Daniel W. "Danny" Flowers (born 1948) is an American songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist based in Nashville.

He co-wrote "Gulf Coast Highway", recorded by Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Nanci Griffith.

Emmylou Harris' 1975 album, Pieces of the Sky derives its title from a lyric in Flowers' song, "Before Believing".

[2] His father was a mortician who owned the Flowers Funeral Home in Henderson; the family lived in an apartment above the business.

Flowers moved to Virginia Beach in 1968 after dropping out of school to perform on the blues and folk circuit, primarily as a harmonica player.

[3] Flowers was living on Nashville's Blakemore Avenue, sharing the rent with singer Rodney Crowell and Chis Leuzinger.

[6]: 59  In her book, They Came to Nashville, Marshall Chapman recalled spending time with Flowers in that house listening to records and analyzing songs by various artists.

[7] In September, 1978, Flowers and the Don Williams band members were staying at a Sheraton Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I was sitting there in my room, watching The Rockford Files with some hotel stationery beside me, just bored, and I started writing out some verses”.

[2] The Forbidden album showed a much thinner Flowers with short hair, wearing a dark suit with a business look.

The later Food for the Soul album cover revealed long hippie hair, some added pounds, and a full beard.

[2] In a 2014 documentary by The Songwriter (Nashville), Flowers was forthright in discussing that had suffered from chemical dependency but now had decades of sobriety.

As of 2021, he is involved in making an R & B gospel album called The Truth Don't Lie with his wife, Mabel Pleasure Flowers, who plays a Hammond B-3.