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Darryl Purpose

When Darryl Purpose was 16 years old, his mother put a book called Beat the Dealer in his Christmas stocking. He interrupted a guitar major program, went to Las Vegas as a teenager, began a career as professional card player. He was soon known as the worlds fastest card counter. Banned from casinos on six continents, he still calls this the only real job Ive ever had. Years later, he took time off to walk across the country for peace, and fell in with a bad crowd musicians & peaceniks which culminated, improbably sharing the stage with the likes of Santana and Bonnie Raitt in the first stadium rock concert in the former Soviet Union.

In 1996, inspired by his work with a traveling band of musical activists and working his way out of a brush with the law (thats another story), Darryl began to tour nationally as a solo singer-songwriter. Eight years, six CDs and a thousand-plus shows later, he was headlining venues like the Freight and Salvage, Club Passim, McCabes, The Bluebird Cafe, The Kennedy Center, and the Kerrville Folk Festival Main Stage.