David Briggs
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David Paul Briggs (born March 16, 1943 in Killen, Alabama, United States)is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer and studio owner. Briggs is one of an elite core of Nashville studio musicians known as "the Nashville Cats" and has been featured in a major exhibition by the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015. He played his first recording session at the age of 14 and has gone on to add keyboards to a plethora of pop, rock, and country artists, as well as recording hundreds of corporate commercials.
Career
In May 1966, he was given the opportunity of recording on sessions for Elvis Presley's album How Great Thou Art when Floyd Cramer was running late. Briggs continued to record and tour with Presley until February 1977.
Briggs and Norbert Putnam opened Quadrafonic Studios in the late 1960s. It was sold in 1976 and Briggs opened House of David.
Briggs was a recording artist on Decca, Polydor and Monument records in the mid to late 1960s and member of the band Area Code 615 from 1969-1971.
Artists he has worked with include Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Joan Baez, Nancy Sinatra, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton,Waylon Jennings, Tony Joe White, George Harrison, Todd Rundgren, Roy Orbison, The Monkees, J. J. Cale, Kris Kristofferson, Alice Cooper and many others.
Briggs was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1999.
Briggs was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019.
Collaborations
- Country, My Way - Nancy Sinatra (1967)
- Just Because I'm a Woman - Dolly Parton (1968)
- Any Day Now - Joan Baez (1968)
- Black and White - Tony Joe White (1968)
- One Day at a Time - Joan Baez (1970)
- Tony Joe - Tony Joe White (1970)
- Blessed Are... - Joan Baez (1971)
- Naturally - J. J. Cale (1971)
- Home Free - Dan Fogelberg (1972)
- Really - J. J. Cale (1972)
- Rock and Roll Resurrection - Ronnie Hawkins (1972)
- Come from the Shadows - Joan Baez (1973)
- Hank Wilson's Back Vol. I - Leon Russell (1973)
- Sweet Revenge - John Prine (1973)
- Homemade Ice Cream - Tony Joe White (1973)
- Where Are You Now, My Son? - Joan Baez (1973)
- Seven - Bob Seger (1974)
- 7-Tease - Donovan (1974)
- Jolene - Dolly Parton (1974)
- From a Radio Engine to the Photon Wing - Michael Nesmith (1977)
- 5 - J. J. Cale (1979)
- Kenny - Kenny Rogers (1979)
- Evangeline - Emmylou Harris (1981)
- Shades - J. J. Cale (1981)
- Coconut Telegraph - Jimmy Buffett (1981)
- Love Me Tender - B.B. King (1982)
- Grasshopper - J. J. Cale (1982)
- Civilized Man - Joe Cocker (1984)
- Letter to Home - Glen Campbell (1984)
- High Country Snows - Dan Fogelberg (1985)
- King of Hearts - Roy Orbison (1992)
- Shania Twain - Shania Twain (1993)
- Do Right Man - Dan Penn (1994)
- No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems - Kenny Chesney (2002)