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Saturday Nights means Music in the Folklore Store.

Born in Rhode Island, David Olney's experimentation with folk music began during his teenage years after learning to play guitar at the age of 14. While attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he joined his classmate Bland Simpson's band and moved with him to New York to perform. In 1973 David began calling Nashville home, and there he gained considerable notoriety for his songwriting skills. His work has been covered by Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt and Steve Earle, among others. During the 1970s and early 1980s, David gained a following with his band, Dave Olney & The X-Rays, and since then he's made a name for himself as a solo singer-songwriter performing worldwide. "Dutchman's Curve", the prolific musician's latest CD, was released by Deadbeat Records in April of this year, adding to David's more than 20 albums on the shelves.

With four decades of professional experience under his belt, David shows no respect for that old advice to "write what you know." Finding tales ripped from his own life to be less intriguing than the stories he might tell of others - be they people, objects or animals - David has built a solid reputation on a repertoire of gritty, cinematic lyrics that create visuals as memorable as their melodies. He is currently on tour with the talented Sergio Webb, who has made a name for himself as a guitarist "on call to those singers who possess musical integrity."

http://www.davidolney.us/