Artist · chart history · #338 in indie & aaa artist polls
David Bromberg
Solo artist Philadelphia United States American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter
David Bromberg is an artist from Philadelphia. David Bromberg has 4 chart appearances on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2020. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “New Lee Highway Blues”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #83. The station that charted David Bromberg most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
David Bromberg, born in 1945 and out of Philadelphia, is one of those players who can pick up anything with strings and make it talk: guitar, fiddle, dobro, mandolin. He learned his fingerpicking from the Reverend Gary Davis, and he has a party trick worth the price of admission, covering both the rhythm part and the lead line on one guitar at once.
He has played and recorded with a who's who, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Willie Nelson, Richie Havens, Jerry Jeff Walker and Jorma Kaukonen among them, but his own records are the real treat. They romp all over the map, bluegrass, blues, folk, country and jazz all run through a rock and roll engine, and his songs come loaded with droll, oddball humor. His self-titled 1972 album found George Harrison sitting in, and the two of them wrote "The Holdup" together. Demon in Disguise, that same year on Columbia, brought "Sharon", and "New Lee Highway Blues" is the tune the countdowns remember.
He also records with the David Bromberg Band, and he's stayed in the game: he earned a Grammy nomination in 2008.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by David Bromberg on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Lee Highway Blues | 1 | #83 | – | – | |
| 2 | Sharon | 1 | #872 | – | – | |
| 3 | Big Road | 1 | #80 | – | 2020 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 80 | Big Road | WEXT Top 97 of 2020 |
| 2020 | 872 | Sharon | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time |
| 2010 | 83 | New Lee Highway Blues | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) |
| 2006 | 341 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
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