David Bagsby
is a Cherokee musician, film maker, photographer and composer
born in Tulsa, OK and now residing in Kansas City, MO.
He has studied under Jazz guitarist Stanley
Jordan.
His music encompasses progressive/symphonic rock,
humanly impossible rhythmic hierarchies,
translated nature recordings, acoustic guitar works.
Some selected comments: "I enjoyed your original take
on contemporary progressive music. Keep up the great work" Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
"Nice to know someone is still making interesting music" Kerry Livgren (Kansas)
"I think he does some great stuff." Dave Stewart (Bruford/National
Health)
"the outer fringe of progressive rock" Keyboard "Wonderful, excellent work" Mike Keneally (Zappa/Steve Vai)
"World's greatest living background artist" Steve Balderson (director of Firecracker and Watch Out)
Steve
Bagsby
plays Western Swing in the style of
Speedy West, Spade Cooley, Noel Boggs, Leon McAuliffe & Bob Wills.
Steve plays steel guitar, fiddle, guitar, bass, ukelele, mandolin, banjo as
well as singing. He has performed with the Texas Playboys as well as appearing on
the multi-platinum debut cd by the Tractor's
.
Steve's cd, 'Talihina Hula' has airtime at this podcast, Hometown
Heroes...brought to you by Diabolical Productions.
You can hear some of this cd from time to time in Tulsa on John Wooley's "Swing on This"
radio show on KWGS 89.5 FM on Saturday at 7 pm. This show also streams
for you non-Tulsans.
Playlist.