Delaney Davidson "Rough Diamond" 2007

“Part wandering minstrel, part traveling salesman…” reads the bio on Delaney Davidson’s website. “Singer-songwriter, noir protagonist, promotional coyote, one-man band, production svengali...”
...Delaney Davidson is all these things and more. He has been a recipient of an Arts Foundation Laureate and is a three-time winner of the APRA Best Country Music Song Award. He has starred in films, performed in plays and collaborated with many of the country’s best-known musical figures: Neil Finn, Tami Neilson, Barry Saunders and Marlon Williams, among others. And yet he remains a mercurial figure: artistically indefinable, forever in motion. As the bio says, “part man, part wheel.”
Davidson’s journey began in Christchurch, by the banks of the Heathcote River. As a child he took lessons in piano and cello, learned recorder at school, and some violin. His father’s record collection introduced him to 1960s and 70s rock – Stones, Kinks, Bowie – as well as the Chicago blues of the Chess label. “He took me to a lot of music when I was young,” he says of his dad. “The Rolling Stones when I was two months old, Lou Reed when I was four. Sonny Terry when he came out.”
He would also take the young Delaney to hear orchestral performances of classical music.
Delaney had artistic impulses of his own. “I remember I was six or seven, sitting at the piano and looking at the bookshelf and seeing the spines of all these books and making songs up about these books – and it was always down the bottom end of the piano, the dark end – and freaking myself out. I’d eventually have to leave the room because the piano was winding me up so much.”...to be continued... - audioculture
trax:
1. I Told A Secret 2. Golde Heart II 3. Dark Horses 4. I Slept Late 5. Foggy Harbour 6. You've Changed 7. Wicked Wiggler 8. Dixon Lie 9. In The Aisles 10.Pocket Full Of Money 11. Zownir 12. Time Has Gone 13. Frontseat
…served by Gaius…