Debbie Davies
Debbie Davies has brought a new sensibility to the blues. The former guitarist for Albert Collins & the Icebreakers, Fingers Taylor & the Ladyfinger Revue, and Maggie Mayall & the Cadillacs, an all-female band led by John Mayall's wife, Davies has continued to attract attention as the leader of her own group since 1993. "I believe my reputation backs up my ability to recognize exceptional blues," explained John Mayall during a early-2000 interview. "Such a one is Debbie Davies."
Davies' 1993 solo album, Picture This, featured a cameo appearance by Collins, who died of cancer shortly afterwards. Her fifth solo outing, Tales from the Austin Hotel, recorded with members of Stevie Ray Vaughan's band, Double Trouble, received a W.C. Handy award nomination. Love the Game, released in 2001, featured members of her touring band and was produced by Duke Robillard.
A native of Los Angeles, Davies inherited her musical skills from her father, who wrote arrangements for Ray Charles and worked in the recording studio with Frank Sinatra and Pearl Bailey. Performing in rock and blues bands in the San Francisco area in the early '80s, she returned to southern California in 1984.
After honing her talents as lead guitarist for Maggie Mayall & the Cadillacs, Davies was recruited to play with Albert Collins & the Icebreakers in 1988. She remained with the group for three years.
Touring with Fingers Taylor & the Ladyfinger Revue during the summer of 1991, Davies opened numerous shows for Taylor's employer, Jimmy Buffett.
Davies continues to play occasional sessions. Her 1997 album, I've Got That Feeling, featured duets with blues guitarists Tab Benoit and Montoya.
To date, Davies had recorded three albums for Blind Pig (Picture This, Loose Tonight and I Got That Feeling), four for Shanachie (Round Every Corner, Tales from the Austin Motel, Love the Game, and her John Mayall tribute, Key to Love), and in 2005 she released All I Found with Telarc Records, followed in 2007 by Blues Blast on the same label.
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Discography
13 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Homesick For The Road
Kenny Neal, Debbie Davies, Tab Benoit
Blues - Released by Telarc on Mar 23, 1999
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Round Every Corner
Blues - Released by Shanachie on May 19, 1998
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Love Spin
Rock - Released by Little Dipper Records - VizzTone on Apr 21, 2015
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Holdin' Court
Blues - Released by Little Dipper - VizzTone on Oct 27, 2009
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Key To Love: A Celebration Of The Music Of John Mayall
Blues - Released by Shanachie on Jan 1, 2003
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Grand Union
Otis Grand, Debbie Davies, Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets
Blues - Released by Westside on Mar 1, 1998
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Debbie Davies' Blues Blast
Blues - Released by Telarc on Aug 28, 2007
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Loose Tonight
Blues - Released by Blind Pig Records on Oct 10, 1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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I Got That Feeling
Blues - Released by Blind Pig Records on Feb 4, 1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Picture This
Blues - Released by Blind Pig Records on May 20, 1993
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Tales From The Austin Motel
Debbie Davies, CHRIS LAYTON, TOMMY SHANNON
Blues - Released by Shanachie on Jun 22, 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo