Career:
As a teenager, Lindley took to playing the banjo and the fiddle. By his late teens he was acknowledged as an award winning player having won the Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest five times. From 1966 to 1970, Lindley was part of the eclectic psychedelic band Kaleidoscope. Between his work in the studio as a session musician or on tour as a sideman or bandleader, Lindley has worked on learning new instruments. He was the leader of his own band El Rayo-X from 1981 to 1983, which produced three studio and two live albums.
Work with other artists:
Lindley is especially remembered for his work as a session musician. He contributed to recordings and live performances by Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Linda Ronstadt, Curtis Mayfield, James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Terry Reid, Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart and Joe Walsh. He also collaborated with fellow guitarists Ry Cooder and Henry Kaiser. Artist Ben Harper credited Lindley's distinctive slide guitar style as a major influence on his own playing and in 2006 Lindley sat in on Harper's album Both Sides of the Gun. He is remembered in the guitar community for his use of "cheap" instruments sold at Sears department stores and intended for amateurs. He uses these for the unique sound they produce, especially with a slide. In the early 1990s, he toured and recorded with Hani Naser adding percussive instruments to his solo performances, and his instrumental repertoire which he uses in his session work. In recent years, Lindley has also toured extensively and recorded with reggae percussionist Wally Ingram. It is his touring around the world that has exposed him to part of his array of instruments that appear exotic to many Western audiences.
Lindley's voice is heard in the version of Stay performed by Jackson Browne. Browne's version is a continuation of The Load Out, and its refrain is sung in progressively higher vocal ranges. The refrain of "Oh won't you stay, just a little bit longer" is sung first by Browne, then by Rosemary Butler, then by Lindley in falsetto. His slide solo in Jackson Browne's Running On Empty is one of his best-known collaborative works as well.
Lindley joined Jackson Browne for a tour of Spain in 2006. Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino, a 2-CD set of recordings from that tour, was released May 11, 2010, with Browne and Lindley touring together starting in June of that year. The duo also won an Independent Music Award for Best Live Performance Album.
Instruments:
Lindley collected an extremely large collection of rare, unusual looking and sounding instruments. There is a large and detailed display of quite a few rare guitars, as well as instruments that originate from the Middle East and other parts of the world. Lindley has listed and categorized many of them on his [url=http://[officialsite]www.davidlindley.com]website but admits that he has "absolutely no idea" how many instruments he owns and plays, having gathered them since the 1960s.
Solo discography (excerpts):
1967 : Side Trips (Epic Records – with Kaleidoscope
1967 : A Beacon from Mars (Epic Records – With Kaleidoscope)
1969 : Incredible Kaleidoscope (Epic Records)
1970 : Bernice (Epic Records) with Kaleidoscope
1981 : El Rayo-X (Asylum)
1982 : Win This Record! (Asylum)
1983 : El Rayo Live
1985 : Mr. Dave
1988 : Very Greasy (Elektra) #174 US
1991 : OST The Indian Runner with Jack Nitzsche
1991 : A World Out of Time (Shanachie) with Henry Kaiser in Madagascar, three volumes
1994 : The Sweet Sunny North (Shanachie Records) with Henry Kaiser in Norway, two volumes
1994 : Wheels of the Sun by Kazu Matsui (Hermans records) with Hani Naser
1994 : Official Bootleg #1: Live in Tokyo Playing Real Good with Hani Naser
1995 : Cooder-Lindley Family Live at the Vienna Opera House with Ry Cooder
1995 : Song of Sacajawea (Rabbit Ears)
1995 : Official Bootleg #2: Live All Over the Place Playing Even Better with Hani Naser
2000 : El Rayo-X Live!! (Ulftone Music) with El Rayo-X in the mid '80s
2000 : Twango Bango Deluxe (with Wally Ingram)
2001 : Twango Bango II (with Wally Ingram)
2003 : Twango Bango III (with Wally Ingram)
2004 : Live in Europe (with Wally Ingram)
2008 : Big Twang (solo)
Waimanalo Blues
David Lindley Lyrics
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Wind's gonna blow so I'm gonna go
Down on the road again
Starting where the mountains Ieft me
I'm up where I began
Where I will go the wind only knows
Get in my car, goin' too far
Never comin' back again
Tired and worn I woke up this mornin'
Found that I was confused
Spun right around and found I had lost
The things that I couldn't lose
CHORUS:
The beaches they sell to build their hotels
My fathers and I once knew
Birds all along sunlight at dawn
Singing Waimanalo blues
Down on the road with mountains so old
Far on the country side
Birds on the wing forget in a while
So I'm headed for the windward side
AU of your dreams
Sometimes it just seems
That I'm just along for the ride
Some they will cry because they have pride
For someone who's loved here died
The beaches they sell to build their hotels
My fathers and I once knew
Birds all along sunlight at dawn
Singing Waimanalo blues
The lyrics of "Waimanalo Blues" by David Lindley are a reflective account of a protagonist's journey through life. The song begins with the singer acknowledging that it's time for him to move on - like the wind, he is going to keep going down the road. He is starting where the mountains left him, which is essentially the same place where he started his journey. The singer seems to have no particular destination in mind, but the possibility of good times lies just around the bend. The chorus of the song is particularly poignant, as the singer reflects on what he has lost over time. The beaches he and his father once knew are now sold to build hotels, and the birds sing Waimanalo blues at dawn.
As the song goes on, it is clear that the singer has experienced weariness and confusion. He reflects on moments in his life where he was "just along for the ride" and times when people have cried because someone they loved has died. The song ends on a melancholic note with the chorus repeating, emphasizing the loss of the past and the inevitable changes that life brings.
Overall, "Waimanalo Blues" is a meditation on change, loss, and the passage of time. The lyrics beautifully capture the bittersweet nature of life, where nostalgia and regret are mixed with hope and possibility.
Line by Line Meaning
Wind's gonna blow so I'm gonna go
I'm going to leave because I don't want to experience the repercussions of the impending storm.
Down on the road again
I'm traveling once again.
Starting where the mountains Ieft me
I'm starting from where I was left behind by the mountains.
I'm up where I began
I'm back where I started.
Where I will go the wind only knows
I have no idea where I'm going next.
Good times around the bend
I hope that good times are coming soon.
Get in my car, goin' too far
I'm going to get in my car and drive really far away.
Never comin' back again
I'm leaving and never coming back.
Tired and worn I woke up this mornin'
I woke up this morning feeling exhausted and defeated.
Found that I was confused
I realized that I was confused and disoriented.
Spun right around and found I had lost
I turned around and realized that I had lost something important to me.
The things that I couldn't lose
I lost something that I considered irreplaceable.
CHORUS:
This is the chorus of the song.
The beaches they sell to build their hotels
The natural beauty of the beaches is being destroyed in order to construct commercial establishments such as hotels.
My fathers and I once knew
My ancestors and I remember a different time when the beaches were pristine and untouched by commercialism.
Birds all along sunlight at dawn
I see the birds flying overhead in the morning sun.
Singing Waimanalo blues
The birds are singing the blues that I associate with the place Waimanalo.
Down on the road with mountains so old
I'm on the road surrounded by old mountains.
Far on the country side
I'm far from the city, out in the countryside.
Birds on the wing forget in a while
The birds flying overhead forget their worries and cares for a little while.
So I'm headed for the windward side
I'm going to the windward side of the island.
AU of your dreams
Not sure.
Sometimes it just seems
Sometimes it feels like life is just happening to me and I have little control.
That I'm just along for the ride
I feel like I'm not in control of my life or where it's taking me.
Some they will cry because they have pride
Some people will cry when they think about what they've lost because they have too much pride to let anyone see them cry.
For someone who's loved here died
Someone they loved passed away in this place.
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