By Robert Emslie
Some music acts are better on the record than they are live, but that’s not the case with David Perry Lindley, who it just so happens was born in my home town of San Marino, Californ-eye-aye. Showing his talent early on, Lindley was a five-time winner of the Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest before he had exited his teens. That talent and his eagerness to learn new instruments made him a hot commodity in the sixties, both as a session musician, and as back up to such musical luminaries as Jackson Brown, Curtis Mayfield, and Dolly Parton. Yes, that Dolly Parton. Lindley’s is probably best known however for one song, performed with his own band El Rayo X, and that’s the K.C. Douglas/Robert Geddins scorcher, Mercury Blues written back when Lindley was only 5 years old. Here he is along with El Rayo X, performing Mercury Blues in Metropol, Berlin back in 1988, and sounding awesome. Check it out, right after the jump.
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Source: YouTube
Jeff Glucker