Editing David Mansfield

{{short description|American musician and composer (born 1956)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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{{BLP sources|date=November 2011}}{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = David Mansfield
| birth_date        = {{bda|1956|9|13}}
| occupation        = Musician, composer
| instrument        = Violin, guitar, mandolin
| years_active      = 1974–present
| associated_acts   = [[Bob Dylan]], [[The Alpha Band]], [[Bruce Hornsby and the Range]], [[Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends]]
}}

'''David Mansfield''' (born September 13, 1956)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/98/David-Mansfield.html|title=David Mansfield Biography (1956-)|website=Filmreference.com|access-date=May 12, 2021}}</ref> is an American musician and composer.

Mansfield was raised in [[Leonia, New Jersey]]. His father, Newton Mansfield was a first violinist in the [[New York Philharmonic]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nyphil.org/about-us/artists/newton-mansfield|title=Newton Mansfield, Violin|website=nyphil.org|access-date=2019-03-14}}</ref> David played guitar, pedal steel guitar and fiddle in his first band, called [[Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends]], which also included two sons of [[Tony Bennett]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/quacky-duck-a-hot-new-group-from-the-suburbs-vol-2-no-2/|title=Quacky Duck—a Hot New Group from the Suburbs|website=People.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-14}}</ref>

[[Bob Dylan]] asked Mansfield to tour with him on his 1975 [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] tour; he remained in Dylan's band through their 1978 world tour.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/11/bob-dylan-classic-article|title=Bob Dylan finds God – a classic article from the vaults|last=Turner|first=Steve|date=2012-09-11|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=2019-03-14|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

After the Revue ended in 1976, Mansfield and two other members of Dylan's band, [[T-Bone Burnett]] and [[Steven Soles]], formed [[The Alpha Band]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/alpha-band-mn0000754556/biography|title=Alpha Band {{!}} Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|language=en-us|access-date=2019-03-14}}</ref> The band released three albums, ''[[The Alpha Band (album)|The Alpha Band]]'' in 1977, ''[[Spark in the Dark]]'' in 1977, and ''[[The Statue Makers of Hollywood]]'' in 1978.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/alpha-band-mn0000754556/discography|title=Alpha Band {{!}} Album Discography|website=[[AllMusic]]|language=en-us|access-date=2019-03-14}}</ref> While Mansfield in 1978 was working on the album, ''The Statue Makers of Hollywood'' with The Alpha Band, he appeared as a guitarist on ''[[Desire Wire (Cindy Bullens album)|Desire Wire]]'' by a struggling pop/rock artist [[Cindy Bullens]] that same year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/desire-wire-mw0000840492/credits|title=Desire Wire - Cindy Bullens {{!}} Credits|website=[[AllMusic]]|language=en-us|access-date=2019-03-14}}</ref>

In 1986, Mansfield was an initial member of [[Bruce Hornsby|Bruce Hornsby and the Range]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bruuuce.com/bruce-hornsby-band/david-mansfield/|title=David Mansfield interview 2001|website=Bruuuce.com|date=July 23, 2011 }}</ref> including playing the title instrument on the hit "[[Mandolin Rain]]".  However, he left the Range before their first tour.

Since The Alpha Band broke up, Mansfield has continued to work as a musician in sessions for Dylan, Burnett, [[Johnny Cash]], [[Nanci Griffith]], [[Roger McGuinn]], [[Sam Phillips (singer)|Sam Phillips]], [[Mark Heard]], [[The Roches]], [[Edie Brickell]], [[Spinal Tap (band)|Spinal Tap]], [[Lucinda Williams]], [[Dwight Yoakam]], [[Victoria Williams]], [[Loudon Wainwright III]], [[If I Was a River (album)|Willie Nile]], [[Chris Hillman]] and [[Herb Pedersen]] and others.

Mansfield composed the music for the 1980 film ''[[Heaven's Gate (movie)|Heaven's Gate]]'' – he appeared in the movie, playing the fiddle on [[roller skates]] – and has since gone on to write scores for a number of other films, including others directed by ''Heaven's Gate's'' [[Michael Cimino]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Heaven's Gate (1980) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855/fullcredits|access-date=2019-03-14}}</ref>  Mansfield cobbled together the soundtrack album for ''[[Songcatcher]]''.<ref>{{Citation|title=Songcatcher (2000) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210299/fullcredits|access-date=2019-03-14}}</ref> He also composed the music for the soundtrack to ''[[The Ballad of Little Jo]]'' (1993), a movie written and directed by [[Maggie Greenwald]], whom he married in 1994.<ref>{{Citation|title=The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106350/fullcredits|access-date=2019-03-14}}</ref> Together they adopted two children. Maisie Mansfield-Greenwald (1997) and Lulu Mansfield-Greenwald (2000). He also composed the score with [[Van Dyke Parks]] for [[Walter Hill (director)|Walter Hill]]'s ''[[Broken Trail]]'' (2006), and they were nominated for a [[Primetime Emmy Award]] for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score).<ref>{{Citation|title=Broken Trail (TV Mini-Series 2006– ) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482857/fullcredits|access-date=2019-03-14}}</ref>

==Filmography==
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*1980	''[[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heaven's Gate]]''
*1985	''[[Year of the Dragon (film)|Year of the Dragon]]''
*1986	''[[Club Paradise]]''
*1987	''[[The Sicilian (film)|The Sicilian]]''
*1989	''[[Miss Firecracker]]''
*1990	''[[Desperate Hours]]''
*1991	''[[Late for Dinner]]''
*1992   ''[[Me and Veronica]]''
*1993	''[[The Ballad of Little Jo]]''
*1995   ''[[Outlaws: The Legend of O.B. Taggart]]''
*1996   ''[[Deep Crimson]]''
*1997   ''[[Floating (film)|Floating]]''
*1997   ''[[Road Ends (film)|Road Ends]]''
*1997	''[[The Apostle]]''
*1998   ''[[El evangelio de las maravillas]]''
*1998	''[[Dark Harbor]]''
*1999	''[[Tumbleweeds (1999 film)|Tumbleweeds]]''
*1999   ''[[No One Writes to the Colonel (film)|No One Writes to the Colonel]]''
*2000   ''[[Such Is Life (2000 film)|Such Is Life]]''
*2000   ''[[Ropewalk (film)|Ropewalk]]''
*2000	''[[A Good Baby]]''
*2000	''[[Songcatcher]]''
*2002	''[[Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (film)|Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood]]''
*2003   ''[[Flora's Garment Bursting Into Bloom]]''
*2005	''[[Transamerica (film)|Transamerica]]''
*2006	''[[Stephanie Daley]]''
*2006	''[[Diggers (2006 film)|Diggers]]''
*2006   ''[[El carnaval de Sodoma]]''
*2007	''[[Then She Found Me]]''
*2008	''[[The Guitar (film)|The Guitar]]''
*2011	''[[Certainty (film)|Certainty]]''
*2011   ''[[The Reasons of the Heart]]''
*2013	''[[The Last Keepers]]''
*2016   ''[[Sophie and the Rising Sun (film)|Sophie and the Rising Sun]]''
*2019   ''[[Devil Between the Legs]]''
*2023	''[[Killers of the Flower Moon (film)|Killers of the Flower Moon]]''

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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.david-mansfield.com/bio.html David Mansfield Official Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203164923/http://david-mansfield.com/bio.html |date=February 3, 2015 }}
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