| David Joyner Guitar Lead, Baritone & Bass Vocals Band Leader |
| David was born in Portsmouth, VA and raised in the Deep Creek area of Chesapeake, VA. David's music career began at the early age of 7. He took piano lessons for four years and disliked it! At age 12, he received his first Epiphone guitar. His Uncle Jimmy Barnes, who David loved dearly taught him his first song on the guitar. He played trumpet, tuba and the sousaphone in the junior high & high school marching and concert band. At age 14, he took a serious interest in country, bluegrass and gospel music. He sang in a teenage gospel quartet called The Watchmen. David's mom and dad raised him on the pew at gospel sings. As the quartets would sing, David would hold his hand to his ear and try to harmonize with the singers. The Chord Masters Quartet from Manassas, VA would park their bus at his parents home, practice in their living room and allow David to sing with them at their performances. This stirred a singing passion in him for many years to come. As a young adult David one lined as an entertainer in restaurants, sang at weddings and began to further his career in music. At age 20, he met Buddy Shaw and Bobby Frame, they played music together for the next 20 years as Uncut Grass. David met Jeff Collins in 1983 and they became life long friends. While He and Jeff continued with Buddy Shaw as the band, Cut n Up, David and Jeff began to branch out in their individual careers but maintained contact with each other. David met a mountain girl named Susan and two weeks after he met her, he told her he was going to marry her. Susan laughed and said "Marry me, you don't even know me!" David had the last laugh. Susan, his wife handles all the promotional material, photography and is the web master for Thunder Creek. David is father to his wonderful daughter Maria and she has given David two high spirited grandsons who are loving bluegrass music. David is self-employed and is a Class A general contractor in the State of Virginia. Through his years of music, David has had the opportunity to personally meet and be influenced by many great people in the Gospel & Bluegrass industries such as Buck, Dottie & Reba Rambo, Brock & Ben Spears, Ivan Parker, Squire Parsons, Doyle Lawson, Tony Rice, Jamie Daily & Russell Moore. Then in November 2003, David and Jeff decided to form another bluegrass band resulting after a Gospel sing at Mill Swamp Baptist Church. At one of their first practices they decided the band should be called Thunder Creek, Thunder for the voice of God and Creek for bluegrass. It has been David's life long desire to serve and glorify the Lord with the talents that the Lord Jesus Christ has blessed him with. I Peter 4:10 &11 |
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