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Pedal Steel Guitarist.

Phillips is a modern innovator on the pedal steel guitar, bringing the instrument into many other styles of music other than the country & western music it is usually associated with. David is Georgia native who started his music career as a lead guitarist. He eventually relocated to the Bay Area.
He’s played with rockers such as James Hetfield from Metallica and Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains, to unclassifiable artists like Les Claypool and Tom Waits. He currently divides his time between being the musical director for the Patsy Cline tribute show Always Patsy and performing with Chris Kee and Jane Selkye in the springhouse. David is a fluid master of pedal steel, lap steel, dobro and 6-string guitar. David has performed with Houston Jones and now The Jones Gang.

APPEARANCES +


Days Between Stations
Giants
2020
Allelujah
Limited Edition Vol. 4
2019, 7", Ltd, Num, Cosmic Dreamer Music
Metallica
AWMH Helping Hands Concert November 3, 2018 / San Francisco, CA
2019, ,
Heavy Metal/Hard Rock/Acoustic
The Sound Field
The Bucket List
2017, CDr, Album, Rocker Chick Media
Forest Sun
Walk Through Walls
2016
Meklit* & Quinn*
Meklit & Quinn
2012, CD, Album, Porto Franco Records,
Jinx Jones
Rip And Run
2010, CD, Album, Home Brænd
Rich Shapero
Wild Animus (Sauvage Animus)
2009, 3xCD, Album, Comp, Dig + Box, + B, Outside Reading, ,
Folk Rock/Acoustic/Alternative Rock
77 El Deora
Hammer & Tongs
2008, CD, Album, Western Independent Recordings
Frances England
Mind Of My Own
2008, CD, Album, Dig, Not On Label (Frances England Self-released)
Forest Sun
Harlequin Goodnight
2008
Forest Sun
So Nice
2008
Steve Von Till
A Grave Is A Grim Horse
2008, CD, ,
Folk Rock/Acoustic/Country Rock
General Fuzz
Soulful Filling
2008
Jeffrey Luck Lucas
What We Whisper
2006, CD, Album, Antebellum (2), ,
Alternative Rock/Acoustic/Ethereal/Neofolk
8mm
Songs To Love And Die By...
2006, CD, ,
Trip Hop/Ethereal
Jinx Jones
Rumble & Twang
2006
77 El Deora
Sirens
2005, CD, Album, Western Independent Recordings
Charlie Hunter
Steady Groovin'
2005, CD, Comp, Blue Note,
Houston Jones
Three Crow Town
2005, HDCD, Album, Summerhill Records, Fiddling Cricket Music
Firecracker
So Long Someday
2005
Jeffrey Luck Lucas
Hell Then Divine
2004, CD, Album, Antebellum (2), ,
Alternative Rock/Acoustic/Folk/Country Rock
Calamity & Main
Honky Tonk Heaven
2003, CD, Album, Western Independent Recordings, ,
Folk Rock/Country Rock/Country/Bluegrass/Honky Tonk/Folk
Austin Willacy
Page 7
2002, HDCD, Album, Square Records (45),
Jinx Jones
License to Twang
2001, CD, Album, Red Roque Records
Preston School Of Industry
All This Sounds Gas
2001
The Highway 1 Ensemble
Leaving Yesterday
2000, CD, Dunn Deal Records
The Lullaby Baxter Trio*
Capable Egg
2000
Big Lou, The Accordion Princess*
Big Lou's Polka Casserole
1999, CD, Album, Accordion Princess Records, Don't Quit Your Day Job Records, ,
Polka
Jeff Bright And The Sunshine Boys
She's A Nail In My Heart
1999, CD, Rogue Records
Mr. Bungle
California
1999
The Wrockers
Stranger Than Fiction
1998
Custard
Wisenheimer / Wahooti Fandango
1996
John Wesley Harding
New Deal
1996
Charlie Hunter Trio
Bing, Bing, Bing!
1995
Custard
Wisenheimer
1995, CD, ,
Alternative Rock/Indie Rock
Stephen Yerkey
Confidence, Man
1994, CD, ,
Folk Rock/Country Blues
Potato Eaters*
I Thought I Heard You
1992, CD, EP, Rastascan Records
Tom Waits
Bone Machine
1992, CD, ,
Experimental/Ballad/Post Rock
Metallica
Helping Hands... Live & Acoustic At The Masonic
2019, ,
Acoustic
Mr. Bungle
California
1999, ,
Lounge/Rock & Roll/Doo Wop/Avantgarde/Heavy Metal
Tom Waits
Bone Machine
1997