Dave Ogden
Dave grew up in a musical family with both parents playing piano and two brothers, violin and cello. His grandad, Daniel Miller Ogden, played old time fiddle that he learned from his grandfather, a fiddling country doctor in Virginia in the early-mid 1800s. Dave chose the guitar and has played solo and in bands continually his whole life. He also plays the wooden flute, cittern/bouzouki, bass, bodhran and dabble in a few others. He has always gravitated to traditional music, especially that of the British Isles, inspired by Bert’s playing.
The Flower of Magherally
An old Irish folk song played by Dave Ogden for Bert Jansch
This is a version of a trad song that Bert would have heard in the folk clubs in Scotland or Ireland or on trips to America and I think would have liked. With rhythmic fingerstyle guitar accompaniment, it’s right up his alley. I’ve loved Bert’s music since I first found it while I was a teenager. One of the record stores in my hometown of Spokane, Washington carried lots of English folk LP’s and I started with his work in Pentangle then his solo albums. I still have all my old LPs, including eight of Bert’s albums and four by Pentangle, as well as his albums I could only find on CD, like LA Turnaround. I remember playing and singing songs like ‘The Snows’ while I was in high school.
