David Stephens' love affair with the banjo started while he was an college undergraduate. During a trip home for the weekend, he heard a scrawny, scraggly-haired banjo picker/songwriter from New Orleans, named Mike West, ripping through banjo solos and singing his own brand of bluegrass and folk music. One banjo lesson from West later, David Stephens began making life in the dorms a living hell while he practiced his banjo rolls and wrote songs. West later recorded and produced Stephens' solo albums: "Played By the Rules" (2001), "Family Album" (2002), "Far Cry" (2004) and "Postcards From Sadness" (2007).

In November of 2006, Stephens packed up his banjo (which Delta Airlines managed to smash up despite the protection of a fiberglass case) and relocated to the big city of New York. While there, he played with some of the hottest NYC bluegrass pickers. He wrote a bunch of songs, made some money playng in Central Park, puppeteered on Sesame Street (he can tell you how to get there) and finally decided NYC wasn't for him, though the music sure pulled strong for him to stay. He and his banjo are happy to be below the Mason-Dixon line once again.

Now home-basing in Atlanta, GA, he and bassist Will Robertson have teamed up as Banjolicious and can be found playing around the metro-Atlanta area. In 2009, Robertson produced two more Stephens albums: "Sunday Best," a collection or original and traditional gospel songs, and "A Year And Some Change," songs that Stephens wrote while living in New York.

Over the course of his carreer as a banjo player, he's opened for such acts as The Kingston Trio and Danny Barnes, one of Stephens' banjo heroes. He's played bars and coffee houses in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, New York, Connecticut, Kansas, and probably a few more states here and there.

In 2008, he worked with legendary singer/songwriter Paul Williams ("Rainbow Connection"), who described Stephens' music: "Like mail from home when you've been too long on the road"

Come on and get tickled by a banjo!

Discography:

"Sunday Best," David Stephens (2009)
"A Year And Some Change," (2009)
"Silver Scream Spook Show" (2009)
"Truro Daydreams," Jerry Nelson (2009)
"You Can't Rock Sittin' Down," The Mighty Weaklings (2008);
"Rocketship Run," Laurie Berkner (2008);
"Poison On Your Mind," Copper Kettle (2008);
"Two Flowers," Danielle Sansone (2008);
"Christmas in My Hometown," Fretted Instruments (2007);
"Bluegrass Trash," Fat Man Squeeze (2007);
"Postcards From Sadness," (2007)
"The Memory of Your Company," Arlington Priest (2006);
"Til I Reach the Light," Blake Guthrie (2005);
"Authentic Bluegrass Gibberish," Fat Man Squeeze (2004);
"Brian Meece," Brian Meece (2003);
"The Man Who Could Fall Backwards," Mike West (2003);
"Far Cry," David Stephens (2002)
*Family Album," David Stephens (2002)
"Played By the Rules," David Stephens (2001)
"Excusez Moi," The Hot Tamales (2001)