Question: David Long's style of playing was influenced by the musician of what nationality?

Context articles: Quality Assurance Journal
Sector 41
Curly Seckler
David Long (mandolin player)
Lucky Stars (album)
John David Long
Walter Long, 2nd Viscount Long
Chris Gough
David Long (New Zealand musician)
Mark Austin (composer)

The Quality Assurance Journal was a quarterly peer-reviewed healthcare journal published by John Wiley & Sons.
 It covered quality assurance issues relating to the healthcare and environmental industries.
 It was established in 1997 and ceased publication at the end of 2011.
 The founding editor-in-chief was David Long and the last editors were Rita Hattemer-Apostel and Anthony B. Jones.
Sector 41 is a board game published by David Long and Michael Lachtanski of Scimitar Games.
 The game became available for pre-order in February 2009 and was officially released in April 2009.
John Ray Sechler, known as Curly Seckler, (born December 25, 1919), is an American bluegrass musician.
David Long is a mandolin player from Nashville, Tennessee.
 He was born in the winter of 1975.
 Long has been described as a next generation musician with traditional sounds of bluegrass.
 Long's music career started in 1996.
 He plays Rural Country Blues, Old Time Bluegrass,and Early Black String Band.
 David’s style of playing was influenced by Curly Seckler.
 David has played with the Wildwood Valley Boys for about two years, and with Karl Shiflett and his Big Show.
 Famously used explicit language on the stage of the World Famous Station Inn.
 This act merely brings the new generation to old time music ad infinitum.
Lucky Stars is the third solo album by New Zealand musician Don McGlashan.
 It was released in 2015.
 McGlashan began writing songs for the album at a small beach house on the Thames Estuary, then moved to Neil Finn's writing room at Roundhead Studios in Auckland to begin recording them with guitarist Tom Rodwell.
 The pair were joined by former Mutton Birds guitarist David Long and former Seven Sisters member and current Phoenix Foundation drummer Chris O'Connor.
John David Long (1901–1967) was a Union County, South Carolina politician and state senator.
 John D. Long Lake is named for him.
Walter Francis David Long, 2nd Viscount Long (14 September 1911 – 23 September 1944), was a British peer and soldier.
Chris Gough is the managing director of Mana Music and Native Tongue, a music publishing company with offices in Australia and New Zealand.
 Writers signed to Native Tongue include Don McGlashan, David Long and Philip Judd.
David Long is a musician, composer and producer.
 He has worked on all of Peter Jackson’s films of the last decade.
Mark Austin (born 1958) is a New Zealand composer and musical director who has written scores for many films, television programmes and commercials.
 Much of his work has received critical acclaim.
 Besides writing alone, he has collaborated with David Long, Don McGlashan and Neill Duncan, among others.
 He has also worked in dance and theatre and was particularly active in this area in Auckland in the 1990s, where he was involved in several productions at the now defunct Watershed Theatre.
 (A notable example is Braindead the Musical, on which he collaborated with Neill Duncan as co-composer and Musical Director in 1995, the libretto having been written by Fran Walsh and Stephen Sinclair, with props created by Weta Workshop and the production directed by Michael Hurst.)
 With David Long, Austin has collaborated with dance choreographers Douglas Wright, Ann Dewey, Daniel Belton, and Mary Jane O’Reilly, and, on his own, with Josie Thompson.
 In 2002 he moved to his home town of Wellington (where he was well known in the early 1980s as leader of The Tin Syndrome (band)).
 He continues to write soundtracks, in between commissions and other projects.