In memoriam, David Lindley

 Shit.  You have heard David Lindley, even if you didn't know you were hearing David Lindley.  He was a virtuoso of every stringed instrument.  He started with the weirdest band ever:  Kaleidoscope.  They were brilliant.  Then, he went his own way, while backing big names from the 70s on, initially, most prominently, Jackson Browne.  All of those cool guitar solos on Jackson Browne tunes?  David Lindley.  He had plenty of other projects of many varieties, but he was best known as a slide guitarist.  Few have ever rivaled him.  I intended to post the version of "Oh Death," from Twango Bango II, with Wally Ingram.  Instead, I found this duet with Ry Cooder, who is no slouch either, yet here, he's playing next to David Lindley.  Lindley is the guy on the viewer's left, playing lap-style.  It is a Weissenborn guitar, which is a hollow-necked instrument with strings elevated above the fretboard like a dobro, lapsteel or pedal-steel.  Cooder and Lindley collaborated frequently, as like-minded artists, who worked well together.  Alas, no more.