David Essig may have started out over fifty years ago as a hired-gun blues guitarist and mandolin player from rural Ontario, but today he’s best known as one of Canada’s most enduring and literate musical storytellers - a roots songwriter with a difference. With his authentic voice that bridges the blues and country traditions, David performs his original, guitar-driven songs with the narrative precision of a fiction author - which, in fact, he is. David’s recent live album comes from a solo concert in 2018 at the historic Queens Hotel in Dunnville, Ontario. The album contains 14 songs, including 12 of David's originals - from classics like High Ground, to recent songs like Motel as Metaphor.