David Perry Lindley (born March 21, 1944) is an American musician who founded the band El Rayo-X, and has worked with many other performers including

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Ry Cooder Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, an ...

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and

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. He has mastered such a wide variety of instruments that ''

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'' magazine referred to Lindley not as a multi-instrumentalist, but instead as a "maxi-instrumentalist." The majority of the instruments that Lindley plays are

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s, including the acoustic and

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and

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, gumbus,

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, and

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. Lindley was a founding member of the 1960s band

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, and has worked as musical director for several touring artists. In addition, he has occasionally scored and composed music for film.

Early life and career

When Lindley was growing up in Los Angeles, his father had an extensive collection of 78 rpm records that included Korean folk and Indian sitar music. Lindley took up the violin at age 3, but broke the bridge. He then moved on to the baritone ukelele in his early teens. Then Lindley took to playing the banjo and the fiddle. By his late teens, he was acknowledged as an award-winning player, having won the

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five times. He began to frequent the folk music scene of the 60s, patronizing clubs like the Ash Grove and the

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, and encountering an eclectic assortment of music, including flamenco, Russian folk music, and Indian sitar music. He found that radio played a very open assortment of music. From 1966 to 1970, Lindley was a founding member of the all-styles

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band

which released four albums on

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during that period. After Kaleidoscope broke up, he went to England and played in

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's band for a couple of years. In 1972, he teamed up with

, and played in his band through 1980. During the 1970s, he also toured as a member of the bands of

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- Nash,

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and

James Taylor James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, havi ...

. In 1981, Lindley formed his own band, El Rayo-X. Jackson Browne produced their first album. Their last show before breaking up was December 31, 1989. Since that time, he has toured as a solo artist, and as half of a duo, first with

Hani Naser Hani Naser ( ar, هاني ناصر; March 2, 1950 – November 16, 2020) was a Jordanian-American musician. He specialized in the oud and hand percussion instruments, particularly the goblet drum and djembe. Naser was considered by critics to ...

, then with

Wally Ingram Wally Ingram is an American drummer and musician. He is most famous as a member of the band, Timbuk 3. In recent years, he has toured with the multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, and released several records with him: * 2000 : ''Twango Bango D ...

. He also played on a multitude of studio sessions. Between his work in the studio as a

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or on tour as a

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or bandleader, Lindley has worked on learning new instruments. He is famous for having written the only song glorifying (a brand of) male condoms, "Ram-a-Lamb-a-Man," from his album ''Win this Record!''

Work with other artists

Lindley is known for his work as a session musician. He has contributed to recordings and live performances by

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Graham Nash Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, photographer, and activist. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and the supergroups Crosby, Stills ...

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, Toto,

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and

Joe Walsh Joseph Fidler Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In a career spanning over five decades, he has been a member of three successful rock bands: the James Gang, Eagles, and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr B ...

. He has also collaborated with fellow guitarists

, Henry Kaiser and

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. Artist

Ben Harper Benjamin Chase Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk, soul, reggae, and rock music and is known for his guitar-playing skills, vocals, live perfo ...

has credited Lindley's distinctive

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style as a major influence on his own playing, and, in 2006, Lindley sat in on Harper's album ''

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''. He is known 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

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

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percussionist

. 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 "

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" performed by

. 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

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, then by Lindley in falsetto. Lindley was a special guest artist on a 1994 jazz CD entitled Wheels of the Sun by the Japanese shakuhachi player Kazu Matsui. He played on each track of the CD. 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 has a large collection of rare and unusual guitars and other instruments from the

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and various parts of the world. Lindley has listed and categorized many of them on his website but admits that he has "absolutely no idea" how many instruments he owns and plays, having gathered them since the 1960s.

Selected discography

;Solo *1967 : '' Side Trips'' ( Epic) with

*1967 : '' A Beacon from Mars'' (Epic) with Kaleidoscope *1969 : '' Incredible! Kaleidoscope'' (Epic) with Kaleidoscope *1970 : ''Bernice'' (Epic) with Kaleidoscope *1981 : '' El Rayo-X'' (

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) *1982 : ''Win This Record!'' (Asylum) *1983 : ''El Rayo Live'' *1985 : ''Mr. Dave'' *1988 : '' Very Greasy'' ( Elektra) #174 US *1991 : ''

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'' original soundtrack with

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*1991 : ''A World Out of Time'' ( Shanachie) with Henry Kaiser in Madagascar *1994 : ''The Sweet Sunny North'' (

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) with Henry Kaiser in

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*1994 : ''Wheels of the Sun'' by Kazu Matsui ( Hermans records) with

*1994 : ''Official Bootleg #1: Live in Tokyo Playing Real Good'' with

*1995 : ''Song of Sacajawea'' (Rabbit Ears) *1995 : ''Official Bootleg #2: Live All Over the Place Playing Even Better'' with

*2000 : ''Twango Bango Deluxe'' (with

) *2001 : ''Twango Bango II'' (with Wally Ingram) *2003 : ''Twango Bango III'' (with Wally Ingram) *2004 : ''Live in Europe'' (with Wally Ingram) *2008 : ''David Lindley—Big Twang''

With other musicians

;with

*1973 : ''

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'' (

) *1974 : ''

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'' (Asylum) *1976 : '' The Pretender'' (Asylum) *1977 : '' Running on Empty'' (Asylum) *1980 : ''

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'' (Asylum) *2010 : '' Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino'' (

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) ;with

*1978 : ''

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'' (

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) *1979 : '' Bop Till You Drop'' (Warner Bros.) *1995 : ''Cooder-Lindley Family Live at the Vienna Opera House'' ;with

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*1975 : ''

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'' (

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) *1976 : ''

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'' (ABC) ;with

*1971 : ''

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'' (Atlantic) *1974 : '' Wild Tales'' (Atlantic) *1980 : ''

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'' (

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) ;with

*1972 : ''River'' (Atlantic) *1976 : ''

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'' (ABC) ;with

*1974 : ''

Heart Like a Wheel ''Heart Like a Wheel'' is the fifth solo studio album by Linda Ronstadt, released in November 1974. It was Ronstadt's last album to be released by Capitol Records. At the time of its recording, Ronstadt had already moved to Asylum Records and rel ...

'' (Capitol) *1975 : ''

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'' (Asylum) *1977 : ''

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'' (Asylum) ;with

*1975 : ''

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'' (Warner Bros.) *1976 : '' A Night on the Town'' (Warner Bros.) ;with

*1976 : ''

'' *1987 : '' Sentimental Hygiene'' (

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) *1989 : '' Transverse City'' (Virgin) *1994 : '' Mutineer'' (

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) *2003 : '' The Wind'' (

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) ;with others *1967 : ''

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'' (Columbia) with

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*1969 : ''

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'' (

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) with

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*1971 : ''

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'' (Warner Bros.)

*1977 : ''

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'' (RCA) with

*1979 : ''

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'' (Columbia) with

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*1981 : '' There Goes the Neighborhood'' (Asylum) with

*1987 : Freight Train Heart with

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*1987 : '' Trio'' (Warner Bros.) with

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and Dolly Parton *1988 : ''

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'' (

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) with

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*1989 : ''

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'' (Warner Bros.) with

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*1990 : ''

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'' (Columbia) with

*1992 : '' Fat City'' (Columbia) with

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*2003 : ''Oil'' (Cosmo Sex School Records) with

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and Dzuiks Küche *2006 : ''

'' (Virgin) with

*2008 : ''Insides Out'' (

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) with Jordan Zevon *2010 : '' The Promise'' (Columbia) with

& the

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*2012 : ''The Devil You Know'' (

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) with

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*2015 : ''Slide Guitar Summit'' with

Arlen Roth Arlen Roth (born October 30, 1952) is an American guitarist, teacher, and author. From 1982 to 1992, he was a columnist for ''Guitar Player'' magazine. Those ten years of columns became a book, ''Hot Guitar''. His father Al Ross (Abraham Roth) ...

(Aquinnah Records) *2017 : ''The Bucket List'' (Rocker Chick Media) with The Sound Field

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The Official David Lindley Web Page

David Lindley Interview
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