09/11/2024
GUEST GUITARIST SKYDOG 78 (always the Sunday before Thanksgiving) www.skydogmacon.com
Joining Dusty McCook and a long line up of stellar musicians who will make up the Rhythm Section (each year) will be Mr. Dave Perkins
Bio
Dave Perkins is an artist whose musical journey crisscrosses the map of American music. Perkins& #39; work as
a guitarist includes playing bluegrass and swing with fiddle-great Vassar Clements, Texas renegade-
country with Jerry Jeff Walker, singer-songwriter pop with Carole King, Americana with Guy Clark,
psychedelic blues and jazz with violinist Papa John Creach, reggae with Mystic Meditations, alt-rock with
Chagall Guevara, and industrial hard-core with Passafist. Then, there were numerous other high points,
such as accompanying Ray Charles on his "3/4 Time" video. Perkins& #39; associations with the above artists
contributed mightily to his songwriting mind as can be heard on his recently released Local Life (Lugnut
Music). Perkins& #39; solo recordings can be found on Spotify, et al. They are Fugitive Colors, The
Innocence, Pistol City Holiness, and the soundtrack from the film Deadline. His songwriting and guitar
work with the alt-rock band Chagall Guevara reignited after a three decades-long break with the release
of The Last Amen in 2022 and Halcyon Days in 2023. To herald the band’s much anticipated reunion
show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, their first album for MCA/Universal, Chagall Guevara was re-
released. Alongside his forty years as a professional music maker, Perkins earned a Ph.D. in History and
Critical Theories of Religion from Vanderbilt University where he was until recently overseer of Vanderbilt
Divinity School& #39;s Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program. With over 100 of his songs
recorded by a variety of artists, Perkins’ work as a music composer and lyricist-poet is ongoing. His
forthcoming memoir, Spiritual Aphrodisiac: Adventures in Sound and Spirit tells the story of that life.
