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David Lynn Grimes, co-founder of the Coastal Coalition, is a musician, storyteller, river guide and former commercial fisherman from Cordova, Alaska.

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Greetings, and well, let's see—I'm an Alaskan bard, musician, storyteller, mariner, environmental activist, wilderness guide, former commercial fisherman and wandering fool. I have howled with wolves, run from bears and co-habitated with killer whales.

Following the 1989 Good Friday Exxon Valdez oil spill (epicentered in my home waters of Prince William Sound at the northern end of America's coastal temperate rainforest), I have been one of the artist/activists working and playing to help protect and restore wild ecosystems such as the Sound and the Copper River and Delta–which seem to me to be beautiful earth organs that are fundamental to our health. I've spent a lot of time living on rivers, and on boats in the ocean, and a lot of time around rain. Water and I go way back.

My songs are on a musical axis between Ireland and Brasil, with American folk, jazz, hillbilly and blues influences. Frequent themes are those of sacrifice and resurrection, and the pervading presence of the Trickster Fool — who appears in many cultures in the guise of Raven, Coyote, Br'er Rabbit, Reynard the Fox, Tanuki the Raccoon Dog or High John de Conquer, and is able, in the words of Zora Neale Hurston, to "make a way out of no way and hit a straight lick with a crooked stick." Or as Coyote Caroline Casey says, "Against all odds is the odds the Trickster likes." Leaping out of winter into spring, the Trickster Fool bridges the sacred and profane, making art out of drama and humor out of adversity. This is the powerful magic that shows up in dangerous times, the secret of our song and laughter, the blossoming of egalitarian culture.

I'm an adopted member of the Eyak Indian tribe. My dear rascal friend Marie Smith Jones-honorary chief and last speaker of the Eyak language—died January 21, 2008 at the age of 89. Marie believed her language wouldn't truly go extinct when she passed away since "the language comes from the land, and as long as the land and water and creatures are alive, the people will learn the language of the land." In 1994 I was adopted into the Eyak tribe's Eagle moiety, but I'm pretty sure I'm actually a Raven disguised as an Eagle. Chief Marie gave me my Eyak name, YaxadiliSayaxinh—which translates as "The Thinker", or more literally, "He who causes his mind to involuntarily roam in an indeterminate direction." Whew.

Now and again I write, and my essays have appeared in a number of anthologies including Ascent, Prarie Schooner and From the Island's Edge.

In the realm of film, I co-produced the 1989 citizen's oil spill video, Voices of the Sound, and as a wildlife film guide I've worked with National Geographic, Survival Anglia, the BBC, the Sierra Club and the Cousteau Society on films concerning killer whales, sea otters, wild habitat protection, and the oil spill.

I've participated in projects in Alaska, Spain and Israel with the wonderful Artists for Nature Foundation--a group home-based in the Netherlands that organizes wildlife and nature artists from around the world to visit threatened natural ecosystems—and by using art as a universal language, help remind and empower local decision makers with the importance of beauty and natural diversity in the health of our world.

My escapades, larks, adventures and foibles have been reported on in a number of books including John Keeble's Out of the Channel, Art Davidson's In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez and Grant Sim's Leaving Alaska, as well as in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Audubon, Outside, the Amicus Journal and Sierra.

I currently have two CDs of music--Raven River and Raised on Rabbit. And I'm writing a book tentatively entitled Escapades, Larks and Adventures: being Tales of Human Redemption through Synchronistic Reconnection with the Rest of the Creation.

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David visited Whole Wheat on July 17th, 2008:

David Lynn Grimes - Whole Wheat Radio Interviews - 01 - Live On Whole Wheat Radio - Interview.mp3

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• Raven River

• Raised On Rabbit

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Song	Album	Length	Played	Overall	You	Tags	Single Request
Sowin' On The Mountain	Raven River	4:49	27	7 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.	Guy with guitar / Acoustic guitar / Woody guthrie / Traditional
Johnny Redux	Raven River	2:44	21	11 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.	Guy with guitar / Acoustic guitar / James taylor / Soldiers / War / Fiddle
Somethin' Good	Raised On Rabbit	5:11	1	2 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.	Solo vocalist / Acoustic guitar / Piano / Jazzy
	Total Time	12:44

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• Songs on WWR: 30
• Total plays: 476
• Total requests: 188
• Total listens: 9823
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