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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Mon Mar 7, 2016, 09:39 PM Mar 2016

The impossibly bad-assed David Lindley performs "Mercury Blues." Enjoy.

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The impossibly bad-assed David Lindley performs "Mercury Blues." Enjoy. (Original Post) Miles Archer Mar 2016 OP

Bad ass kick Lochloosa Mar 2016 #1

One of my favorite.. PoiBoy Mar 2016 #2

I first read about David Lindley in Guitar Player magazine back in the 80's. U4ikLefty Mar 2016 #3

That's how it happened for me, too. Miles Archer Mar 2016 #4

Lochloosa

(16,063 posts)

1. Bad ass kick

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Mar 7, 2016, 09:52 PM

Mar 2016

PoiBoy

(1,542 posts)

2. One of my favorite..

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Mar 7, 2016, 10:18 PM

Mar 2016

David Lindley tunes...

Thanks for posting...

U4ikLefty

(4,012 posts)

3. I first read about David Lindley in Guitar Player magazine back in the 80's.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 02:03 AM

Mar 2016

I got a cassette of a few of his tunes from a buddy of mine a few weeks later & was blown away.

He truly deserves more recognition.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)

4. That's how it happened for me, too.

Reply to U4ikLefty (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 8, 2016, 06:06 AM

Mar 2016

A friend made me a mix tape, and this song, from the "El Ray X Live" EP, was on it. I knew of his work with Jackson Browne but at that point had no idea he had done solo work. I've heard "Mercury Blues" from a number of other players, including Steve Miller, and none of them come close to the "shot out of a cannon" urgency of Lindley. He took what was basically a good, but unremarkable, blues number and morphed it into his own "Johnny B. Goode" rave-up.

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