that that's what had made them sit uncomfortably next to my other songs . . . their very tight focused and personal nature . . . whereas the songs I was putting on those other records were more narrative and generalized and abstract. My last album was called "Parables" and drew off the archtypal world, the generalized human experience. Little Grey Sheep draws off of my particular world and my particular experience.