"Guy Davis….a terrific Piedmont blues picker,
Davis
never loses sight of the blues as good time
music,
the original forum for dancing on top of
one's
sorrows."
--Dave Marsh, Rock Rap
Online
New for 2013!
Juba dance
1) Lost again
2) My eyes keep me in trouble
3) Love looks good on you
4) Some cold rainy day
5) See that my grave is kept clean
6) Dance juba dance
7) Black coffee
8) Did you see my baby
9) Satisfied
10) That's no way to get along
11) Saturday blues
12) Prodigal son
13) Statesboro blues
Discography
**You will need the Real
Audio player to be installed on your computer in order to listen to sound clips. If you
don't have the Real Audio player, you can download it for free here.**
Click on any of the
highlighted (ie. blue lettered) song titles to hear a brief clip of
that song.
Guy's CDs can be
purchased below using the PayPal shopping cart. Each cd sells for
$15.00, with the exception of Guy Davis on Air, an import which is
$20.00. The shipping charge is $3.00 for US destined orders, and $7 each for Canada/overseas orders.
We are excited to announce the release of Guy's 2 CD set, an audio, books-on-tape type version of his acclaimed one-man play. This is his first CD release since 2009's "Sweetheart Like You". This is also Guy's first self-released recording project since his first CD in 1995, "Live", which ultimately was repackaged and became his first recording for Red House Records, "Stomp Down Rider".
Here's your chance to own this amazing collection of Guy's stories and songs performed by his character, "Fishy Waters".
ORDER NOW!!
The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed
with the Blues
DISC 1
1) Musical Introduction
2) Ramblin' All Over
3) Railroad Story
4) What's It Like Bein' a Hobo
5) Miss Ripley's Catfish Stew
6) Candy Man
7) The Drunken Silkworm
8) Fly Took Stockings
9) Madison & the Pigs
10) The Farmer & His Eight Sons
11) Black Man's Blues
12) The Lynching
13) Black Man’s Blues pt. 2
14) Black Man Dancing
15) Fast Runner
16) Georgia Rag
17) The One-Legged Grave Robber
18) Close-out Side one music
DISC 2
19) The Story of Fishy Waters / Nobody
Knows the Trouble On My Mind
20) Teacup of Salt
21) Juno Dies / Nobody Knows the Trouble On My Mind
22) Fishy Leaves Home
23) Walkin' Blues
24) Fishy Meets Hobos
25) Good Liquor's Gonna Carry Me Down
26) Meeting Crazy Cat / Going to Nashville
27) Two Drunk Hobos
28) Tchula Buck by Campfire
29) Watch Over Me
30) Hobos Wake Up and Catch Train
31) Closing Tune
Guy Davis
Sweetheart Like You, 2009 Red
House Records, Inc..
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
Steamboats Coming
Can't Be Satisfied
Baby Please Don't Go
Angels Are Calling
Goin' Back To Silver
Spring
Ain't Goin' Down
The album hit the Number 1 position for the month of February on the
Folk Charts, Number 18 for three weeks on the Americana Charts, and
Number 10 on the European Version of the Americana Charts in
Europe.
Guy Davis On Air, 2007 Tradition
& Moderne GmbH in association with Radio Bremen.
Drop Down Mama
When You've Got a Good
Friend
Waitin' On The Cards To
Fall
Train Story
Driftin Blues
Good Liquor Gonna Carry
Me Down
Sweetheart Like You
Back Door Man
Dust My Broom
Loneliest Road That I
Know
Limetown
Step It Up And Go
Saturday Blues
Joppatown
This
is a live recording done in
Breman, Germany as a Trio with Mark Murphy on bass and Nerek
Roth Patterson on
electric guitar.
Stomp Down Rider Variation
(Ft. Worth & Dallas Blues/Stomp Down Rider)
Intro
Watch Over Me
Intro
Walkin' Blues
Intro
Take Me Back, Babe
Ramblin' All Over
“Stomp Down Rider” made it onto many Top 10 Album of the Year lists
including the "Boston Globe" and “Pulse” magazines.
DVD - $ 25.00
US Shipping - $4
Shipping to Canada and eslewhere - $7
Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop & Vestapol Videos is proud to present:
The Guitar Artistry of Guy Davis
on DVD
The Guitar Artistry series present the finest of today's fingerstyle guitarists. On his brand new video Guy performs a wide variety of tunes from his repertoire as well as discussing influences on his playing, creativity and songs. Note that this is not an instructional video, though guitars and singers can certainly pick up tips by watching Guy in action.
Think of this video as a way of taking Guy home with you, and having him perform in your living room, or wherever you watch TV.
Titles include: Going Back To Silversprings, Honeybabe, Things About Coming My Way, Come On Sally Hitch A Ride, Tell Me Where The Road Is, As Long As You Get It Done, Honeydew Melon Rag, Saturday Blues, Hooking Bull at the Landing, Georgia Flood, Joppatown, Bring Back Storyville, Watch Over Me and If You Love Somebody
CD and Accompanying Storybook - $ 20.00
Down At The Sea, 2007
The Secret Mountain.
Down at the Sea Hotel
(Guy Davis, John
Gorka, Eliza Gilkyson, Lucy Kaplansky, Lynn Miles, The Wailin' Jennys)
Midnight Lullaby
(Guy Davis)
Dreamland
(Lucy Kaplansky)
Barefoot Floors
(The Wailin' Jennys)
Midnight in Missoula
(Eliza Gilkyson)
Do La Lay
(John Gorka)
Little Seahorses
(Lynn Miles)
Goodnight My Angel
(Lucy Kaplansky)
Annabel
(Guy Davis)
Trick Rider
(The Wailin' Jennys)
Everybody Cries
(Lynn Miles)
Child of Mine
(Eliza Gilkyson)
Things We've Handed Down
(John Gorka)
Nothing But a Child
(Guy Davis, John
Gorka, Eliza Gilkyson, Lucy Kaplansky, Lynn Miles, The
Wailin' Jennys)
A part of the proceeds from the sale for this album will be donated
to the Breast Cancer Fund.
Guy Davis - Live, 1993 Recorded live in concert, The Music Hall
This
album was self-released and later was re-packaged and
edited to become the Red House Records release,
"Stomp Down Rider". It is no longer
available and a true 'collector's item as only 1,000 CDs
and 500 cassettes were pressed.
Cassette Track Listings
1) Tight Like That
2) If I had Possession Over Judgement Day
3) Wintertime Blues
4) Georgia Rag
5) Candy Man
6) Madison & the Pigs
7) Stomp Down Rider Variation
8)
Watch Over Me
9) Walkin' Blues
10) Take Me Back
CD Track Listings
1) Dust My Broom
2) Tight Like That
3) If I had Possession ver Judgement Day
4) Wintertime Blues
5) Georgia Rag
6) Candy Man
7) Georgia Buck
8)
Madison & The Pigs
9) Stomp Down Rider Variation
10) Watch Over Me
11) Walkin' Blues
12) Take Me Back
13) Ramblin' All Over
Check out this
website on teaching tolerance to children. Guy's song is the title track to the CD for this
fabulous campaign. You may have seen Alanis Morrisette’s Public
Service Announcements about Teaching Tolerance on TV? Your child’s
school can request a FREE COPY by contacting the Southern Poverty Law
Center.
(Click on icon below to visit the tolerance.org website.)
Guy Also Appears on the Following
Artists' CDs and Compilations
A Nod To Bob 2
Red House Records 2011
Guy's Track: House of the Rising Sun
Other Artists: Robin & Linda Williams, Hot Tuna, The Pines, Storyhill, etc.
Spirit and Freedom
Sultra Sound Records 2010
Other Artists Include: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Flaco Jimenez, Garth Hudson of "The Band",
Charlie Musselwhite, and Eric Bibb
Guy's Tracks:
Stayed on Freedom (also featuring Augie Meyers)
Glory, Glory (also with Augie Meyers and Donnie Price)
Red House @ 25 Red House Records 2008
Guy's
Tracks: "Best I Can" - from "You Don't Know My Mind"
and "Sho 'Nuff Satisfied" - from "Chocolate to the Bone"
Other Artists Include:
Loudon Wainwright III,
Lynn Miles, The Wailin’ Jennys,
Jimmy LaFave,
Eliza Gilkyson,
Martin Simpson,
Adrian Legg and
Jorma Kaukonen
These Times We're Living In:
A Red House Anthology
Red House Records 2005
Guy's Track: "We All Need More Kindness In This World" - from
"Legacy"
Other Artists Include: The Wailin' Jennys, Jimmy LaFave, Ray
Bonneville, David Francey, Bill Staines
Friends by Eric Bibb
Telarc 2004
Guy's track: "99½ Won't Do" - recorded for project
Other Artists Include: Odetta, Mamadou
Diabate, Djelimady Toukara
At This Stage: 30 Years at the Wheatland Music
Festival Wtene Music 2004
Guy's track: "Home-Cooked Meal" - recorded live for project
Other Artists Include: The Mammals, Robin & Linda
Williams and their Fine Group, Johnny Gimble and Texas Swing, Tim & Mollie O'Brien with Jerry Douglas, Dewey Balfa, Dixie Hummingbirds
Sing Along With Putumayo Putumayo World
Music 2004
Guy's track:
"I Will Be Your Friend" - recorded for project
Other Artists Include: Rhonda Vincent, Rufus
Thomas, Rosie Flores, Dan Zanes and Friends
Mali to Memphis - An African American OdysseyPutumayo Records 1999
Guy's track: "You
Don't Know My Mind" - from album
Other Artists Include: Habib Koite, John Lee Hooker, Rokia Traore,
Muddy Waters
Where Have All the Flowers Gone - The Songs
of Pete Seeger
Appleseed Recordings 1998
Guy's track: "False
From True" - recorded for project
Other Artists Include: Ani DiFranco, Bruce Springsteen, Indigo
Girls, Bonnie Raitt
Root Awakening - An Ear-Opening Roots Music
Sampler
Red House Records 1998
Guy's track: "Best I Can" - from "You Don't Know My
Mind"
Other Artists Include: Spider John Koerner, Dave Alvin,
Martin Simpson, Hart-Rouge
Habits of the Heart
Acoustic Artists Series (Acoustic Guitar Magazine) 1998
Guy's track:
"If You Love Somebody" - from "You
Don't Know My Mind"
Other Artists Include: Dan Bern, Laura Love, Merle
Travis, Chris Whiteley, Jim Croce
House On Fire (Volume 2) - An
Urban Folk Collection
Red House Records 1997
Guy's track: "Long Train" - from "Call Down
the Thunder"
Other Artists Include: Greg Brown, Lucy Kaplansky, Archie Fisher, Jack Elliott
Voices: A Contemporary Choral
Collection
Windham Hill Records 1996
Guy's track: "Interlude #2 (Grass Roots)"
- Recorded for project
Other Artists Include: The
Northwest Girl's Choir, The St. Olaf Choir, The Moses
Hogan Chorale, The Philadelphia
Chamber Ensemble
Greenwich
Village Folk Festival 1989 - 1990
Gadfly Records 1991
Guy's track: "Walking Blues" (live)
Other Artists Include: Dave
Van Ronk, Cliff Eberhardt,
Tom Paxton, Frank
Christian
Cover drawn by Andy Breckman (creator of the hit TV series, "Monk").
Guy's Songs Performed by
Others Appear on the
Following CDs and
Compilations
We Are The Boat Pomfret (CT)
Community School Students Sing for the Students Caught in Hurricane
Katrina Independent Music Distribution 2006 Guy's Track: The 2nd grade recorded Guy's song - "I
Will Be Your Friend"
If You're Not Goin' Far Kentucky T. Dutchersmith
and the Rubber Band Independent Music Distribution 2006
Guy's Track: "We All Need
More Kindness In This World"
Bakelite Radio Volume
III
Head Records (Australia) 2005
The Bakelite Boys
Cover of Guy's Song: Sugarbelle
Blue
Guy
Also Appears on the
Following Videos, Films &
Television Shows
Bill Wyman's Blues
Odyssey Umbrella Entertainment
Video 2002
Guy's role: "Performer"
Other Artists: Bill
Wyman, B.B. King, Sam Phillips, Buddy Guy, Taj Majal, Mick
Fleetwood and others.
Final Trimark Home Video
2001
Guy's role:
"Bluesman"
Campbell Scott directs this psychological movie starring Dennis
Leary and Hope Davis.
Guy's song, "Watch Over
Me" is used in the ending
credit role. Guy put all
his acting abilities to
the test by portraying a
bluesman performing in a
nightclub.
Hellhounds On My
Trail: The Afterlife of
Robert Johnson WinStar 2000
Guy's track:
"Walking Blues"
Other Artists: Bob Weir
& Rob Wasserman, Keb'
Mo', Robert Lockwood, Joe
Louis Walker & Billy
Branch, Sonny Landreth,
Chris Whitley, G. Love
& Special Sauce, Tracy
Nelson, Marcia Ball &
Irma Thomas, Alvin
Youngblood Hart, Gov't
Mule, David Honeyboy
Edwards, Rory Block, Roy
Rogers, Henry Townsend,
Billy Hector Band, Bill
Morrissey, Peter Green
& Nigel Watson
Beat Street Orion Picture
Corporation 1984
Guy's role: "Kenny" "Beat Street is
the highly acclaimed,
proud spirited
movie/musical of the
breakdancing phenomenon.
Produced by consummate
entertainer, Harry
Belafonte and veteran film
producer, David
Picker." (Orion
Pictures, 1984)Guy
co-stars with Rae Dawn
Chong in this
groundbreaking film.
One Life To Live
1968 - Present
ABC
Guy's role: "Dr. Joshua 'Josh'
Hall #3" (1985 -
1986)
Law and Order
1990 - Present
NBC
Guest Appearance Episode:
"American Dream"
(episode # 4.8)
Guy's role:
"Russell Bobbit"
(11/9/1993)