David Ledgerwood
David Ledgerwood was born in 1957 in Bluefield (W.Va.). As a child, he quickly found music to be one of his favorite pursuits (shame it wasn’t academics), his father giving him an acoustic guitar when he was 9 years old. “As a child, the air around me was soaked with diverse and creative music; rock, soul, funk, folk, and I loved it all. I sang myself to sleep many nights, keeping a transistor radio by my pillow.” Focusing more on electric guitar in his youth and then on acoustic guitar in his 30’s and 40’s, he has learned to travel and enjoy ‘both lanes’ of the guitar highway. Now well into his 60’s, David shares his love of music with his cherished wife (Ann), performing acoustically as a duet and also in leading the “Ledgerwood Blues Band”, playing every 4th Friday at Sweetbay Brewing Company in Abingdon, Va. “Joining our local ‘Songwriter’s of Highlands Appalachia’ writers group has encouraged me to develop my songwriting skills and offer a part of who I am to others, packaged in a song… what a great blessing.” David and Ann live in Glade Spring along with their pet family: Duke, Dolly, Spanky, Rocky, Stevie Ray, Eddie Van, Ruthie Grace, Bootsy, Franky, and Alfie (did I leave anyone out). 🙂