Dav!d Reed

I've been told that I am cut from the same stylistic cloth as Jorma Kaukonen, Taj Mahal, Mississippi John Hurt, Joseph Spence, Doc Watson and the Davids Lindley & Bromberg...and that the souls of old Delta & Piedmond bluesmen and West Indian calypsonians inhabit me regularly.

I'm not sure of any of that.  But I do know this: As a multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter/recording artist I've enjoyed bringing miles of smiles to faces and beats to the feet of audiences young & old for most of my life.  Equally at home on festival & coffeehouse stages, house concert settings, or as a complement to your social events, I bring a sunny, bouncy Caribe vibe to my fingerpickin' folkrock, ragtime jazz, cigar box guitar blues and original Americana repertoire.  

* Accomplished finger-style guitar & banjo player & slide guitarist - David Reed is a seasoned performer who also builds wonderfully unique and quirky cigar box guitars under the aegis of Dr. Easy's Sonic Boxes from which he delivers his personal brand of tasty, slip-slidin' juke joint country blues & smokehouse rock.  

* Seven Recordings:  Try It Again (1988), Eclecticity (1993), Asleep at the Keel  (2007), Box Lunch (2022) and Postcard from the Islands (2023).  TuTu Much Is Never Enuff! (1995) with drummer Sam Earnshaw, Gypsy Davy (2019) with his trio The Introv3rts, and the single, Cruel Wind & Rain with wifely vocalist Claudia d'Alessandro (2025).  All on the Dry Duck Record label, of course!

* Session Musician:  guitar, cigar box guitars, percussion, bass, trumpet, banjo, vocals, knees

* Festivals, Tours & House Concerts: Switzerland (Blues to Bop Festival), Italy, England, US Virgin Islands and throughout the US East Coast (ie: Delaware BrewGrass Fest, North Florida Folk Festival, Florida Americana Festival, Barberville Settlement's Spring & Fall Folk Festivals and 74th Annual FL Folk Festival). He was the first American to play the Bansko International Jazz & World Music Festival in Bulgaria. In-Concert with Hot Tuna, Max Creek, New Riders, Jesse Winchester, Third World, David Bromberg, Entrain, Rory Block, Ellis Paul, Utah Phillips, The Ink Spots . . . and others.

* Music Educator: Guest Arts & Technology lecturer at New York University; Finger-style guitar instructor; Library lecture/demonstrations about the "History, Art & Construction of Cigar Box Instruments"; Mill River Folk Arts School; Public school classroom music teacher/band, chorus & orchestra director.

* Author: Numerous essays, short stories, newspaper & magazine music reviewer and author of Getting Started with the 3-String Cigar Box Slide Guitar - Vol. 1.  In the works: An Odd Bird - Stories, Songs & Ramblin's from Over 60 Years of Music-making.

* Press: The International Cigar Box Review magazine (2018), Acoustic Guitar magazine (2006), The Artful Mind magazine (multiple years), numerous print media stories and reviews in the US, Caribbean and Europe.  Radio and TV spots in the US, Swiss and Bulgarian broadcast media.  CTSB-TV Solo Creatives - two episodes (2024).

* Music Videos: calypso song, Digby, made by pioneering Oscar and Grammy award winning filmmaker Doug Trumbull & MAGI Studios (2016).  Numerous self-produced YouTube videos by Lost Hat Productions studio.

* Founder and guitarist (1970-74) of nationally acclaimed and highly-influential jam band Max Creek who continue to record and tour nationally to this day.

 As always, THANK YOU for your interest and support over the years!

 I hope I can play for YOU soon!