Here's David O'Dell's 2003 release, Banjo for a Rainy Day, featuring 18 tunes, all played on David's new Applachian five-string created by Alan Funk of White Swallow Banjos of Australia.

David also is featured on a number of other Fiddletunes CDs, such as "Reflection, s of the Past"

He also plays banjo on the only recording by the Cedar Point String Band, released in 1983.

Besides these, David also performs on "Midnight Ride," the debut album by fiddle prodigy Zack Fanok, and on Kanawha Tradition with Bobby Taylor.

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A native of Spencer in Roane County, W.Va., David O'Dell grew up playing old-time music for square dances. He recorded his first album, "The Cedar Point String Band," when he was 17, with two neighbors, fiddler Franklin George, who became his greatest influence, and the late Bob Roark on guitar. At that early age, David already had won three awards from competing in the old-time banjo contests at Charleston's Vandalia Gathering.

He lived temporarily in Knoxville, Tenn., while finishing his Ph.D. in soil science. While there, David played and sang music from the 1930s with some Knoxville-area friends and made one recording as "The New Roane County Ramblers." He moved back to West Virginia in 1996.

David's playing can be heard at most traditional festivals in the Mountain State and he actively promotes traditional music. Now living and teaching college in Logan, W.Va., David O'Dell operates this Web site, Fiddletunes.com, and produces outstanding recordings by noted traditional West Virginia musicians, past, present and future.

His smooth yet driving syle of clawhammer banjo has earned him several first place finishes at the Vandalia Gathering. He also is adept at fiddle, guitar and mountain dulcimer. In fact, he has won the state championship on dulcimer.

David has played at all major venues across the state and in the South and has taught at many important workshops, including Cedar Lakes, Augusta Heritage, and Allegheny Echoes. In addition to his musical talents, David is a film maker, traveling through Appalachia to preserve old-time music on film.