"Danielle Howle is a Southern storyteller with a gorgeous sense of melody and a voice that should be pouring out of sterios everywhere... but she is true to the underground rock community that first nurtured her and has not made the leap to televised fame. If she never gets there, consider yourself lucky to have found her, she is one to tresure." -NEW YORK TIMES

"I like to think of myself as a photographer that uses melody and words in place of film and camera. I just take pictures of time." -Danielle Howle

Danielle Howle (born in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American folk-rock singer/songwriter. She started out as frontwoman for the Columbia band Lay Quiet Awhile, then released some solo albums and some with her backing band The Tantrums, including Host for the Notes on the Daemon Records label. The title track of that album appeared in a book/CD called Coming of Age in Babylon by Doug DeBias which was released by Shut Eye Records in 1999.

Howle has earned comparisons to Flannery O'Connor, Patsy Cline, and Nina Simone. She has earned praise from Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, who released four of her albums on her indie label Daemon Records, and tapped her for backup on two songs on her 2001 solo album "Stag." Ani DiFranco called Howle "a melodically nimble being." She has toured with DiFranco, the Indigo Girls, and Elliott Smith, and played some second-stage dates on Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair, as well as opening for Bob Dylan in Columbia. She has also released records on Simple Machines, Edisto Records, and Kill Rock Stars.

In 2001, she began doing educational shows and programming at high schools and universities around the country, including Penn State University and the College of Charleston. Her songs have also been included in documentaries and other films, including Glissando, The Station Agent, and Intentions.

Her most recent album Thank You Mark, produced by Mark Bryan (Susan Cowsill, Mary Karlzen), manages to capture Howle's essence and vivid personality. Accompanied by top-notch musicians such as Sam Bush, Bryon House, Tim Vaill, John Young (Spottiswoode and His Enemies), Les Hall (Howie Day), and including a Stax-Volt-inspired duet with fellow South Carolinian Darius Rucker, Howle’s songwriting shows an artist at the peak of her craft, skillfully blending Americana with R&B, classic jazz and a dash of swing, all stamped with her uniquely Southern sensibility.