page_title: Dana Countryman
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Dana Countryman / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: A posed shot of The Amazing Pink Things from 1990.
context_page_description: Dana Countryman is an American electronic music composer, songwriter and performer notable for his sustained presence in the Seattle Pop scene as well as his collaborations with French electropop artist Jean-Jacques Perrey. He is also well known as songwriter and performer for The Amazing Pink Things. as well as the publisher for Cool and Strange Music Magazine. Countryman is currently composing, performing and releasing original albums of retro vocal pop. Reviewer John Borack has described Countryman as "a one-man Brill Building," in reference to the New York-based songwriting and recording scene of the 1960s.
context_section_description: Countryman performed with numerous bands and became a songwriter and performer with the group The Amazing Pink Things. The group's satirical approach and vocal harmonies were described by Don Heckman of The Los Angeles Times as "...wacko musical lunacy." Heckman also described the group's performance as "a rare evening of sheer inspiration." The group featured two men and two women doing satirical songs with smooth harmonies somewhat similar to the Manhattan Transfer but without the jazz leanings. Music critic Karen Mathieson in The Seattle Times described the Pink Things as "well-matched vocally."
  In 1987, The Amazing Pink Things appeared on The Late Show with Arsenio Hall, where they performed their song "We're Just Too White." During the years 1996 to 2003, Countryman published a magazine entitled Cool and Strange Music Magazine.
caption: The Amazing Pink Things, 1990:  Clockwise from top, Tricia Countryman, Tami Martin, Dana Countryman, Bob Overman.
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