David Olney Show is Sold Out. No tickets at door.

Event Description

Wow!  An unforgettable night; David Olney with Sergio Webb and John Hansen.  Hold onto your hats; this is going to be amazing.  The Sapphire Room is Boise's best venue for live entertainment.  It's an intimate space with superb sight lines, comfortable seating, lucious food and drink, and the best sound system in Idaho.  To top that off, it's an all-ages venue.

 

HERE'S A BRIEF BIO OF DAVID OLNEY:

Over the course of four decades and 25 critically-acclaimed albums, Olney’s unforgettable songs and powerful performances have attracted a devoted following the world over. Such luminaries as Emmylou Harris, Del McCoury and Linda Ronstadt have recorded his songs, and Townes Van Zandt famously listed him among his four favorites — along with Dylan, Mozart and Lightnin’ Hopkins.

Olney’s musical path brought him to Nashville in 1973 where he fell in with a creative cabal (Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, John Hiatt, et al.) whose new attitudes and creative chance-taking broadened and deepened the scope of Music City songwriting.

In the early 1980s Olney formed a roots rock band, the X-Rays, resulting in a trail of legendary live shows, two well- received albums, and an appearance on Austin City Limits. Then in 1986 came his first solo album, the stunning “Eye of the Storm” (Philo/Rounder), where the singer says he found his voice as a songwriter.

In performance, Olney is a revelation. The shows are seamless and riveting, never more so than in the company of chameleonic multi-instrumentalist Sergio Webb. Since 2007, Webb has added his sonic sorcery to Olney’s songs, enriching and embellishing them with a near-brotherly empathy.