Debbie DAVIES

 DEBBIE DAVIES 
DISCOGRAPHY 1993-2012 (15CD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

       

Debbie Davies (born August 22, 1952, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American blues guitarist. Debbie Davies is an award-winning singer, songwriter, guitar player of extraordinary talent.

A professional musician since the early 1980s, Debbie ranks among the top blues artists in the country. She has received ten nominations for Blues Music Awards, and in 1997 and 2010 won the award for Best Contemporary Female Blues Artist.

Davies’ rise to the upper echelon of blues music started at an early age as she absorbed the music heard constantly in her home. Her (professional) musician parents were either sitting at the piano or spinning discs on their turntable, filling the air with the sounds of big band jazz, harmony vocal groups, or the pop icons of the day.

But the young Davies was particularly attracted to the bluesier sounds of her father’s Ray Charles records, and by the age of 12 realized that her affinity for an instrument was not for the piano, but for the guitar.

Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960’s, she found that being a female guitar player meant only one thing: acoustic guitar. Electric guitars were still toys meant only for boys. But when Debbie heard the sounds of the British blues-rock bands, particularly the electric guitar of Eric Clapton with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, she became completely captivated. Going against the grains of society’s accepted roles of the time, Debbie pursued her dream with the passion of an artist and the soul of a rebel......

Martin LANG

⬇️ MARTIN LANG ⬇️

(5CD)

 BIOGRAPHY 

At the age of 29, Martin Lang has spent half his life playing and studying the music of the Chicago Blues masters. Not only has he paid his dues in the south and west side clubs, he's also played with and learned directly from many of the veterans who were part of the Chicago blues harp scene in the 1950s.

Here he's supported by one of the men who was there are the birth of that scene, the guitarist on some of Little Walter's greatest recordings, Dave Myers. Thanks to the rock-solid and sympathetic support, Martin beautifully captures the swinging phrasing and rolling rhythms that are the essence of the classic Chicago style.