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Lloyd to Play Before Strangers on May 13

Rare DNL Performance

JE & DNL @ the 2004 Folk Alliance Conference

[April 16, 2005] Accompanied by Jill Egland, David Nigel Lloyd will be the opening act at the Bakersfield appearance of Perfect Strangers on May 13. The acclaimed bluegrass "Supergroup" will perform at the Crossroads Fellowship/River Valley Churches at 5131 Office Park Drive, near the Truxtun AAA office in Bakersfield, CA.

DNL and Egland, who have performed together several times over the last 18 months, will present an approximately 20 minute set. DNL's music has been called "excellent" by the LA Times and by Britain's Folk Roots magazine. Currently at work on RIVERS AND KINGS, his 5th CD, Lloyd will be accompanied on the recording by an all-star cast of folkies which will include Egland.

Jill Egland is a multi-instrumentalist with Bakersfield's Celtic trio, Banshee in the Kitchen. This all female outfit has toured throughout the US and is poised to release its third CD, EVEN HOTTER WATER.

Perfect Strangers performed two years ago in the same location and are back by popular demand. The band has been headlining concerts and festivals across the country since they formed over two years ago.

Doors open at 7:00 PM. DNL and JE will get things going at 7:30. Perfect Strangers will take it from there.

Guest Musicians To Contribute to David Nigel Lloyd's RIVERS AND KINGS

Paul Barton battles Cuchulainn at Clear Creek

[Feb 17, 2005]
Celtic music and 60's legend Robin Williamson is among several musicians slated to record on David Nigel Lloyd's RIVERS AND KINGS. "Though Robin and I are old friends, I am still greatly honored that he wishes to be part of this project," said Lloyd. Williamson plans to record his harp and fiddle parts in a studio in Cardiff, Wales, where he lives. They will then be digitally 'flown in' to the project master files at Clear Creek Recording in Hart Flat, California.

Nat Dove, the Texas Boogie King, will lay down some blues piano on the mostly Celtic album's jazz ballad, "Set The River Thames on Fire." Dove performed internationally for many years with blues greats like Big Mamma Thornton and Freddy King. He is now the director of the Bakersfield Blues Preservation Society. "Nat's a great American Artist," says DNL. "My music couldn't be in better hands."

Intending this his fifth release to be an all-acoustic project, standup bass player Jeff Pekarek has already laid down the bottom end on six songs. "He's not only a brilliant player, he really understood the intention of my music," said Lloyd. "He'll be back to work on some other tunes." With a long resume which includes work with Danny Kay, Benny Goodman and Arthur Rubenstein, Jeff currently plays bass with Richard Greene and the Brothers Barton.

And speaking of the brothers, Paul Barton, having laid down a brilliant bluegrass mandolin part on Lloyd's "Cuchuliann in Bakersfield," will return with a banjo for "Roll Back Columbia." The Brothers Barton, it should be noted, have just released their debut CD entitled ORIGINALS. DNL designed the graphics for its cover. ("Is there no end to his bloody talent" —Glaswegian saying)

Jill Egland, whistle player, flautist and accordionist for Banshee in the Kitchen has performed several times with DNL and will be adding her parts to his recording soon as will, hopefully, bandmates Mary Tulin and Brenda Hunter.

Piper Jay Salter, Irish flautist Dave Ogden, and rock-a-billy singer Jenny Angel of the Dusk Devils are among the others slated to work on RIVERS AND KINGS. Lloyd hopes to have the album completed by April.

Birth of RIVERS AND KINGS

the proud father

[December 14, 2004]
David Nigel Lloyd's SONGS OF REINVENTION, as he was calling his current work in progress, birthed and officially named itself on December 13th, 2004. Consisting of 16 titles, DNL has renamed this, his fifth album, RIVERS AND KINGS. He intends to release the album in Spring of 2005.

"The rivers," said DNL, "are the Thames, the Columbia, the Kern, and the River of Blood. The kings are a strange broken bunch: there's the King of the Deep Dark Well, King Jack O'Lantern, Charles Stuart, King Jesus and any number of characters who act like kings."

The recordings so far consist of voice and accompanying instrument: guitar or octar. "Some of them will stay that way," DNL says. "Others will have other instruments added but don't look for any big production numbers."

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Two Ancient Projects Enter Digital Domain

A Tascam 388

[August 26, 2004]
On August 21st and 22nd, two ancient tape-recorders made their way up the mountain to deposit their ancient wisdom into the digital matrices of Clear Creek Recording studios.

The first venerable machine was my 30 year-old Teac 3340. The transport controls are now quite idiosyncratic. SO, I was very happy to load the master tapes for Dave Soyars' hitherto abandoned SCATTERED BUT COMPLETE CD project onto the machine and transfer them into the digital domain.

The second venerable machine was of slightly more recent provenance. In 1992, David Nigel Lloyd and His Mojave Desert Ceilidh Band made their only 'studio' recording on a Tascam 388. We were left with master tapes that could only be played on another 388. So the project lay dormant for 12 years until last May I discovered a 388 in a San Pablo living room.

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"Songs of Reinvention" Underway

May 14, 2004
I am currently at work on my 5th album up at Clear Creek Recording in Hart Flat. Multi-instrumentalist/recording engineer Dave Ogden there is getting wonderful sounds off my guitars. So far, I have about 9 songs (instrument and vocal) down. Working title: Songs of Reinvention.

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