{{short description|American country music singer (born 1956)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Danny Shirley | honorific_suffix = | image = | landscape = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|8|12}} | birth_place = Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. | origin = Nashville, Tennessee | genre = Country | occupation = {{flatlist| * Singer * songwriter }} | instrument = {{flatlist| * Vocals * guitar }} | years_active = 1984–present | label = Amor | current_member_of = Confederate Railroad }}
'''Danny Shirley''' (born August 12, 1956) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer of the country rock band Confederate Railroad, a role he has held since its formation in 1987.
Before the band was founded, Shirley recorded for Amor Records and charted five singles of his own.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|page=380|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref>
In 1994, Shirley co-wrote and sang guest vocals (along with Mark Collie) on "Redneck Heaven", a track from Billy Ray Cyrus's ''Storm in the Heartland'' album.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=Storm in the Heartland |others=Billy Ray Cyrus |year=1994 |type=CD booklet |publisher=Mercury Records |id=314-526 081-2}}</ref>
Shirley is a 1974 graduate of Hixson High School in the Chattanooga suburb of Hixson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2016/jul/15/not-ready-retire-work-just-keeps-coming-confe/375866/|title = Hixson's Danny Shirley and the Confederate Railroad still in demand 40 years after his professional debut|website=Timesfreepress.com| date=July 15, 2016 }}</ref>
==Discography== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- ! style="width:16em;"| Title ! style="width:20em;"| Album details |- ! scope="row"| ''Local Legend'' | * Release date: 1984 * Label: Amor Records |- ! scope="row"| ''I Make the Living'' | * Release date: 1990 * Label: Amor Records |- ! scope="row"| ''Far From Over'' | * Release date: 1990 * Label: Amor Records |- ! scope="row"| ''The Pyramid Collection'' | * Release date: 2005 * Label: Danny Shirley |- |}
==Singles== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:left;" |- ! rowspan="2" style="width:5em;"| Year ! rowspan="2" style="width:28em;"| Single<!--some singles from http://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursc/confederate_railroad.htm --> ! colspan="1"| Peak chart<br />positions |- style="font-size:smaller;" ! style="width:45px;"| US Country<br /><ref name="whitburn"/> |- | 1982 | "Jack Daniels Haze" | — |- |rowspan=3|1984 |"Time Off for Bad Behavior" |— |- | "Love and Let Love" | 72 |- | "Christmas Needs Love to Be Christmas"<BR>{{Small|(featuring the Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church Youth Choir)}} |— |- |rowspan=3|1985 |"Yo Yo (The Right String, but the Wrong Yo-Yo)"<BR>{{small|(with Piano Red)}} |93 |- |"The Ballad of Whitwell Mine" |— |- |"One for the Gipper" |— |- |rowspan=2|1987 |"Deep Down (Everybody Wants to Be from Dixie)" |82 |- |"Going to California" |81 |- |1988 |"I Make the Living (She Makes the Living Worthwhile)" |76 |}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shirley, Danny}} Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:American male singer-songwriters Category:American country singer-songwriters Category:Musicians from Chattanooga, Tennessee Category:Country musicians from Tennessee Category:Singer-songwriters from Tennessee