I’ve been a big fan for over 40 years. I saw El Rayo X open for the Grateful Dead in ‘87 and saw him solo many times over the years since most recently maybe five years ago. He was a crazy character and a master of any stringed instrument from all over the world. Such a great entertainer.
https://claremont-courier.com/latest-news/iconic-claremont-musician-david-lindley-dead-at-78-72983/
He’d been terribly sick with Long Covid complications, I’m glad his misery is ended, but damn. An incredibly gifted musician and a profoundly good person.
Gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road!
Back when I thought more about such things, I was of the opinion that is someone didn’t at least KNOW DL - and preferably appreciate his playing - then they simply didn’t KNOW music!
Been a fan for many. many years. I think he was a large part of Mr. Browne’s success.
Since it was mentioned in the thread title, here’s the original:
Here’s Lindley’s version.
I knew him mostly from his work with Jackson Browne but he really did get around. Someone who should have been a household name but was probably comfortable with his level of fame.
On a personal note for some reason I always assumed he was playing guitar on “Doctor My Eyes.” It was an embarrassingly short time ago I found out it was Jesse Ed Davis.
Lindley also sang the falsetto part of Browne’s “The Load Out/Stay” (“Oh won’t you stay / Just a little bit longer”)
His pedal steel work on Running on Empty mesmerized me as a kid and made me a lifelong fan of the instrument. RIP.
Lindley was also a major contributor to a number of Warren Zevon songs.
Here he is olaying guitar on ‘Prison Grove’, a song Zevon wrote about being condemned to die. In his case, by a cancer diagnosis. Lindley solo about 2 minutes in.
Zevon always managed to attract top talent. Along with Lindley, Bruce Springsteen, T Bone Burnett, Jackson Browne and Billy Bob Thornton are singing backup, Ry Cooder is playing slide.
Aw man, that is sad news. Love his music.
Such sad news, so much great music. I didn’t know he was sick, but if he had the long covid, I guess this tune is in order
If the boogie woogie kills me
Then I don’t mind dying
Listen to him play the banjo in his mid-sixties psychedelic band, The Kaleidoscope:
A beautiful tribute from Rolling Stone.
Great, now I’m late for work after YouTubeing those tunes.