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David Shelley

David Shelley Blues Send email to David Shelley	Powerful blues rock guitar. Soulful testifying vocals. Heartfelt original songwriting. Passionate percussion with a hard grooving band. These elements make up the music of David Shelley. Fusing traditional forms with unique cultural experiences, David Shelley is a roots rocker with a worldbeat edge, a bluesman for the planet Earth. David Shelley was born in California with musical genes. His grandfather was famous songwriter/producer Buddy DeSylva of "Best Things In Life Are Free" fame and his mother sang in big bands with Glen Miller and Harry James and was in movies like "In A Lonely Place" with Humphrey Bogart. David spent his high school years in South Florida pounding the drum kit for various garage bands, but it wasn't until journeying to the mountains of Northern California that he took up the guitar and began singing, mentored by Jeff Savage, a musician beloved in the region. In a rite of passage familar to many, the elder artist indoctrinated Shelley with a vast collection of Chess records and folkloric knowledge, forever binding David's style to forefathers like Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf. Add influences like Jimi Hendrix and the Southern rock of the era and David Shelley's musical foundations had taken root.
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