
He can awe an audience into
pin-drop silence with a solo acoustic blues
or goose his fans to their feet with a bluegrass
reel by his Quartet or an R&B romp by
his Big Band. David Bromberg has spent his
life absorbing traditional music from its
surviving creators and their recordings
so convincingly – while adding his
own instrumental twists – that he
has become a part of musical tradition itself,
as close to the source of American roots
music as anyone alive. Folk, blues, bluegrass,
ragtime, you name it – he has become
The Real Deal.