Jackson Browne and David Lindley played an outstanding set at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 2006. This show is in tribute to David Lindley died at the age of 78 on March 4 2023.

David Lindley was known by many as Jackson Browne's accompanist playing pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, fiddle and a variety of other stringed instruments.  

 We're sad to hear the news of David Lindley's death on March 4th.  As Rolling Stone Magazine stated: "David Lindley, Multi-Instrumentalist Who Shaped the Sound of Soft Rock, Dead at 78".  In addition to Jackson Browne, David Lindley collaborated with the likes of , Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Toto, Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt,  Joe Walsh, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, Curtis Mayfield, Dolly Parton and Ry Cooder.

An active musician since the Sixties, Lindley was a popular session musician whose skillset when it came to playing string instruments like the fiddle and guitar made him a must-have collaborator.  He played in the band "Kaleidoscope" in the 60's and in 1981, formed his own band  El Rayo-X.  Jackson Browne produced their first album. . 

Several days after his death, Browne shared a touching tribute for Lindley, saying he fave his “personality and his inspiration to so many of my songs.”

“We started to play my song ‘These Days,’ and my world changed,” Browne wrote on Instagram on March 17. “His playing was so emotional, and immediate – it cast a spell over me and everyone there. It didn’t matter that he had never heard the song before. What he was playing made it more emotional and more real than it had ever sounded in the years I had played it alone.”

“One of the most talented musicians there has ever been,” Graham Nash wrote. “David could play pretty much any instrument you put in front of him with incredible versatility and expression.”

Lindley could often be found in the studio working alongside other members of The Section, a crew of session musicians who shaped the sound of soft rock in the 1970s. “They were some of the most creative musicians around,” David Crosby, who hired Lindley in 1975, told Rolling Stone back in 2013. “You never had to tell them what to play. You sang them a song and got the fuck out of the way.”

 Enjoy this special tribute to David Lindley as we listen to him accompany Jackson Browne at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in August of 2006.