David is a native of Kingsville, Texas, a place that the prickly pear, the rattlesnake, and the famed King Ranch also call home. His songs come from an attitude and an upbringing as indigenous as the mesquite tree, with turns of phrase twisting in as many unpredictable angles as a mesquite branch can eccenter itself. Musically, there are hints of folk, country, bluegrass, and Texas swing. His heroes are the troubadours of the era : guys like Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, John Prine, Jimmy Buffett, and of course there's Willie (Nelson) and Lyle (Lovett.) Perhaps some of these have influenced his writing style, but not nearly as much as has life itself. Listeners can walk the fence-row along the poles of fact and fantasy tied together by strands of lyrical realism, supported by the tension that comes from stretches of the imagination locked between staples of world-wide experience. Look out for a few barbs of humor!