This weekend, the Nation Music Corridor of Fame and Museum hosted a songwriter spherical honoring singer-songwriter David Olney. This system included tribute performances by Steve Earle, Mary Gauthier, Jaimee Harris and Jim Lauderdale.
Singer-songwriter Olney, who died in 2020, launched greater than two dozen albums throughout his five-decade profession as each a solo artist and a member of the Nashville Jug Band and the X-Rays. His songs have been recorded by Kieran Kane, Del McCoury, Linda Ronstadt, Townes Van Zandt and Nation Music Corridor of Fame member Emmylou Harris. New West Data lately launched Can’t Steal My Hearth: The Songs of David Olney — a tribute album that includes Earle, Gauthier, Lauderdale, the McCrary Sisters, Buddy Miller, the SteelDrivers, Lucinda Williams and others.
Within the early Nineteen Eighties, he recorded two albums for Rounder Data with The X-Rays. The group appeared on Austin Metropolis Limits, opened for main acts, together with Elvis Costello, and broke up in 1985.
Olney died of an obvious coronary heart assault throughout a efficiency onstage on the 30A Songwriter Pageant in Santa Rosa Seashore, Florida, on January 18, 2020, on the age of seventy-one. He was in the midst of his third tune when he stopped, apologized and shut his eyes, based on fellow musician Scott Miller, who was accompanying Olney.
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