Daniel Steinbock was born and raised on the California coast north of the Golden Gate, the only child of a sailor and a librarian. A singer-songwriter in the sublime lyrical tradition of Paul Simon, Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) and Neil Young, pre-apocalyptic love songs and spare folk poems fill his songbook with a rare spiritual nakedness. Taking inspiration from American poet-mystics like Mary Oliver and Walt Whitman, his work is illuminated by human ecstasy and suffering that is inseparable from the natural world. Imagine if Whitman had left New York as a young man and wandered West through tent revival spirituals and Delta freedom songs, to grow quiet and haikuist at the feet of giant California Redwoods.

“Out of Blue is a soft-hearted, introspective look at enveloping love that is uncontrollably honest and surreal.”
– No Depression, Journal of Roots Music

Steinbock’s debut studio album, Out of Blue, was primarily recorded live in the rural Pacific Northwest, on the stage of the 100 year-old OK Theatre in Enterprise, Oregon. The record is an exemplar of contemporary American songcraft, painting with colors of rock n’ roll, gospel-soul, country and blues, with features by fellow troubadours John Craigie, Ayla Nereo, and Rainbow Girls.

His previous EPs — Sea Inside and The Blade — each won annual songwriting competitions when he self-released them as a student.