David Mansfield
David Mansfield (born September 13, 1956) is an American musician and composer.Mansfield was raised in Leonia, New Jersey. His father, Newton Mansfield was a first violinist in the New York Philharmonic. David played guitar, pedal steel guitar and fiddle in his first band, called Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends, which also included two sons of Tony Bennett.
Bob Dylan asked Mansfield to tour with him on his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour; he remained in Dylan's band through their 1978 world tour.
After the Revue ended in 1976, Mansfield and two other members of Dylan's band, T-Bone Burnett and Steven Soles, formed The Alpha Band. The band released three albums, ''The Alpha Band'' in 1977, ''Spark in the Dark'' in 1977, and ''The Statue Makers of Hollywood'' in 1978. While Mansfield in 1978 was working on the album, ''The Statue Makers of Hollywood'' with The Alpha Band, he appeared as a guitarist on ''Desire Wire'' by a struggling pop/rock artist Cindy Bullens that same year.
In 1986, Mansfield was an initial member of Bruce Hornsby and the Range, including playing the title instrument on the hit "Mandolin Rain". However, he left the Range before their first tour.
Since The Alpha Band broke up, Mansfield has continued to work as a musician in sessions for Dylan, Burnett, Johnny Cash, Nanci Griffith, Roger McGuinn, Sam Phillips, Mark Heard, The Roches, Edie Brickell, Spinal Tap, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Victoria Williams, Loudon Wainwright III, Willie Nile, Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen and others.
Mansfield composed the music for the 1980 film ''Heaven's Gate'' – he appeared in the movie, playing the fiddle on roller skates – and has since gone on to write scores for a number of other films, including others directed by ''Heaven's Gate's'' Michael Cimino. Mansfield cobbled together the soundtrack album for ''Songcatcher''. He also composed the music for the soundtrack to ''The Ballad of Little Jo'' (1993), a movie written and directed by Maggie Greenwald, whom he married in 1994. Together they adopted two children. Maisie Mansfield-Greenwald (1997) and Lulu Mansfield-Greenwald (2000). He also composed the score with Van Dyke Parks for Walter Hill's ''Broken Trail'' (2006), and they were nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score). Provided by Wikipedia
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6by Sarita Rani Patnaik, Rakesh Kotapati Raghupathy, Xun Zhang, David Mansfield, Xinhua ShuGet full text
Published 2015-01-01
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7by Suzanne Thomas, Linta Kuncheria, Victoria Roulstone, Joan N. Kyula, David Mansfield, Praveen K. Bommareddy, Henry Smith, Howard L. Kaufman, Kevin J. Harrington, Robert S. CoffinGet full text
Published 2019-08-01
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8by Kevin Harrington, Hardev Pandha, Alan Melcher, David Mansfield, Johann De Bono, Victoria Roulstone, Christine White, James Spicer, Richard Vile, Sophia N Karagiannis, Robert J Harris, Katie TwiggerGet full text
Published 2021-07-01
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9by Nicola E. Annels, Mehreen Arif, Guy R. Simpson, Mick Denyer, Carla Moller-Levet, David Mansfield, Rachel Butler, Darren Shafren, Gough Au, Margaret Knowles, Kevin Harrington, Richard Vile, Alan Melcher, Hardev PandhaGet full text
Published 2018-06-01
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10by Julia Stevenson, Rachel Barrow-McGee, Lu Yu, Angela Paul, David Mansfield, Julie Owen, Natalie Woodman, Rachael Natrajan, Syed Haider, Cheryl Gillett, Andrew Tutt, Sarah E. Pinder, Jyoti Choudary, Kalnisha NaidooGet full text
Published 2021-03-01
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11by Elisa Fontana, Anguraj Sadanandam, Paul Carter, Nick West, Sandra Demaria, Kevin Harrington, Alan Melcher, David Mansfield, Katharina von Loga, Fiona Errington-Mais, Anna Wilkins, Gift Nyamundanda, Hannah Bye, Chanthirika Ragulan, Yatish Patil, Jennifer Kingston, Daniel Bottomley, Emma Tinkler-Hundal, Jessica Downs, Magnus Dillon, David Sebag-Montefiore, Arish NoshirwaniGet full text
Published 2021-03-01
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12by Saira Khalique, Sarah Nash, David Mansfield, Julian Wampfler, Ayoma Attygale, Katherine Vroobel, Harriet Kemp, Richard Buus, Hannah Cottom, Ioannis Roxanis, Thomas Jones, Katharina von Loga, Dipa Begum, Naomi Guppy, Pradeep Ramagiri, Kerry Fenwick, Nik Matthews, Michael J. F. Hubank, Christopher J. Lord, Syed Haider, Alan Melcher, Susana Banerjee, Rachael NatrajanGet full text
Published 2021-07-01
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13by Reyes Gonzalez-Exposito, Maria Semiannikova, Beatrice Griffiths, Khurum Khan, Louise J. Barber, Andrew Woolston, Georgia Spain, Katharina von Loga, Ben Challoner, Radhika Patel, Michael Ranes, Amanda Swain, Janet Thomas, Annette Bryant, Claire Saffery, Nicos Fotiadis, Sebastian Guettler, David Mansfield, Alan Melcher, Thomas Powles, Sheela Rao, David Watkins, Ian Chau, Nik Matthews, Fredrik Wallberg, Naureen Starling, David Cunningham, Marco GerlingerGet full text
Published 2019-04-01
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