Sweetheart Like You
Davis Guy
Sweetheart Like You
Davis Guy
Guy Davis comes from a show-biz family. He is the son of the late actor Ossie Davis and actress Ruby Dee, though he decided to go into roots music instead of the theater as his parents had done. He plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, and harmonica. “Sweetheart Like You” is a good example of what a contemporary “traditional blues” album can be, expansive new interpretations of old songs and classics of the blues genre, and excellent new compositions. This album includes the Muddy waters classic “Can’t Be Satisfied” played on the banjo, and a compelling new song “Words To My Mama’s Song” on which Davis’s son Martial Davis joins in with vocal percussion and rap.
Disc 1:
- Sweetheart Like You
- Slow Motion Daddy
- Follow Me Down
- Sweet Hannah
- Bring Back Storyville
- Words To My Mama’s Song
- Down South Blues
- Hoochie Coochie Man
- Steamboat Captain
- Can’t Be Satisfied
- Baby Please Don’t Go
- Angels Are Calling
- Goin Back To Silver Spring
- Ain’t Goin’ Down
Review
Paul Barr, Readings Carlton
Davis’s sixth album for leading roots label Redhouse is an extremely enjoyable and varied collection of six originals and inspired covers from the likes of Leadbelly, Son House, Willie Dixon, Big Joe Williams and Bob Dylan. Davis is a fine singer and accomplished on harmonica, banjo, mandolin, six- and twelve-string and bottleneck guitar.
He has become a leading exponent of American acoustic country blues with occasional forays into ragtime and jugband music. Throughout the album, it’s the powerful pulse of Davis’s acoustic finger-picking that drives things along, whether it’s within the context of a small band setting or a solo acoustic setting like the twelve-string guitar on a version of Leadbelly’s field holler Ain’t Going Down or the gentle and whimsical Steamboat Captain, with its beautiful guitar picking .
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