THE BEATLES and BOB DYLAN [duh!]. THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, PENTANGLE, FAIRPORT CONVENTION, and STEELEYE SPAN.
ROBIN WILLIAMSON, LEONARD COHEN (check out my tribute to Leonard "Good Ol' Fin de Siecle' here), SKIP JAMES, RAY DAVIES, JONI MITCHEL and SUZANNE WERNER. PETER TOWNSHEND? Yeah, for "Mary," "Tattoo" and "Pure and Easy."
Non-traditional traditionalists like BERT JANSCH. RICHARD THOMPSON and MARTIN CARTHY.
Classical Indian musicians, RAVI SHANKAR, RAM NARAYAN, ALLI AKBAR KHAN, RAM GOPALS. Field recordings by ALAN LOMAX and by DAVID LEWISTON. “The Badmen” by PETE SEEGER, ED McCURDY, RAMBLIN' JACK ELIOT and the gang. Classical guitarists, CHRISTOPHER PARKENING, SEGOVIA, JORGE MOREL and ERNESTO BITETTI. The music of SHOSTAKOVICH.
“Rock from the Beginning” by NIK COHN. And thus: THE ROLLING STONES, THE WHO, THE KINKS, THE FOUR SEASONS, THE SEX PISTOLS
Literati, LAWRENCE DURRELL, HENRY MILLER, T. S ELIOT, BOB BURLESON (who called me "a worker of the mind and spirit"}, and EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS.
Folk musician and songwriter David Nigel Lloyd is, according to the LA Weekly, “some serious traditional fun.” His most recent album, RIVERS, KINGS AND CURSES, was named one of the best 15 CDs of 2008 by Celtic Connections, a weekly radio show broadcast on about 100 US stations. His 1984 singer/songwriter LP, DARK AGES, was remastered and reissued last fall as a forgotten classic by the new US specialty label, Yoga Records.
He sings of pumpkin kings, fairy queens, East African juju men, idiot presidents, divine drunkards, eternal wanderers, prisoners both great and small, and ancient Irish warriors in dusty oil towns. “A strongly individual musical and poetic mind is at work here” (beGlad, UK).
In performance, DNL frames his songs with wry commentary and the occasional surreal folk tale. He has performed from California to the UK.
“As much American influenced as British” (the LA Times), DNL accompanies himself on the 8-stringed octar and on steel and gut strung guitars tuned differently. With his “spirited singing and full-bodied playing” (Dirty Linen), “Lloyd uses traditional tunes and themes where it suits his purposes” (Folk Roots, UK).
Music from his five critically acclaimed albums has aired on many college and NPR stations and once on Late Night with David Letterman. On RIVERS, KINGS AND CURSES DNL is accompanied by Celtic music legend and Incredible String Band founder, Robin Williamson; and by West Coast Blues Society Hall of Famer, Nat Dove.
In the late 1980s, David Nigel Lloyd and His Mojave Desert Ceilidh Band became LA’s only Celtic folk rock band. In 1993, he played Feste in Spike Stewart's magnificently obscure feature film "Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space" [Twelfth Night], rewriting the music to Feste's songs.
DNL leads a workshop on the traditional muse, entitled "How to Write a Traditional Song." He has also delivered performance lectures entitled "The Truth of True Thomas" about the famous medieval Scottish ballad.
Over the last 15 years DNL has taught ballad singing in California’s Tulare and Kern County public schools. He currently directs the Arts in Education programs for the Arts Council of Kern.
Born in the British East Africa of the Mau Mau uprising, David lived in England and Germany before immigrating to America in 1962. His early music career in the LA New Wave and Post Punk scenes, found him in bands with the likes of Jethro Tull’s Glenn Cornick and Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Billy Bass of Parliament Funkadelic.
During the 1990s, David and his wife raised a daughter in a tiny village in the Southern Sierra Nevada.
Great stuff all around, DNL! Big lols at Good Old Fin de Siècle, from here in Lenny's hometown. (Speaking of Montreal, I see you have a few days off 'twixt your October dates in TO & NY...?) Viz. Jesus on the Road, do lend an ear my Joe's Report from the Afterlife for another unorthodox take. Pete Townshend's Tattoo is one of my fave songs, too!
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