Dear Dan, I have just discovered that you are ill and am saddened by this discovery.  You and your music have meant so much to me over the years. I always felt that you went through life's ups and down before me and then guided me through my experiences with the music from your heart. Even though I did not come from a musical family, "Leader of the Band", to me, was my dad.  Every time I hear this song today, I am gifted a few minutes of him. I thank you for all of your music and all of the memories I have of your concerts at the then Garden State Art Center. I am sending you my thoughts and prayers and my thanks for all of the music that you shared with us. ~ Jill in Manalapan, NJ

Hi Dan- I have no idea how thoughts of you popped into my head this evening, but I decided to take this opportunity to write. Perhaps, it was because I have been recently thinking of how sad it is that there are really no summer concerts worth seeing this year.  I remember, in the past, how much I would look forward to seeing you perform during the touring season. Some years, you brought your whole band; other times, it was more of an "unplugged" type of concert setting. But, in any situation, it was always good, quality, soulful music that could touch your heart and bring a tear or a smile to your face. I hope this note finds you feeling ok. I'm a musician myself, and I know it must be tough to be held back personally & musically by this disease. I will continue to pray for your health and well-being, and vow to keep your old songs playing,
while we anxiously await your return to the studio/stage someday soon. Love ~ Tanya Best (Bluffton, OH)

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for all of the wonderful songs that you have shared with all of us throughout the years.  Your music is timeless and is just as beautiful and sensitive as it was when you first put out your albums. I listen to your songs every day as an inspiration in my own life and I am very grateful for them! I wish you and your wife the best, and I sincerely hope that you pull through this difficult time. We are all pulling for you!  All The Best ~-Abby de Roche, Ishpeming, MI

Hey Dan! I appreciate your personal and very profound thoughts regarding your situation.  Your openness will definitely save lives!  Thanks for sharing and I wish you well. Godspeed and cheers! ~ manny

Dear Dan, I absolutely love you!!! Two weekends ago Sunday I drove to Charlottesville alone and popped in your "Phoenix" CD. It was a most unexpected trip that turned out to be the greatest day I had, had in years! I contribute that wonderful day to your CD which warmed my heart and filled me with hope and motivation! 

As I drove up the highway I felt so FREE, like I could do anything or go anywhere and everything would be alright. I felt like a bird soaring through the heavens while driving and listening to "Phoenix" I felt so blessed by your music and by the beauty of the Mountains and the scenery all around me. OH it was so glorious! I also unexpectedly went to "Monticello" to visit with "Thomas Jefferson" it was a fun tour of his house and land and was so informative. Again, there was so much beauty all around me.

I have been listening to your music pretty much since that day (more frequently than I have been) and it raises my spirit and gives me such strength and motivation. I also have a deep sense of freedom and Peace when I hear your golden throated voice singing "to me" (in my dreams)! Thank you so much for sharing your gifts and insights with us, your adoring fans!  I can only hope that you are having wonderful beauty filled days and enjoying them to the fullest! My thoughts and prayers are with you all most every day Dan. I do pray that you will be healed and that you are doing very well. Many thanks to you and much Love. I miss you TOURING soooo much!!!! My summers are not the same with out you! ~ Laura Boughner Richmond

Dear Dan, What wonderful gifts God has blessed you with and what a wonderful singer/songwriter God has blessed all of us with. I was listening to Twin Sons tonight with my wife and followed up later with several selections from Phoenix and Exiles. Your artistry is amazing. I am saying a prayer for you tonight. Thanks for all the music!! ~ Bobby

Hi Dan, Just found the web page (searching for tour dates) and was sorry to read of your diagnosis.  My family will keep you in our prayers.  I know the treatments are difficult but don't give up.....you still have music to make!!  Praying for your healing and strength and peace for you and your family. ~ Ray -- Arkansas.

I want to thank you for writing the most beautiful songs!  They were introduced by a very dear friend "way back" in 79.  The songs made me cry and filled me with hope and love!  Your songs are very visual and that is how I write when I used to write poems.   My prayers are with you and believe in healing!! ~ Angel

Dan, I'm wishing you well and a speedy recovery!! You have brought me through alot of tough times with your music and are still doing so today. I've seen you several times and you always put on an excellent, excellent show!!! You have been my favorite artist since the "Home Free" album. May God bless you, Dan, and never give up!!! ~ Doug Smith

Dear Dan, Just wanted to add my good wishes to you and your family.  I just found the web site today  when I was looking to see if you were in concert anywhere close. You have been an inspiration to me and my husband for years.  I have loved your music from the very beginning.  The first time I saw you in concert was back when you toured with The Eagles ( I didn't even know much about them, I went to see you ) Our wedding song was "Longer" - which I am sure was a wedding song for hundreds of others.  Have faith ,God is an Awesome God.  He has plans for you and He loves you.  I know you have fulfilled one of your purposes in this life through the beautiful words and music you wrote.  My husband has always said you were the best.  There are not that many artists that actually write , compose and sing their own works.   I pray that your load be light.  I am thankful that you have family and friends to be with you. Make the most of each day and trust in the Lord.  Sincerely ~ Joyce Fisher

Dear Dan - Just recently I found a concert video of yours on YouTube singing "Same Old Lang Syne", one of my favorite songs of all time. This song for some reason really touches me and the story in the song doesn´t mirror anything that I have experienced. However, the chords, the lyrics and the melody and of course your sweet gentle voice really touches me and makes me literally weep. How can one song do this to anyone? It is mystifying and beautiful.
 
Years ago I had a copy of The Innocent Age, which was a great collection of songs. "Ghosts". "Only the Heart May Know". Truly touching and unforgettable. And then there is "Longer", again another song that brings tears to my eyes and makes my heart well up with love. Dan, you have am immense gift and thank you so much for sharing it with the world. I hope you to continue to do so. I would love to see you in concert some day, but if not that is okay. Know that are you loved by many and that you are a brilliant star. My best thoughts to you and your family during this illness. ~ Mark in Calgary

Hi Dan, when I was in college, long ago, a friend introduced me to your music, and I was completely mesmerized by the eloquence of your words.  I used to listen to "To The Morning" every morning I woke up, and it gave me hope each day.  Like so many others, my life was changed forever by the suicide of my brother.  It haunts me to this day some thirty three years  later.  Your music touch a place in me that made me feel as though I still had some connection to my brother, Bill.  I cannot adequately convey to you here how much that meant to me.  There are so many songs that I used to swear you must have written just for me, I bet I'm not alone there!  At any rate, I continue to listen to your music especially on those long trips back home. You have kept me company for many years.  I hope with all my might that you are doing well.  I have seen you in concert many times, and I always wished I would be lucky enough to actually meet you, I knew that would never happen,  but if it had, I would have thanked you for all that your music and lyrics have done to help me to look within myself for the answers of questions that before had plagued me.  You and your family are always in my prayers. Much love ~ Meg Castellow

Hi Dan, I pulled out your music last night, sat and listened to it, its always amazing Thank you again. I hope your feeling better, all good thoughts for you.. ~ Laura in Santa Fe

Dear Dan, I was deeply saddened to read on your website your battle with prostate cancer.    I just wanted you to know that, like many, your music has served as a soundtrack to my life.  Your Netherlands album remains my favorite of all time.   You are in my prayers. Best wishes ~ Dean Kautzmann

Dear Dan,  I trust the good Lord has kept you safe. Now, "too long the strings have been silent". We miss you, come back to us ! Love in Christ ~ Annie, St. Louis.

Dan, Your music has been the sound track of my life!  My husband and I courted to your music and fell in love and now have a handsome 16 yr old son! My husband has suffered serious health issues but this June was well enough to take our son to Colorado and hike!  They shot over 200 photos which we had made into a slide show and the background music is Nether Lands!   Thank you, Dan for sharing your music and making a beautiful sound bed for many special moments of our lives. ~ The Scheuer family, Nashville, TN

Hi Dan, just a hello, thanks for the music and memories, and continued good health to you. I have been a loyal fan since 1972 and would  go to see you when you appeared at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ and your other appearances in the NYC area. Your vinyl albums still get played regularly here , although they have become a little scratched up over the years.

Directly due to your diagnosis and advice from your website I reluctantly got my first prostate exam at age 58.  I had no symptoms or trouble with my prostate that I was aware of. The doctor found mine to be cancerous and the prostate was radically removed recently.  The result of my first PSA  test (post surgery) was zero. Over the years you given me a wonderful appreciation for your music and now the advice from your website has saved my life.

I wish I had the way with words that comes so naturally to you but I haven't been blessed with that gift. I just wanted to send you my best wishes, thanks for everything, and I pray for your continued health. ~ Ed T, Cookeville, TN

My dearest poet...I search for news of your condition and am uplifted to hear none! No news IS good news! Just a note to tell you, once again, that you are still in my prayers and I still ask for complete healing because the world is just a little kinder with you in it. I've been a fan since I was in my teens and I turn (GULP!) fifty this year. Each year I've grown in my appreciation of music and poetry because of you. Sadly, I'm facing a second (and last) divorce, this time from a 20 year marriage that produced two beautiful children. Your music is always beautiful and lyrics deep and moving and thus you are my 'muse' ... my poet. Blessings to you both, I know you'll live a long and happy life. You will always be in my prayers and I will always love you. Warmest thoughts ~ Judi Dupree, Clearwater, FL

Dan, thank you for your music that you've shared. I have many happy memories with your music as the sound track to my teenage years. "Hard To Say" has some very special importance for me. It  was of great comfort in a time of loss. My prayers will be with you and your family in this time of trial. May  God bless and comfort you all. Sincerely ~ Mike in S. Oregon

Dear Dan and family, I just today learned that you have been ill and sincerely hope things are going well .  I've been a fan for many, many  years (Captured Angel and Souvenirs are two of my most prized possessions)  and have been deeply touched by your music and lyrics.  I have spent the last 30 years in a nursing career which has taught me the important  things in life.  It's not the money we've earned or the house we bought but  the smile  we enabled or solace we provided
that touches the  heart.  You must be so proud that your life's path has been so successful.  Thank you for allowing me and so many others into your world through your music.  You have certainly touched my heart. I hope you are in improving health and enjoying life. ~ Donna Davis

Hey Dan- I hope you're doing better and totally cured!  I heard that lycopene in tomatoes is a wonder for prostate cancer!  Have you heard?  If I were you I'd overdose on the stuff.  Miss seeing you on the stage.  Please hurry and get well.   Come back to your devoted fans and entertain us with the magic of your God-given talent.  You're my favorite singer and songwriter and have been for 30 years!  You've also been a friend to me through your music.  Take care of yourself-hope to meet you again someday.  God bless.  ~ Joy Haaland-Colorado Springs, Co

Dan, your words are the voice of humanity at its finest and your  music fills ours souls with pure emotion. I thank you for being the voice of my own heart and I send only the best thoughts out to the universe for  you. Be strong and know that so many people around the world feel what you  feel. That love connection you sought for so many years was actually there  all the time in every one of us. Love of the soul is so much deeper than love of  the body. Know you are well and deeply loved.

Dear Dan, My earliest memories of your music were during those paralyzing times facing the transitioning into adulthood. Sitting in the darkness of my folks' summer porch, listening to the rain beating against the windows, rolling back and forth in that weighty rocker, agonizing about what I should do with my life. Your music, your poetry gave me a respite, a settling peace, and eventually a hopeful direction. You had a unique wisdom, a soul that seemed so highly evolved for your years. I've wondered so often what you were really like as a person beyond your music. A supporter of wildlife, the earth, peace, democracy and personal freedom I've read. A sailor, a traveler, drawn to both the mountains and to the sea. A cat lover. I've wondered if you are quiet or funny. Or both. I guess you have been a true friend, one I would have like to have actually known, if that makes any sense. Thank-you for all that you are and for all that you have meant to each of us. You've made this world a far better place and we love you in ways you might never know. May your journey be easier and may the comfort you've provided us now come back to you exponentially. Blessings, love, and light to you and to Jean. We keep you in our hearts and pray for your full recovery. ~ KC

Some of my very fondest life memories were  in Breckenridge, Colorado. A special moment occurred out of the blue when a handsome young man entered a popular watering hole-"Tobies Jug" I believe it was called then- back in the good old 70's! He was easily persuaded by the band performing that evening to sit in for a set. Of course the place went totally nuts!!! I've gotta tell you, you caused quite a disturbance (so to speak) in my sleep habits for awhile after that!! I now live in Denver and frequent Red Rocks whenever possible-- YOU ARE THERE and always will be-- its your place, Dan!! Your songs were with me and my father during his final hours on this earth. Your  ''Nether Lands" helped so very much to bring us peace... thank you!! Love and prayers to you and your family. Stay strong, keep fighting and know we love you--Very,very much!!! Tons of us are "Missing You". So--we'll see you at Red Rocks again --okay? Forever ~ Donna, Denver, Colorado