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Artist
Dao Strom
12+ albums
folkexperimentalambientguitaramericana
about
“The simple happenstances of an artist’s home and origin can prove to be the incubator that creates pure and lovely music. Such is the case with Austin’s Dao Strom. Born in Saigon, and raised in the historic Gold Rush mecca of Placerville, California, her version of Americana is rich with a tender melancholy and gentle darkness. Send Me Home is full of history, recalling grand traditions of country-western and Appalachian folk and steeped in mountain and gospel imagery. Dao Strom is the real thing.” - Greg Trout, Magnaphone Music Vietnam-born, California-raised Dao Strom is a truly unique writer. Critically acclaimed as both a folk songwriter and a literary author, this diversely talented artist tells her stories of Americana in gentle, spare, insightful tones. Dao's songs have been praised for their “mountain music” authenticity as well as for their originality, likening her songwriting and vocal delivery to classic songstresses such as Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, and Hazel Dickens. Dao's debut album, Send Me Home, was recorded entirely live on a late-50s era 2-inch analog tape machine by Austin, TX producer Brian Beattie (Okkervill River, Shearwater, Daniel Johnston) and released in 2004. It caught the attention of No Depression publisher Grant Alden out of a pile of CDs for review. Dao has been featured in No Depression and played at SXSW 2006. In 2008, she released her second solo album, everything that blooms wrecks me. Around that time sh
