David Wilcox.

David Patrick Wilcox (born 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1472x1614, 1499 KB) Summary Photo of David Wilcox, taken from the Electronic Press Kit at the press photo section of his website. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1472x1614, 1499 KB) Summary Photo of David Wilcox, taken from the Electronic Press Kit at the press photo section of his website. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ...

Wilcox was born in Mentor, Ohio; He attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH in 1976 where he started learning guitar. He later transferred to Warren Wilson College in North Carolina in 1981 and graduated in 1985. Mentor is a city in Lake County, Ohio, United States. ... Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. ... Yellow Springs is a village located in Greene County, Ohio. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Warren Wilson College is a small liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina, about ten miles east of Asheville on Black Mountain Highway. ... This article is the current U.S. Collaboration of the Week. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Within two years he had released his first album, and by 1989 he had signed with a major label. Three albums later, the major label released him, but he continued to tour and release albums. See also: 1988 in music, other events of 1989, 1990 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 7 - Genesis 88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London January 14 - Paul McCartney releases Back in the...

In reviews his voice is perhaps most often compared with James Taylor, though a 1994 Acoustic Guitar cover story characterized it as Taylor combined with a "husky breathiness more reminiscent of the late Nick Drake." That article also called him the "best known of the brilliant crop of singer-songwriters to emerge in the late '80s." This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Nicholas Rodney Drake (June 19, 1948 – November 25, 1974) was an English singer/songwriter and musician best known for his solo acoustic, autumnal songs. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

Wilcox plays primarily acoustic guitar, and he was one of several prominent guitarists who popularized the Olson Guitar brand in the 1990s. His fingerstyle playing, influenced by Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell, utilizes open tuning extensively, often in combination with customized capos with notches cut out to allow lower strings to ring open. A steel string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound. ... Fingerpicking, or playing fingerstyle, is a technique for playing the guitar, or some other stringed instrument using the fingertips and/or fingernails, rather than with a plectrum (or pick). It is used for classical guitar, and some other acoustic styles, but it has found its way into other genres as... Nicholas Rodney Drake (June 19, 1948 – November 25, 1974) was an English singer/songwriter and musician best known for his solo acoustic, autumnal songs. ... Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician and painter. ... In guitar playing, an open tuning is one where the strings are tuned so that a chord is achieved without fretting, or pressing any of the strings. ... A basic guitar capo A capo (short for capodastra) is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo. ...

Discography

• Vista (What Are Records? - 2006)
• Out Beyond Ideas (What Are Records? - 2005, with his wife Nance Pettit)
• Into The Mystery (What Are Records? - 2003)
• Live Songs and Stories (What Are Records? - 2002)
• The Very Best of David Wilcox (A&M Records - 2001)
• What You Whispered (Vanguard Records - 2000)
• Underneath (Vanguard Records - 1999)
• Turning Point (Koch International - 1997)
• East Asheville Hardware (Fresh Baked Records/Koch Records - 1996)
• Big Horizon (A&M Records - 1994)
• Home Again (A&M Records - 1991)
• Mostly Live: An Authorized Bootleg (A&M Records - 1991)
• How Did You Find Me Here (A&M Records - 1989)
• Nightshift Watchman (Song of the Wood - 1987, re-released Fresh Baked Records/Koch Records - 1996)

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Most recent albums

His album Out Beyond Ideas is a joint project with his wife (Nance Pettit), and a significant diversion from his prior work. It features sacred poetry set to music. The poems are from people of various religious traditions: Religious music (also sacred music) is music performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. ...

• Saint Francis of Assisi
• Sufi mystic Jalaludin Rumi
• Persian mystic Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (خواجه شمس‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی)
• Rabia al Basri from Basra
• Jewish mystical poets Judiah Halevi and Solomon Ben Judah,
• Uvavnuk, an Netsilik Inuit shaman, and
• Kabir (कबीर) from India.

His latest album Vista was released in April 2006. A November 16, 2005 note from Wilcox's website titled "New Notes from the Road" commented on the album: Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – 3 October 1226) founded the Franciscan Order or Friars Minor. He is the patron saint of animals, merchants, Italy, Catholic action, and the environment. ... Sufism (Arabic تصوف taṣawwuf) is a system of esoteric philosophy commonly associated with Islam. ... Mysticism from the Greek μυστικός (mystikos) an initiate (of the Eleusinian Mysteries, μυστήρια (mysteria) meaning initiation[1]) is the pursuit of achieving communion or identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight; and the belief that such experience is an... Mawlana Rumi Mawlānā Jalāl ad-DÄ«n Muhammad RÅ«mÄ«[1] (Arabic:مولانا جلال الدين محمد رومي) ‎ (1207 – 1273 CE), also known as Muhammad BalkhÄ« (Persian: محمد بلخى) or Celâladin Mehmet Rumi (Turkish), was a Persian poet, jurist, theologian and teacher of Sufism. ... The Persians of Iran (officially named Persia by West until 1935 while still referred to as Persia by some) are an Iranian people who speak Persian (locally named Fârsi by native speakers) and often refer to themselves as ethnic Iranians as well. ... Hafez, detail of an illumination in a Persian manuscript of the Divan of Hafez, 18th century. ... Location of Basra Basra (also spelled BaÅŸrah or Basara; historically sometimes written Busra, Busrah, and the early form Bassorah; Arabic: , Al-Basrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of c. ... The tree of life Kabbalah (קבלה Reception, Standard Hebrew Qabbala, Tiberian Hebrew Qabbālāh; also written variously as Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, Qabala, Qabalah) is a religious philosophical system claiming an insight into divine nature. ... Judah Ha-Levi, also Yehudah Halevi, or Judah ben Samuel Halevi (Hebrew רבי יהודה הלוי) (c. ... Solomon Ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah, is a Spanish Jewish poet and philosopher. ... There are other articles with similar names; see Inuit (disambiguation). ... The shaman is an intellectual and spiritual figure who is regarded as possessing power and influence on other peoples in the tribe and performs several functions, primarily that of a healer ( medicine man). The shaman provides medical care, and serves other community needs during crisis times, via supernatural means (means... Kabir (also Kabira, Hindi: , Punjabi: , Urdu: , 1440 - 1518) was an Indian mystic who preached an ideal of seeing all of humanity as one. ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ben Wisch did such an awesome job taking the tracks that I did at home and turning them into my best CD ever. As usual, it has more tracks than most CDs because with all the time it took for me to get this CD out, it's really more like a "best of" CD than just this year's harvest....

[For] one song on the VISTA CD I recorded my part outside and the subtle sound of the birds was just what it needed.

External links

• Official website
• 1994 interview with Wilcox, focused on technical aspects of his guitar playing; also available from his website
• David Wilcox at the What Are Records website
• David Wilcox Lyrics