“…one of the most gifted acoustic musicians on the planet” Blues Blast Magazine.
Ambassador of the Blues Guy Davis is a two time, back-to-back Grammy nominee, a recipient of the Blues Foundation’s, Keeping the Blues Alive Award in Theatre, and has over two dozen Blues Music Award nominations for Best Acoustic Blues Artist, Best Song, and Best Acoustic Album of the Year. He has recently added Broadway Composer to his resume, scoring the incidental music for the revival of his late father Ossie Davis’ play, Purlie Victorious.
Davis has had his musical storytelling influenced by artists like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy, and his musicality from artists as diverse as Lightnin’ Hopkins and Babatunde Olatunji, and harmonica techniques from most notably, Sonny Terry.
His latest album is The Legend of Sugarbelly, a follow-up to Be Ready When I Call You, which like the album before it, Sonny & Brownie’s Last Train – A Look Back at Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, it were both nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. The Legend of Sugarbelly gets some of it’s songs from a play that Guy has been developing, and features the emotionally charged song, Early In the Morning, written during the darkest days of Covid.
Guy has released fifteen albums and has appeared on dozens of tribute albums and compilations. His career has included work as a Broadway, film, and television actor, Off Broadway lead, author, music teacher, children’s performer, and of course Americana Blues artist.
“…a superb songwriter whose lyrics evoke the storytelling poetic tradition of the blues” The Country Blues Magazine
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