Dave Hole is an Australian slide guitarist well known for his rock & roll and blues music. Moved by a school friend's Muddy Waters blues album David started to teach himself guitar, influenced by Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson. He continued to teach himself, with the albums of Robert Johnson (musician), Elmore James, and Mississippi Fred McDowell serving as models. A freak football accident forced him to play the guitar right-handed by putting the slide on his index finger. Though he was left-handed the habit stuck.
He hit the music scene in 1972 touring the Western Australian pub circuit for twenty years. In 1990 he self-financed and released Short Fuse Blues, a tape he recorded with his band Short Fuse in three days in 1990. A copy sent to Guitar Player magazine in the U.S saw him being compared to guitar greats as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King. This prompted Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer to sign him up as the first non U.S. based artist of their 26-year history. Critics, reviews followed which brought him into increased mainstream focus. He has fronted festival shows in Germany, Denmark, Holland, France and Switzerland .