danjowill
Basics
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Location:
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I am looking for:Woman
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Zip Code:80304
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Age:70
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Body:Average
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Ethnicity:White
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Education:Doctorate
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Job:Musician
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Has Kids:Yes, over 18
ABOUT
David is an Emmy winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who plays a variety of string instruments. His musical influences include everything from gypsy jazz to delta blues to bluegrass and folk. As a singer-songwriter, he is known for his way with words and melodies, which conjure up the American musical landscape. His songs and stories touch on everything from the difficulties of love to the people and places along old Route 66, or a carnival from his childhood, or swing tunes reminiscent of Tin-Pan-Alley—in a wide range of CDs released over the last 30 years.
David has also spent decades studying the passionate guitar work of the famed gypsy swing instrumentalist, Django Reinhardt, and his band, DECO DJANGO, specializes in this infectious music from the 1930s. David played backup guitar and mandolin with Greg Brown in the 80s, and he also studied and performed with the great mandolinist Jethro Burns, of Homer and Jethro fame.
David is also a working cartoonist, who work appears around the world through Carlton Cards and Soultrader of London.David has published a number of children’s books with Alfred A. Knopf and Ghost Road Press, as well as short stories and poems. He holds a Ph.D. in English, and he has been a writer in residence at a number of colleges and universities in the US in Writing. He has also written and recorded ALA and NAPPA award-winning albums for children, and was the songwriter for the PBS children’s show The Big Green Rabbit, for which he won an Emmy in 2009. Videos of his songs on YouTube have over 80 million hits.
What I am looking for
Singer, songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, string musician, artist, writer, inventive, out of the box, energetic
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