David Bromberg
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David Bromberg (born September 19, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist. Bromberg has an eclectic style, playing bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country and western, and rock & roll equally well. He is known for his quirky, humorous lyrics, and the ability to play rhythm and lead guitar at the same time.
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Bromberg attended Columbia University in the 1960s and studied guitar with Reverend Gary Davis during that period. He has played with many famous musicians, including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jorma Kaukonen, Jerry Garcia, and Bob Dylan, and co-wrote the song "The Holdup", with former Beatle George Harrison.
He began releasing albums of his own in the early 1970s on Columbia Records. His seven-minute rendition of "Mr. Bojangles" from 1972's Demon in Disguise, interspersed with tales about travelling with song author Jerry Jeff Walker, earned progressive rock radio airplay.
Bromberg currently lives in Wilmington, Delaware where he and his wife, artist Nancy Josephson, own an extensive violin sales and repair shop, with a partial subsidy from the City of Wilmington, Delaware.[1] He occasionally performs at Wilmington's Grand Opera House.
Bromberg is proficient on fiddle, many styles of acoustic and electric guitar (to each of which he lends a highly individual voice), pedal steel guitar and Dobro. David Lindley, Norman Blake, Mark O'Connor, Emily Robison and Ricky Skaggs are among the small number of other major musicians with equal proficiency on three or more string instruments.
Bromberg released his first new studio album since 1990 with Try Me One More Time on 27 February 2007, on Appleseed Recordings. The disc includes Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" and Elizabeth Cotten's "Shake Sugaree." Bromberg's previous disc was Sideman Serenade.
[edit] Discography
- The Devil's Anvil (1967)
- David Bromberg (1971)
- Demon in Disguise (1972)
- Wanted Dead or Alive (1974)
- Midnight on the Water (1975)
- How Late'll Ya Play 'Til? [live] (1976)
- How Late'll Ya Play 'Til?, Vol. 1 [Live] (1976)
- How Late'll Ya Play 'Til?, Vol. 2 [Studio] (1976)
- Hillbilly Jazz, Vol. 1 (1977)
- Hillbilly Jazz, Vol. 2 (1977)
- Reckless Abandon (1977)
- Out Of The Blues: Best of David Bromberg (1977) - Compilation album
- Bandit in a Bathing Suit (1978)
- My Own House (1978)
- You Should See the Rest of The Band (1980)
- Long Way from Here (1987)
- Sideman Serenade (1990)
- The Player: Retrospective (1998)
- Try Me One More Time (2007)
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[edit] References
- ^ Baker, James M. (retrieved 5 January 2008) Mayor Baker Says Renown Musician And Collector David Bromberg And His Wife, Sculptor Nancy Josephson, Will Call Wilmington ‘Home’
