Danny Fitzgerald was a street musician, living and performing mostly between New York City and Paris.
[5] Earlier in his life, he was friends with a street poet named Big Brown, who Bob Dylan called "the best he ever heard."
His memories were recalled for a 2015 WNYC investigation by Jill Lepore into what happened to Big Brown.
"[7] His third and last album was released in December, 2013, with tracks alternating between recorded songs and excerpts of his stories, extracted from interviews he did with long-time collaborator, Joe Flood.
He was the subject of two documentaries, Jazbo Gross' Busker, (2010)[10] which was nominated for a Danish DOX award,[11] and Working for the Good Life, for French Television.