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David Nigel Lloyd @ nX Annex, Bakersfield, CA

Non-traditional traditionalist David Nigel Lloyd's returns to Bakersfield after four years. Expect the usual blend of obscure wonders and toe taping fun as DNL unveils his latest mix ancient traditional material, modern song poetry, true tales and outrageous lies.

With his "spirited singing and full-bodied playing," (Dirty Linen) "Lloyd is as much American influenced as British" (Steve Hochman, The LA Times). He accompanies himself on guitar and the 8-stringed octar.

Lloyd's predecessors were innovative singer/guitarists like Martin Carthy, Robin Williamson and the late Bert Jansch. In mid-60s London, they saw the ballads, the blues, beat poetry, ragas, Zen teaching tales etc. as aspects of the same thing: a new popular song. Often as not they were fine song poets, too. Lloyd is firmly in their non-tradition.

Though he sometimes sings traditional songs as he finds them, DNL often overlays them with new but related lyrics. In them, the olde Anglo-Celtic pantheon of demon knights, faerie queens and divine drunkards are often found wandering the deserts, mountains and boom towns of Southern California where DNL lived for 35 years. "A strongly individual musical and poetic mind is at work here." (beGlad, UK)

He now lives in Yreka in far Northern California.