Steel Guitar & Dobro
David Phillips
A modern innovator on the pedal steel guitar, David brings the expressive, complex instrument into many styles of music other than the country & western music with which it is usually associated. A Georgia native who started his music career as a lead guitarist, David Phillips relocated to the Bay Area in the 1970s, where he has collaborated with such diverse musicians as Peter Rowan, Tom Waits (Bone Machine), Charlie Hunter, and John Wesley Harding. David has played with Metallica, Les Claypool, Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains), Mr. Bungle, The Jones Gang, and more. He is the musical director for the San Francisco Patsy Cline tribute featuring Margaret Belton. David has been featured with the San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley Symphonies.
Bass - Chris Kee
Bassist, guitarist and writer Chris Kee is a classically trained cellist who studied ethnomusicology at Yale. A conscript of long standing in Peter Rowan’s Free Mexican Air Force, playing major festivals and concert venues with Peter, he was the original bass player with the Waybacks, bassist and principal songwriter for Americana powerhouse Houston Jones, and multi-instrumentalist and composer with the alt-Americana trio Springhouse. Much in demand as a hired gun, he has performed with Buddy Miller (including appearances with Buddy, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, and Shawn Colvin), Jim Lauderdale, Norah Jones, Jim Campilongo, the late lamented Ralph Carney, and crypto-Klezmer sorceress Michelle Alany, among many others.
Percussion - Fred Hyer
Percussionist Fred Hyer played with Chris in various bands orbiting around the gravity well of the Starry Plough in Berkeley, way back in the day when the Earth was still cooling. Fred, who knows his guaguanco Havana from his guaguanco Matanzas, and his maqsoum from his balada, adds essential subflooring to the Springhouse superstructure. Fred Hyer has played with The Vicious Hippies, with Chris Kee in the Berkeley Cult band The Natives, Buffalo Roam, Me Jane and Grapefruit Ed.
Jane Selkye
Singer songwriter Jane Selkye is the alter ego of Minx Pinkley. Ms. Pinkley, performing with her musical collaborator and accompanist Henley Hornbrook, is perhaps the premier interpreter of the music of Perry Como, boasting a devoted following in the recreation centers of KOA campgrounds throughout Greater Idaho.
