Described as "engagingly eccentric" on the vast allmusic.com website, David Nigel Lloyd is one of the least traditional of traditional performers. His repertoire blends British ballads, honky-tonk poems, allusive rockers, and literary blues. He has been performing for more than a quarter century. Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band called DNL's music "wry, witty, acute and literary."

Click on 'Albums' to the left. These mp3 albums are only available from this site or from DNL at his performances.

Click the 'More CDs Available on Another Web Site' to get to DNL's "CDstreet.com" site. DNL's official full-length CDs are available here ("An Age of Fable;" "Death in Los Fumos;" and "How Like Ghosts Are We") along with his chapbook: "How to Write a Traditional Song."

"Go to the Artists Web Site" gets you to DNL's iuma (Independent Underground Music Archive) site for some pictures and info on some other fine musicians who have worked with him.

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"And Keep Our Foe at Bay" genre: Celtic
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	An updated "Lowlands of Holland" from the perspective of a Vietnam War widow, DNL dedicated it to his mother.
	MP3.com CD: Lonesome Desert Ceilidh - buy it! CD: Lonesome Desert Ceilidh/An Age of Fable   Label: Silk Purse Records Credits: trad/DNL
"The Bird in the Bush" genre: Celtic
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	Given the song's subject, the word 'health might give today's listener pause to think.
	MP3.com CD: Selected Ghosts - buy it! CD: How Like Ghosts Are We   Label: Silk Purse Records Credits: trad.
"On the Trail of Tears" genre: Celtic
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	Set to the tune, "The Foggy Foggy Dew." DNL's delight as a 9-year old immigrant contrasts with the Indian removals of the early 1800s. How old is this tune we now associate with the Easter Rising? Could Andrew Jackson or Chief John Ross have known it? Both had Celtic ancestry.
	MP3.com CD: Selected Ghosts - buy it! CD: How Like Ghosts Are We   Label: Silk Purse Records Credits: DNL
"The Deserter/Brief Poem" genre: Celtic
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	Learned accidentally to the tune of "The Cuckoo", "The Deserter" frames my brief poem in which the condemned man sees death as a Christmas tree.
	MP3.com CD: Selected Ghosts - buy it! CD: How Like Ghosts Are We   Label: Silk Purse Records Credits: trad/DNL
"Rebecca Rebecca" genre: European
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	A dark, brooding love song for DNL's wife, it ws also heard on "Late Night With David Letterman."
	MP3.com CD: Lonesome Desert Ceilidh - buy it! CD: An Age of Fable   Label: Silk Purse Records Credits: DNL
"m'Zee's Blessing, Poor Little Englishman" genre: Folk
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	Swahili speakers must forgive DNL's mispronunciation of m'Zee. This brush with the supernatural in 1954 provides a natural introducction to his allegory of Empire lost, "The Poor Little Englishman," recorded live at the Media Room in Pacific Grove.
	MP3.com CD: Cúchulainn Alive! - buy it! CD: Cúchulainn Alive!   Label: Silk Purse Records Credits: DNL
"In the Fog Appointed Darkness" genre: Folk
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	The King of the Unknown reclaims his throne. Recorded live in Pacific Grove, California, this song has been described as Leonard Cohen meets Jim Morrison who in turn meet William Blake.?
	MP3.com CD: Cúchulainn Alive! - buy it! CD: Cúchulainn Alive!   Label: Silk Purse Records Credits: DNL
"Cúchulainn in Bakersfield_copy" genre: Folk
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	Cúchulainn (KooHULen) was a great medieval Irish hero. Bakersfield (buhAKEursfeeuld) was once the great C&W Mecca of the West. In this live performance, DNL meets the former in the latter.
	CD: Cúchulainn Alive!   Label: Silk Purse Records Credits: DNL

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