David Lindley

May 22, 2015
Jammin Java
Vienna, VA
USA

Lostbrook 2.0 Volume 98

Source: CA-11(cards)>CA-9200>Sony M10(24/48)
Location: 15' from stage-right stack

Transfer: Sony M10>Micro SDHC>PC>Sound Forge 9.0(resample, dither, track)>
WAV 16/44.1>Trader's Little Helper>FLAC(level 8)

Taper/Transfer/Notes: Lostbrook
Covers/Notes: ethiessen1

Set 1/Disc 1:

01 Intro (1:20)
02 Mercury Blues (9:34) (Douglas/Geddins)
03 The Johnson Boys (6:51) (Trad.)
04 Well, Well, Well (10:53) (Bob Dylan/Danny O'Keefe)
05 Pretty Polly (13:07) (Trad.)
06 The Indifference Of Heaven (7:07) (Warren Zevon)

Set 2/Disc 2:

07 Intro to Mutineer (2:53)
08 Mutineer* (6:49) (Warren Zevon)
09 Meatgrinder Blues (15:26) (David and Rosanne Lindley)
10 New Minglewood Blues** (14:51) (Noah Lewis)
11 The Cuckoo (10:20) (Trad.)

Encore 1:

12 Brothers Under The Bridge (7:37) (Springsteen)

Encore 2:

13 Bon Temps Rouler (6:01) (Clarence Garlow)

* Intro includes The Parting Glass (Tommy Makem)
**Includes 45 Pistol Blues (Walter Roland) "and some things in the beginning"

David Lindley - vocals, Weissenborn lap steel guitars, bouzouki, electric oud

Lostbrook notes:

A friend of mine emailed me his list of upcoming shows and didn't notice that he had purchased tickets for two concerts on the same night - this one, and The Doobie Brothers. When I pointed this out to him, he chose the Doobies and I got a free pair of tickets for David Lindley. I knew little about him other than by reputation, so this gig was a learning experience for me. It was a great show, full of intoxicating lap steel guitar and other exotic instruments. Of course the most exotic thing on stage by far was Mr. Dave himself, who - as mentioned in a story between songs - just might have flown in from Mars.

Ethiessen1's notes:

Like most folks, the first time I heard David Lindley play was with Jackson Browne as a sideman on the For Everyman and Late For The Sky albums. The first time I saw him play was October 23, 1976 at William & Mary Hall, at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA as he was an intregal part of Jackson's band on The Pretender tour-and he, along with the rest of the band, performed such stellar playing that the live Running On Empty album grew out of those shows. David has also played with many other folk rock oriented acts, most notably Linda Ronstadt, Crosby/Nash and the late Warren Zevon, and started his own band, El Rayo-X in 1981. Since 1979, Lindley has played off and on with Ry Cooder and for 6 years in the 1990s, he toured and played "permanent jam sessions" with Jordanian born percussionist Hani Naser.

There are great similarities between Leo Kottke, Ry Cooder and Lindley (or Mr Dave as he seems to prefer), not only in terms of their excellent string driven musicianship and also in terms of the often humorous stories they tell as they tune between songs. Lindley takes things a step further and brings his rather twisted sense of humor into the songs themselves. An example would be his updating of K. C. Douglas and Robert Geddins' 1948 Mercury Blues, which originally referred to only Mercury automobiles, to now include the mercury found in tunafish and the pallid grey color your skin would get if you ingested any of the element. His Meatgrinder Blues, a song co-written with his daughter Rosanne, describes a person who basically grinds themselves through a meat grinder-a scene one might see on some late night horror movie, or in a Robert Crumb underground comic book.



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