David Olney
David Olney was born in Providence, Rhode Island, United States on March 23rd, 1948 and is the Folk Singer. At the age of 71, David Olney biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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David Charles Olney is an American folk singer-songwriter.
Personal life and death
Olney and his wife Regine, with whom he had a son, Redding, and a daughter, Lillian, lived in Nashville, Tennessee. Olney's solo career began with a shared admiration for Townes Van Zandt. Van Zandt bought Olney a sports coat from a Goodwill store in Little Rock.
During a live performance at the 30A Songwriter Festival in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, Olney died of a suspected heart attack during a performance onstage on January 18, 2020, at the age of seventy-one. According to fellow singer Scott Miller, who was accompanying Olney, he was in the middle of his third album when he stopped, apologized, and closed his eyes.
Career
Olney was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 23, 1948. He joined Bland Simpson's band Simpson after briefly attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1971, they released one album in New York. He migrated to Atlanta and in 1973, hoped to export his music to record labels, but the next year, he returned to Nashville.
He formed the band The X-Rays in the 1980s, which released two albums on Rounder Records. The group debuted in 1985, opening for big acts, including Elvis Costello, and breaking up in 1985.
Olney performed as a solo singer-songwriter, selling more than 20 albums, six of which were live recordings, over the years. He has collaborated with musicians such as John Hadley and Sergio Webb. Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Linda Ronstadt, Del McCoury, and Laurie Lewis, among others, wrote his songs.
Olney was a key figure in Nashville's music scene. In Music City, the Rhode Island native was a captivating and enigmatic presence. He wrote sonnets and appeared at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, and his live performances reflected tenderness and ferocity, drama and sincerity, mobilisation, and embrace.