First Day of school (1st grade - St. Louis Catholic School, Groveton, VA)
901 Sable Dr. Alexandria, VA 22303
(NOTE: the city renumbered the houses when I was about 9 and our address at
901 Sable Dr. became 5800 Sable Drive)

First Day of school - September, 1963 (7th grade - Mark Twain Intermediate - Alexandria, VA)
5800 Sable Dr. Alexandria, VA 22303
(formally 901 Sable Dr. until about 1959

First Day of school (10th grade - Thomas Edison High School - Alexandria, VA)
5800 Sable Dr. Alexandria, VA 22303

My 16th birthday party (and last for Alexandria, VA
I'm playing the blue Fender Jaguar guitar
(10th grade - Thomas Edison High School - Alexandria, VA)

We left Alexandria, VA and arrived in
Sierra Vista, AZ June 5th, 1967. I was sixteen
5800 Sable Dr. Alexandria, VA 22303 - as it is today (February 2008)
(Picture courtesy of Tara Islas)

Me and Jinxie - my childhood dog that came with us to Arizona in 1967
When I was 10 she road in my bicycle basket when I had my paper-route at 5800 Sable Dr. in Alexandria, VA
Summer 1970
1131 Cardinal Ave. Sierra Vista, AZ 85635

First Day of Senior year of College - August 1972 (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)
1131 Cardinal Ave. Sierra Vista, AZ 85635

Composing on Flores St. Tucson, AZ - 1972 (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)

Master's Composition Recital - May 1974 Board says, "Danny Simpson"
(University of Arizona, Crowder Hall, Tucson, AZ)

Newspaper clipping mother's dated: April 25, 1975

San Carlos, California
2006

With first-born Frances Marie Simpson & Mother
Sierra Vista, AZ Winter 1977

Driving from Tucson to Sierra Vista, AZ 1970

Sierra Vista, AZ
Recording in bathroom; 1969

Beloved Knabe Grand Piano

Beloved Ludwig Drum Set

Beloved Yamaha FG-300 Acoustic Guitar with Rose pickguard
Christmas 1972, Sierra Vista, AZ

Same guitar...April 2008, San Carlos, CA

Beloved Fender Jaguar
Sierra Vista, AZ 1968

Halloween Dance
Sierra Vista, AZ 1968
Our lead singer, Mike Canter, had a crew cut at that period so he showed up with this cool wig. ha ha. Love it.
That's good friend Randy Brauer on bass and me in background with "beloved Fender Jaguar" of previous pic.
It had a "troll doll" hanging from the stock of guitar not shown in pic -
Hey, what the heck kind of pants are those I'm wearing?!? Plaid?!? Ha ha!
Oh wow, I just noticed another guitar stock peeking in far left of picture - who was that? Tom Peru?

Halloween Dance
Sierra Vista, AZ 1968
This is the reverse side of the above pic showing how I even then (as now) meticulously date EVERYTHING. ;)
This is amazing because I only arrived in Sierra Vista June 1967 so it didn't take long to get in a band.
By the next year we were rockin'.
One of my best memories of Mike Canter is him playing a song in his bedroom for me I'd never heard before by the Troggs - "From Home" -
I love that song like crazy and always think of him when I hear it or think about it.

Nashville home we purchased in Hillsboro Village
2701 W. Linden
July 2006

National Association of Songwriters International (NSAI) headquarters
The "Music Mill", Nashville Tennessee; July 2006

Mary and I at the "Music Mill"; July 2006

NSAI Steps, July 2006

July 2006
Studio B, Nashville, Tenn.
Piano played by Elvis; also Floyd Cramer on "Last Date"

1st Nashville Buddy (& Realtor), Mark Haining

With renowned songwriter and songwriting coach, Jai Josefs
credits include more than 30 recordings with such companies as MCA, RCA, Motown, and Disney and hit artists like Jose Feliciano.

Daniel Leo Simpson & Jai Josefs
Jai's songs have been used in TV shows on every major network (CSI, Brothers and Sisters, What About Brian, Monk, Cold Case etc.) as well as over a dozen major motion pictures with such stars as Harrison Ford, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, and Billy Bob Thornton.

Hero & Hit Songwriter Byron Hill
Fool Hearted Memory, George Strait; Size Matters, Joe Nichols; Born Country, Alabama

Hit Songwriter Steve Seskin
("Life's a Dance" John Michael Montgomery, "Grown Men Don't Cry" Tim McGraw)

Hit Songwriter Kye Flemming
(Sleeping Single in a Double Bed, I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool, Barbara Mandrell; Smokey Mountain Rain", "I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World" Ronnie Milsap)

With Hit Songwriter Mark Cawley
(Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, Rick Trevino, Des'ree, Kathy Mattea)

Professor of lyric writing at Berklee College of Music Pat Pattison
San Francisco, May 2006

Professor of lyric writing at Berklee College of Music Pat Pattison
Ft Mason; San Francisco, November 2006

With Hit Songwriter & author Jason Blume
(Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys,Collin Raye, the Oak Ridge Boys)

Prosperity Evangelist Mike Murdock and I at Las Vegas Hilton
January 2006