David Olney

A celebrated singer/songwriter with over 20 albums to his credit, David Olney continues to be referred to as “Nashville’s response to the Bard.” Furthermore to his personal albums, Olney is usually a highly well known songwriter that has co-written with or been included in Johnny Money, Del McCoury, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, and Townes Vehicle Zandt, amongst others. Though a folksinger in mind, he includes wide-ranging inspirations from honky tonk to rock and roll into his regular repertoire. Given birth to in Rhode Isle, Olney relocated to Nashville through the early ’70s and became a significant player within the city’s underground folk/nation scene. He obtained a contract using the folk label Philo many years later on. Though his 1st half-dozen albums had been recorded prior to the end from the 10 years, Olney’s output through the ’80s slowed substantially. He came back to Philo in 1995 with Large, Wide and Lonesome, documented with an extraordinary cast of origins rock and roll all-stars — Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rodney Crowell, and Brian Ahern, amongst others. Actual Lies adopted in 1997, including efforts from John Prine and Garth Hudson, while 1999 brought Via a Cup Darkly. Olney continued to be prolific through the entire coming 10 years, delivering studio room albums like Omar’s Blues (2000), The Steering wheel (2003), and Migration (2005), while his raising popularity like a touring designer in European countries yielded three different live albums, all documented at various places in Holland. He started the next 10 years with 2010’s Dutchman’s Curve, accompanied by some thematic EPs — Film Noir (2011), The Rock (2012), and Robbery & Murder (2012) — which were later on compiled right into a package set. Also for this period, he started a keeping a every week interactive streamcast video series known as Hear & Right now, which he performs a small number of songs and stocks the stories in it. Between his every week videos and occupied touring routine, Olney found enough time release a a studio record, When the Offer FALLS, in 2014. Another studio room release, Don’t Make an effort to Combat It, found its way to early 2017.