Debbie Davies (born August 22, 1952) is an American blues guitarist.
Davies was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. She has been the featured guitarist in several female based bands including Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs (led by John Mayall’s wife), and Fingers Taylor and the Ladyfinger Revue (who opened for Jimmy Buffett during his 1991 tour).
Besides her solo work, Davies is best known for her work with Albert Collins as a member of his band, the Icebreakers, from 1988 to 1991.
Over the years she has collaborated with several well-known musicians such as Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton (aka Double Trouble), Coco Montoya, J. Geils and Duke Robillard. She continues to record and tour.
Davies won the 1997 W. C. Handy Award for Best Contemporary Female Artist.[2] and the 2010 Blues Music Award for Best Traditional Female Artist. (wikipedia)
And here´s her 10th album:
A tribute to British blues master John Mayall by a modern electric American blues performer like Debbie Davies makes perfect sense. For better or (sadly more often) worse, singer and keyboardist Mayall and his succession of lead guitarists led by future UK blues-rock superstars Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) and Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac) have profoundly influenced generations of American blues-rockers far more than homegrown stars like Muddy Waters or Howlin’ Wolf. Debbie Davies’ rather watered-down blues-rock style is a perfect example of Mayall’s influence, and actually, Key To Love turns out to be one of her most enjoyable and genuinely bluesy efforts.
Things start promisingly with the sly Mose Allison-like piano shuffle “Light the Fuse,” and both Green and Taylor drop in to provide guest solos; Green’s plangent wails on the organ-driven “Nature’s Disappearing” are probably the best playing on the entire album. In the context of a fine selection of some of Mayall’s best (and, refreshingly, mostly not his best-known) tunes, the two Davies originals, the snide “Takin’ It All to Vegas” and the clichéd “I Just Came To Play,” sound like unnecessary afterthoughts. (by Stewart Mason)
Personnel:
Don Castagno (drums)
Debbie Davies (guitar, vocals)
Bruce Katz (keyboards)
Paul Opalach (guitar, slide-guitar)
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James Cotton (harmonica on 02. + 04.)
Peter Green (guitar, harmonica on 11.)
Mick Taylor (guitar on 03.)
Tracklist:
01. Light The Fuse (Mayall) 2.58
02. Chicago Line (Mayall) 3.36
03. Hard Road (Mayall) 4.53
04. Room To Move (Mayall) 3.35
05. Takin’ It All To Vegas (Davies) 3.14
06. Dream About The Blues (Mayall) 5.40
07. Key To Love (Mayall) 3.14
08. I Should Know Better (Mayall/Taylor) 4.45
09. I’m A Sucker For Love (Mayall) 3.21
10. Steppin’ Out (Frazier) 2.22
11. Nature’s Dissappearing (Mayall) 4.08
12. I Just Came To Play (Castagno/Davies) 3.34
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When Los Angeles-based independent record label Cleopatra Records, Inc. began attracting talent from modern blues artists and purchased the estate of blues legend Junior Wells, the company decided to create a label imprint dedicated to the genre. Thus, Cleopatra Blues was born in 2015 and established itself with a logo based on a well-known of photo of Junior Wells smoking a cigarette.
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