Dan Stuart is an American musician best known as the leader/singer/songwriter of 80's post punk, alt-country rock band, Green On Red

Green on Red

Green on Red was an American rock band, formed in the Tucson, Arizona punk scene, but based for most of its career in Los Angeles, California, where it was loosely associated with the Paisley Underground...

 (other members included Chuck Prophet

Chuck Prophet

Chuck Prophet is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. A Californian, Prophet first achieved notice in the American psychedelic/desert rock group Green on Red, with whom he toured and recorded in the 1980s...

, Chris Cacavas and Jack Waterson), and for his teaming with Steve Wynn as Danny & Dusty.

History

Raised in Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

, Dan Stuart founded punk band The Serfers in 1979. The next year the band moved to LA, changed the name to Green On Red, and became associated with the paisley underground

Paisley Underground

Paisley Underground is an early genre of alternative rock, based primarily in Los Angeles, California, which was at its most popular in the mid-1980s.- History :...

 (along with Rain Parade

Rain Parade

The Rain Parade was a band active in the Paisley Underground scene in Los Angeles in the 1980s.-History:The band was founded by college roommates Matt Piucci and David Roback in 1981, originally as The Moving Sidewalks. David's brother Steven Roback joined the band shortly thereafter...

 and The Dream Syndicate). After releasing two EPs, the band recorded their first full album, Gravity Talks

Gravity Talks

-Track listing:#"Gravity Talks"#"Old Chief"#"5 Easy Pieces"#"Deliverance"#"Over My Head"#"Snake Bit"#"Alice"#"Blue Parade"#"That's What You're Here For"#"Brave Generation"#"Abigail's Ghost"#"Cheap Wine"#"Narcolepsy"-Personnel:...

 for Slash Records

Slash Records

Slash Records is a record label in Los Angeles, originally specializing in local and punk rock bands.The label was formed in 1978 by Bob Biggs as an outgrowth of the Los Angeles-based fanzine, Slash. Biggs, a painter, initiated the label with a seven-inch single from The Germs in 1978. A full album...

 in 1983. Green On Red toured America and Europe extensively and released eight more records before disbanding in 1992.In that time, Mr. Stuart worked with producers Jim Dickinson

Jim Dickinson

James Luther "Jim" Dickinson was an American record producer, pianist, and singer who fronted, among others, the Memphis based band, Mudboy & The Neutrons.- Biography :...

, Glyn Johns

Glyn Johns

Glyn Johns is a musician, recording engineer and record producer.-Career:He has worked with such artists as Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Easybeats, The Band, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Clash, The Steve Miller Band, Small Faces, Spooky Tooth, The Ozark...

, and Al Kooper

Al Kooper

Al Kooper is an American songwriter, record producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears , providing studio support for Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965, and also bringing together guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills to...

.

Danny & Dusty recorded and released The Lost Weekend album in 1985.

Post Green On Red, Stuart recorded the album Retronuevo with Al Perry in 1993, and solo effort Can O'Worms in 1995, before largely leaving the music business.

He would return for a Green On Red reunion in 2006, and a second Danny & Dusty record, Cast Iron Soul in 2007.

The Slummers, a band he started with producer JD Foster, released Love Of The Amateur, produced by Italian guitar player/composer Antonio Gramentieri, in 2010.

Mr Stuart currently (2011) lives in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico, and is working on a second solo album.

Discography

Green On Red

• Two Bibles (EP, Green on Red, 1981)
• Green on Red (EP, Down There, 1982)
• Gravity Talks
  Gravity Talks
  -Track listing:#"Gravity Talks"#"Old Chief"#"5 Easy Pieces"#"Deliverance"#"Over My Head"#"Snake Bit"#"Alice"#"Blue Parade"#"That's What You're Here For"#"Brave Generation"#"Abigail's Ghost"#"Cheap Wine"#"Narcolepsy"-Personnel:...
  
  (Slash, 1983)
• Gas Food Lodging (Enigma, 1985)
• No Free Lunch (EP, Mercury, 1985)
• The Killer Inside Me (Mercury, 1987)
• Here Come the Snakes (Mercury, 1988)
• This Time Around (Mercury, 1989)
• Scapegoats (China, 1991)
• The Little Things in Life (China Records 1991)
• Too Much Fun (Off Beat, 1992)
• Archives: What We Were Thinking (Normal Records, 1998)
• Valley Fever — Live at the Rialto (Blue Rose, 2006)
• BBC Sessions (Maida Vale Records, 2007)

Danny & Dusty

• The Lost Weekend (A&M, 1985)
• Cast Iron Soul (Blue Rose, 2007)
• Here's To You, Max Morlock, (Blue Rose 2007)

Al Perry & Dan Stuart

• Retronuevo (Normal,1993)

Dan Stuart

• Can O'Worms (Monkey Hill, 1995)
• Dan Stuart: 4 Songs (Padre Lindo, 2011)

The Slummers

• Love Of The Amateur (Blue Rose, 2010)

External links

• Dan Stuart : Official Site
• Dan Stuart interview - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine
• Green On Red : Official Site
• Robert Christgau: CG: Green on Red
• Danny And Dusty Play It Loose - Los Angeles Times
• The Pop Life; In Green on Red's New 'Killer,' A Nod To Film Noir - New York Times
• Dan Stuart interview
• Dan Stuart - IMDb