The David Luning Band at HopMonk Sebastopol

“It’s nice to hear a commanding baritone voice again with a Steve Earle baked in spirit with polish…David sings with an articulate narrative but with a generous dose of John Hiatt nuance — more dry red wine than chablis”- Americana Highways

With the intuitive sense and emotional depth of a filmmaker, Americana artist David Luning looks deeply into the human condition in his music. He spent a few years studying film scoring at the Berklee College of Music, then John Prine changed his life. “Some friends shared Prine’s music with me… I discovered there were other ways to express emotions and make you feel things. There are layers in lyrical content in a song, and with the right lyric you can create a thousand images in your head.”