David Lindley

Dry City Scat Band from Los Angeles.

Richard Green on fiddle, David Lindley on banjo, Pete Madlum on dobro, Steve Cahill on guitar, and the mouth harp.

And this is an old jazz tune called Jealous.

Sounds a bit different, but it's a great tune. .

You know, the psychedelic folk rock group, whatever you want to call them.

Chris Darrow, David Lindley, Solomon Felthouse, quite a name on that guy.

Yeah.

And Chester Krill.

The country had been closed off to the West for decades.

In 1991, Henry flew there with the great David Lindley because a cage full of lemurs at the San Francisco Zoo once told Lindley he had a mission there.

I'm not making that up.

12 albums came out of that trip.

That was a graphite guitar that you could take un- you could take underwater without destroying it.

We did that for the manufacturer, so he'd have a video of the guitar under the ice.

Madagascar, you and David Lindley fly to the other side of the world and come home with some of the greatest roots recordings ever made.

I've read about why you went, and what I wanna know is what happened when you got there.

I mean, the two Crosby and Nash records, especially Wind on the Water, are really strong.

I mean, Wind on the Water is a really terrific record that had them with the best you know, players in LA and Danny Corchmore and David Lindley and all those guys backing them up and the songs, some of which were supposed to have been on the Lost CSN Live record.

Like Carry Me.

Carry Me.

Uh, coffee houses from San Diego to Santa Barbara.

And, uh, matter of fact, in Santa Barbara, Carson and I played a coffee house called The Coffee House, and one night it was attended by a musician by the name of David Crosby, who with David Lindley, they were together.

Crosby turns, in his, uh, first autobiography, he turns to David Lindley and he says, "If these guys can get away with it, so can we."

[laughs]

And that was with my brother.

I th- I, I always dream about what would it be like to be able to make albums or CDs or whatever you call them now, w- by handpicking the musicians.

You know, if you could afford the kinds of musicians like a David Lindley, wouldn't that be fun? So I do think about that, but I, I never, I never...

Had no regrets about the, the road I took.

You know? And I've been able to play music the whole time, so it's-

It's produced by Graham Nash and engineered by Al Schmidt, a legendary and incredibly well-respected recording engineer regarded for his pristine, perfectly captured sounds on tape.

The musicians on the recordings included top session players like David Lindley on guitar and violin, jazz and soul veterans like Blue Mitchell and Fred Wesley on horns, Soko Richardson on drums, and Terry's longtime bass player, Lee Miles.

The song Seed of Memory is the second song on side one of the album.

It was written by Terry Reid.

That lowest string can't quite hold the pitch because it's so slack.

That bit of unstableness, along with the extended frequency range, that gives the riff an extra heaviness, an element of foreboding.

Once the band joins in, you've got David Lindley on guitar, Lee Miles on bass, Soko Richardson on drums, and Tim Weisberg playing a real atmospheric part on the flute.

And this is such a great riff, especially the syncopated part at the end of the riff, which almost plays with your sense of time.