Born and raised in Bowie Maryland, a suburb of Washington D.C., David Goodrich (a.k.a. Goody) began playing music at the age of two on a drum set given to him by a neighbor. Picking up guitar in junior high, he spent his teenage afternoons jamming with friends and soon found himself in a variety of bands, gigging professionally in Annapolis and D.C. clubs before he was old enough to get into them. Earning a scholarship to Boston's Berklee School of Music in 1985, Goody moved to Boston, found himself studying with jazz greats Joe Henderson and Pat Metheny, and quickly began laying the foundation for his own innovative musical style. Fusing jazz and improvisation with folk and world music, Goody's approach to songwriting, playing and performing is based on years of listening and training, along with a carefully honed sense of intuition. Specializing in stringed instruments (acoustic, electric, Hawaiian, steel & slide guitars, mandolin, mandocaster) he has been an integral part of numerous jazz, rock, and acoustic ensembles over the past fifteen years.

As a member of the influential rock band Groovasaurus from 1991-1998, Goody and his bandmates helped define the resurgent Boston music scene of the '90s, receiving consecutive Boston Music Awards and Best of Boston accolades. In 1995 Goody began collaborating with old friend and ground-breaking singer/songwriter Peter Mulvey on Mulvey's studio projects Rapture and Deep Blue. When Groovasaurus called it quits after three CDs and eight wildly successful years, Goody teamed up with Mulvey, co-writing and producing his next two projects, Glencree (a live album, recorded while the duo were on tour in Ireland) and The Trouble with Poets (a studio album recorded in 2000). The pair also hit the road for a touring schedule that continues to see them playing more than a hundred shows a year in North America and Europe. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.