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David Olney
Americana / Folk / Blues

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NASHVILLE, Tennessee
United States

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Member Since6/8/2006
Band Websitehttp://www.davidolney.com
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InfluencesTownes Van Zandt, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Peter, Paul & Mary, Tin Pan Alley, a little mustang, Vaudeville, Jesse James, John Barrymore, sweet poison, Omar Khayyam, John Dillinger, Barabbas, a World War I prostitute, the iceberg that sank the Titanic, a caterpillar, a boxer, a millionaire, Dizzy Dean and other baseball players, Vincent van Gogh, a huckster following Jesus and any number of criminals, low-life scoundrels and social outcasts.

Sounds LikeThe Great American Songbook.

Record LabelDeadbeet Records
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Nov 24 2009 7:00P
David Olney HEAR & NOW: Streaming BROADCAST on uStream 7:00pm Eastern (6:00pm Central) Global!
Nov 26 2009 7:30P
Part 2 - JAMMIN’ AT HIPPIE JACK’S (Broadcast TV) on WCTE-TV Middle, Tennessee
Nov 28 2009 7:00P
Flatrock Café NEW VENUE in South Nashville! Nashville, Tennessee
Nov 28 2009 9:00P
Part 2 (Repeat) - JAMMIN’ AT HIPPIE JACK’S (Broadcast TV) on WCTE-TV Middle, Tennessee
Dec 10 2009 7:00P
Live Television with Hippie Jack from JAMMIN’ AT HIPPIE JACK’S Middle, Tennessee
Dec 12 2009 9:00P
Get Behind The Mule TOM WAITS! Benefit for SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK! @ The Basement Nashville, Tennessee
Dec 26 2009 9:00P
Norm’s River Road House - LAST SHOW of the YEAR! West Nashville, Tennessee
Jan 8 2010 7:00P
Normandy Music Nights Normandy, Tennessee
Jan 16 2010 7:30P
Smithfield Little Theatre Smithfield, Virginia
Feb 17 2010 8:00P
Folk Alliance International Performance Alley Showcase @ Marriott Hotel and Cook Convention Center Memphis
Feb 18 2010 8:00P
Folk Alliance International - Performance Alley Showcase @ Marriott Hotel and Cook Convention Center Nashville, Tennessee
Feb 19 2010 8:00P
Folk Alliance International - Performance Alley Showcase @ Marriott Hotel and Cook Convention Center Nashville, Tennessee
Feb 20 2010 8:00P
Folk Alliance International - Performance Alley Showcase @ Marriott Hotel and Cook Convention Center Nashville, Tennessee
Feb 28 2010 7:00P
Winter Wind Concert Series The Performing Arts Studio @ The historic Santa Fe Depot Norman, Oklahoma

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   About David Olney

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Over an impressive professional career spanning four decades, David Olney has built a reputation not as a kind-hearted troubadour, but rather as a performing songwriter with a sharp literary mind that often cuts to the bone of the human condition. Whether the subject matter is heartbreak or armed robbery, Olney's cinematic style and fearless approach to lyric writing have won him a reputation as a kind of musical outlaw. Listening to his new CD, One Tough Town, is like watching a Sergio Leone western: it's gritty, smart and dangerous and you can't take your eyes off the screen.



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NEW in 2008! David Olney & Sergio Webb with Jack Irwin
"LIVE! at Norm's River Road House, Vol. 1" recording. Limited-edition, numbered, hand-printed at the world famous Hatch Show Print....
David's FIRST self-release on his own Deadbeet Records!
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Norm's River Road House, the small listening room in West Nashville, TN, has become known for its electrifying music as well as killer live shows from regular performers David Olney & Sergio Webb. The boys are joined by percussionist/producer Jack Irwin on this FIRST-EVER self-produced LIVE album recorded earlier this year.

“Live At Norm's River Road House, Vol. 1” features the trio playing 76 minutes of soul-stunning music as never heard before, along with original hand-carved artwork designed & printed at Nashville, TN's historic Hatch Show Print by Ms. Julie Sola. This is an original LIMITED, NUMBERED PRESSING. Includes TWO NEW previously unreleased songs and one of David’s stellar classic poetry recitations as seen on YouTube.

Concert Track Listing:
1) Intro/Whistle Blow
2) Upside Down
3) Wait Here For The Cops
4) Sweet Poison
5) Panama City
6) Postcard From Mexico
7) Intro of Band
8) Titanic
9) Oh Yeah
10) One Tough Town
11) Ukulele Waltz
12) Who's The Dummy Now?
13) Sunset On Sunset Boulevard
14) Snake Song
15) Kubla Khan
16) Lee's Highway
17) The Highway's Coming


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Awarded the "People's Choice" at the Moab Folk Festival in November and having played the Hardly, Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park & the Kerrville (TX) Wine & Music Festival this past Fall, David & Sergio are touring as a duo in support of Mr. Olney's critically acclaimed current studio album - "ONE TOUGH TOWN" (Red Parlor Records). The new CD has earned a spot on several 2007 "Best Of" lists online and in The Rochester (NY) Democrat & Chronicle, The Nashville Scene (TN), The Montreal Gazette (Canada), Rhythms Magazine (Australia) and others.

The prolific David Olney infuses his live performances with with an intensity that converts many new listeners into die-hard fans. Olney's intelligent compositions radiate that same intensity, many of which have been recorded by Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Del McCoury, Tim O'Brien, Lonnie Brooks, James King, Slaid Cleaves, Dale Ann Bradley, Tom Rozum, Ann Rabson, Kevin Welch/ Keiran Kane/ Fats Kaplin and others.


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Full Bio/Media Kit/Downloadable photos online: http://www.davidolney.com (Press page)
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OLNEY IMPRESSIONS:

"As the title track notes, it's not just one tough town, but a tough planet. I saw Olney playing at a festival this spring and thought he looked like a FEDORA-SPORTING, fiftysomething HIGH-SCHOOL PRINCIPAL who'd SUDDENLY GONE BERSERK and was using his acoustic guitar like it was a weapon. Love this crazy guy, LOVE THIS RECORD."
-- Rochester (NY) Democrat & Chronicle

"Olney stands out LIKE A JALAPENO IN A BOWL OF VANILLA PUDDING in Nashville. One Tough Town, A BRILLIANT SAMPLING OF AMERICAN MUSIC from blues and rockabilly to New Orleans swing and NOIR FOLK, adds another top-notch effort to a prolific string of fine records. "Sweet Poison" is a shot of rockabilly so stout it should make most of the current crop of pompadoured fakers sell their instruments and go back to 40-hour weeks at Burger King. ... a TRUE GENIUS of American song."
-- Houston (TX) Press

"One Tough Town shows Olney at his lightest. As usual, though, darkness runs through much of the Nashvillian's work, from the BLUESY RAWNESS of 'Sweet Poison' to the biblical gravity of the GOSPEL-FLAVORED 'See How the Mighty Have Fallen.' And his version of Townes Van Zandt's 'Snake Song' positively DRIPS WITH MENACE. He has written some audacious, in-character songs over his distinguished four-decade career, but David Olney has perhaps outdone himself with 'Who's the Dummy Now?'"
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Few are capable of spinning such colorful and multi-layered yarns with so little excess fat. On this fine new release, Olney spans the gamut from OBSTREPEROUS GLEE to NAKED TERROR. He hits the mark consistently throughout the album."
-- American Songwriter Magazine (July/Aug 2007)

"Previously, with his gruff voice and GUTBUCKET ARRANGEMENTS, Olney has recalled the later Tom Waits; on One Tough Town, that comparison remains valid, although one also should mention Leon Redbone as a model. In his songwriting, OLNEY CONTINUES TO DELIGHT in imaginative explorations of historical and invented characters and situations."
-- AllMusic.com

"He's a little bit country, a little bit folk and quite a bit raw passion. He can grab an audience's attention like a bolt of lightning or exude tenderness in heart-tugging love songs."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"David Olney resembles an old-time road bard who will, and can, do virtually anything to rivet strangers under his one-night tent....Olney's traveling show can mesmerize."
-- Geoff Gehman, The Morning Call

"David Olney is astounding... gave one of the most magnificent solo acoustic shows I have seen and that includes concerts by Bruce Springsteen, Guy Clark or anyone else you'd care to name. He can break your heart but he can also chill your spine."
-- Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

"David Olney is nothing less than a twisted American treasure - a booming narrator of dark topics usually spoken about only in hushed tones. He also wields a mighty wicked guitar."
-- Mountain XPress, Asheville, NC

"Anytime anyone asks me who my favorite music writers are, I say Mozart, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bob Dylan and Dave Olney. Dave Olney is one of the best songwriters I've ever heard - and that's true. I mean that from my heart."
-- Townes Van Zandt

DYNAMITE DAVE: A MUSIC CITY MASTER: "During his three decades in Nashville, Dave Olney has gone from being one of Music City's most exhilarating rock 'n' rollers to being one of our town's best respected songsmiths. Even when stripped down to a guitar and vocal, though, Olney's songs and performances retain unusual intensity and impact. All this goes to say that...well, he's awfully good. For songwriters and performers, an Olney concert offers an opportunity to learn by observing a great one in action. For everyone else, it's just an opportunity to be entertained by a uniquely masterful artist."
-- Peter Cooper, The Tennessean

"David Olney tells marvelous stories, with characters who cling to the hope of enduring love, all the while crossing the deep divide into that long dark night of the soul. They are saints and charlatans, gypsies and thieves, the ordinary and extraordinary."
--Emmylou Harris

"Writing from the point of view of historical characters has become one of Mr. Olney's most distinguishing talents, whether he's singing from the mind of a donkey that carried Jesus or imagining Jesse James's last bragging words before being shot by Robert Ford..." "But he stresses: 'Anyone who sits down to write a heavy song is a jerk. It's more like paleontology, when you find a bone of a song sticking up and do everything you can to get the rest of it out without breaking it.'"
-- Neil Strauss, The New York Times

“Olney's deep, hard-nosed voice remains as clear and unforgiving as a punch to the face, and, as always, it's his songs of love, with their focus on tenderness and redemption, that do the most lasting damage.”
-- Michael McCall, Nashville Scene




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Kathy & Bill

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Nov 23 2009 12:58 AM

All I know is that I miss Roxy Gordon and Townes up in Dallas, Back in the day.............
Kevin Ball

Kevin Ball



Nov 19 2009 1:16 PM

first call for alcohol and blues tonight at mattys alley featuring busters 6-9 and if ya sing or play da blues....be there...one scotch, one bourbon, and one beer......
Jeremiah Jams

Jeremiah Jams



Nov 17 2009 5:09 PM

Thank you for being a friend!!!:) Keep on grooving!!:)
Peace,
Jeremiah Jams
Jeffrey Allen Edwards

Jeffrey Allen Edwards



Nov 9 2009 4:05 AM

Thanks for having me as a myspace friend...I really need your help.I'm Nominated for the QC awards and I need your Vote..Please go to www.queencityawards.com enter site click on nomination,scroll down to Country Artist (Male) and please throw me your vote..
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Nov 7 2009 3:06 PM

Paul K benefit @ Cosmic Charlie's in Lexington, KY November 30th. Twelve bands, doors @6pm starts promptly @ 7pm. Come on down!!
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Oct 29 2009 4:14 PM

Thanks for the add! Cheers, Matt
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Oct 29 2009 3:26 PM

Ruby Jane Article in New York Times!!
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Noah

Noah Simmons



Oct 19 2009 12:40 AM

Hey, it's me again. Come to Michigan ( Ann Arbor/Detroit area ) and bring Sergio and Malcolm Holcombe or Richard Dobson with you, please, BIG FAN, Noah.
Steve Kelly

Steve Kelly



Oct 16 2009 5:27 PM

Many thanks for the add, the love and the musical connection David.

May I wish you every success.

Love

St.Eve
Sergio Webb

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Oct 14 2009 1:38 AM

PRE-ORDER BOLIVAR BLUES and get FREE Bonus CD!
Preview tracks and find more info on myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/marksergiowebb

Cheers!
Hugh Patrick

Hugh Patrick



Oct 7 2009 8:29 PM

David,

You have some amazing admirers. What a songwriter you are!!

Thanks for signing up,

Go raibh míle maith agat

Hugh
D.B. Rielly

D.B. Rielly



Oct 6 2009 9:40 PM

HAVE A NICE DAY.
Sergio Webb

Sergio Webb



Oct 5 2009 11:41 PM

Hello Friends! Excitement in abundance! BOLIVAR BLUES is Sergio's first release in 5 years; and we’ll be taking Pre-Orders tomorrow, October 6, thru October 20! Big thanks to good friend Ted Jones aka RAGS. He's giving us POET, SOLDIER, WISE MAN, KING to offer as a Bonus CD (Bonus = Free). It will be included in the special Pre-Order Offers.

*Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday Oct 6, for more details on "BOLIVAR BLUES" special Pre-Order!

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Don't squat with your spurs on!
Tim Robinson

Tim Robinson



Oct 2 2009 1:14 AM

Just the best. Such fine songs, thanks for them.

TR
INTERNATIONAL REMOVALS

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Sep 30 2009 6:47 PM

Hey David,
thanks a lot for the add!
Love your songs, especially the millionaire!
All the Best, Peace, Love & Rock'n'Roll,
your INTERNATIONAL REMOVALS!!!
Coffee Grind

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Sep 30 2009 1:21 AM

$2 lattes day everyday @ the coffee grind. come see us in the fairview.
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Sep 27 2009 2:48 AM

Thanks for the ad!
Noah

Noah Simmons



Sep 27 2009 1:37 AM

COME TO MICHIGAN ( Ann Arbor/Detroit area ).
Ninure da Hippie

Ninure Da Hippie



Sep 26 2009 12:23 PM

Do you have any idea how hard it is to come up with something orginal to say?

I mean everybody says “You rock”. or “Your music is great”

So, I’ll just say this: You know what you’re doing. Keep on doing it.


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Sep 25 2009 2:08 PM

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Sep 25 2009 1:00 AM

Thanks so much for having me as a myspace friend.
Be a part of the Pee Dees bigest Party October 10th & 11th... Eagle 92.2 Presents Mudflap & Mattie's.. 6th Anniversary Party... Mud and Music.... October 10th Starring Rhett Akins with special guests Fast Ryde, Jeffery Allen Edwards and the Pee Dee' own Sideswiped. There are a limited amount of reserved seats available, buy your Now!!! ADVANCE PURCHASE ONLY $20.00 (tax & ticketing fee included) gets you a 2 day pass for the races and a reserved seat closest to the stage for the concert If there are any left they will be $30.00 day of the show. General Admission $15.00 for one day $20.00 for 2 days Kids 12 and under free with General Admission ticket ONLY! Camping available $5.00 per person with a 2 pass only.
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R. C. OLeary

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Sep 23 2009 7:14 PM

Hello David:
Thank you for coming aboard my humble page with your Great self and song .
Totally enjoyed you and Sergio at the Grand Opening of Sun Records Shop @ COOTER'S PLACE . Your Set was terrific, look forward to catching you again in the future .
STAY IN TUNE
R.C.
Hampshirewood

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Sep 20 2009 6:47 PM

Fan tastic!!
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