Richard Daigle

Website: Richard Daigle

Entry song: Baggage

Originally from New Orleans, Richard Daigle is a retired writer/editor who moved to Chattanooga in 2019 and shortly thereafter created Chattanooga Song Circle, a listening room environment concert series for local artists. He released his first album, “Average Joe,” in 2020 and he has performed locally at such venues as Chattanooga Aquarium, Chattanooga market and Slick’s. Daigle’s songwriter hero is John Prine, an artist he interviewed and spent time with as a newspaper reporter when he and Prine were both much younger. Upon Prine’s death, he wrote “John Prine, A Friend of Mine,” which is included on his album. One reviewer said the album was “filled with toe-tapping tracks with deep lyrics.”