David Mallett
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David Mallett is a singer-songwriter best known for his authorship of the popular tune "Garden Song," made famous by Arlo Guthrie. He has recorded for indepenent record labels for most of his career. A resident of Maine for most of his life, in the early 1990s he relocated to Nashville, and released a few albums with the folk and blues label Vanguard. He has since moved back to Maine.
He has released eleven albums:
- David Mallett (1978)
- Pennsylvania Sunrise (1979)
- Hard Light (1981)
- Open Doors and Windows (1983)
- For a Lifetime (1988)
- This Town (1993)
- In the Falling Dark (1995)
- Parallel Lives (1997)
- Ambition (1999)
- Artist in Me (2003)
- Midnight on the Water (2006)
His songs have been recorded by John Denver, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul & Mary and Bok, Trickett, and Muir, among others.