Daniel Tashian

Daniel Tashian (born 1974) is an American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has spent ten years writing and producing for Big Yellow Dog Music.^[2]

Tashian's music career began when he was 19 years old and signed his first deal on Elektra Records.^[1] His first album was produced by T Bone Burnett, and he also started a band called The Silver Seas (originally called the Bees) in 1999.^[1] The success of that band lead them to an appearance on Later... with Jools Holland.^[3]

In 2018, he co-produced Kacey Musgraves' critically acclaimed album Golden Hour in addition to co-writing 7 of the album's 13 songs, including "Slow Burn", "Happy and Sad", "Love is a Wild Thing", and the album's title track, "Golden Hour".^[4] Tashian received two Grammys,^[5] one ACM award,^[6] and one CMA award^[7] for his work on the album. Other production credits include Tenille Townes' Living Room Worktapes EP,^[8] Jessie James Decker's On This Holiday album,^[9] and work for artists including A Girl Called Eddy, Trent Dabbs, Emily West, Lily & Madeleine, Lissie, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, and Sad Penny.

Other notable songwriting credits include his first number one song, "Hometown Girl" by Josh Turner,^[10] "White Horse" by Tenille Townes,^[11] "Good Night" by Billy Currington,^[12] and "The Bees" by Lee Ann Womack.^[13] He has also had several sync placements in hit TV shows like Pretty Little Liars, Nashville, Reign, and Scorpion (as well as the film Our Idiot Brother).^[14] His band, the Silver Seas, also had a song featured on the TV series Breaking Bad.

In 2019, Tashian released I Love Rainy Days, a children's album for which he wrote and produced all the music and painted all associated artwork,^[15] following in 2020 with Mr. Moonlight, another children's album.^[16] In July 2020, Tashian collaborated with Burt Bacharach on the EP Blue Umbrella.