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David Lindley's new web site is now available: http://www.davidlindley.com - check there for tour dates. (above) David Lindley - image courtesy Jarmo
"Latvis" Latva-Äijö What's the news:Acoustic Guitar magazine has a very good feature on David Lindley in their June 2000 issue. Here's a link to the interview on their web site. The issue also contains tablature for the song "Mercury Blues".David Lindley and Wally Ingram's latest album, "Twango Bango Deluxe" (Ulftone 003) is available directly from David Lindley (see information at the bottom of the page), or by visiting Ulftone's web site. David Lindley is now represented by the Rosebud Agency of San Francisco. They will be developing their web site with more information. For tour dates, check on their Itinerary page.
Please note the new address below. Send your fan mail, correspondence, etc. to this address: David Lindley Inc. Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley performs music that redefines the word "eclectic". Lindley, well known for his many years as the featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of his own band El Rayo-X, has long championed the concept of world music. Lindley's electro-acoustic performances effortlessly combine American folk, blues, and bluegrass traditions with elements from African, Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy and Turkish musical sources. Lindley incorporates an incredible array of stringed instruments, including but not limited to Kona and Weissenborn Hawaiian lap steel guitar, Turkish saz and cumbus, Middle Eastern oud, and Irish bouzouki. The eye-poppingly polyester-clad "Mr. Dave"s uncanny vocal mimicry and demented sense of humor make his between songs banter a highlight of the show.
Lindley and guitarist Henry Kaiser went to Madagascar for two weeks in 1991 and recorded six albums of indigenous Malagasy music (including two collaborative CDs, A World Out Of Time Volumes One and Two on Shanachie), which proved to have a major impact on the world music scene, both for the quality of the Grammy nominated music recorded, and the fair and ethical way the Malagasy musicians were dealt with. Throughout this long and distinguished career, Lindley has displayed his instrumental artistry on the recorded works of Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt, Warren Zevon and many others. In 1990 a chance meeting of Lindley and Hani Naser led to an impromptu jam and an instant decision that "we should take this on the road". The duo recorded two self released "official bootleg" compact discs Live In Tokyo Playing Real Good and Playing Even Better on Pleemhead Audio, which are available through David Lindley Inc. In 1997 David and Hani agreed to go on to different projects. Hani Naser is currently working on a solo recording. Other Lindley LinksThe Rough Guide to Rock has a nice overview of David Lindley's work. Here's a sample of Dave's Weissenborn guitar on the tune "How Can A Poor Man Face Such Times and Live?" (363K .AU) from David Lindley and Hani Naser Playing Even Better, Offical Bootleg #2. David Lindley MerchandiseCompact discs available through mail order
Mail Order InformationEach compact disc is $15.00 USD with a $5.00 USD postage charge. Outside the US and Canada, the CDs are $20.00 USD. Send a check to: David Lindley Inc. |
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David
Lindley grew up in Southern California, first taking up the banjo
as a teenager, and subsequently winning the annual Topanga Canyon
Banjo And Fiddle Contest five times as he explored the American folk
music tradition. Between 1967 and 1971 Lindley founded and lead what
must now be seen as the first world music rock band, the Kaleidoscope.
In 1971 "Mr. Dave" joined forces with