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  Encyclopedia: Guy Davis
He is the son of actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.
Ossie Davis in The Green Pastures, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951 Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917–February 4, 2005) was an African-American actor, film director, and activist.
Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an African-American actress and activist.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guy-Davis   (322 words)

  
 JMI: Guy Davis
Whether Guy Davis is appearing on “Late Night With Conan O'Brien” or David Dye's “World Café” radio program, in front of 15,000 people on the Main Stage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, or an intimate gathering of students at a Music Camp, Guy feels the instinctive desire to give each listener his 'all'.
Guy can tell you stories of his great-grandparents and his grandparents, they're days as track linemen, and of their interactions with the KKK.
Davis' third Red House disc, "You Don't Know My Mind" explodes with passion and rhythm, and displays Davis' breadth as a composer and powerhouse performer.  It was chosen as 'Blues Album of the Year' by the Association For Independent Music (formerly NAIRD).
www.jproductions.com /guy.html   (832 words)

  
 Guy Davis - Bluesman
Whether Guy Davis is appearing on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” or David Dye’s “World Café” radio program, in front of 15,000 people on the Main Stage at the famed Winnipeg Folk Festival, or an intimate gathering of students at a Music Camp, Guy feels the instinctive desire to give each listener his ‘all’.
Guy can tell you stories of his great-grandparents and his grandparents, their days as track linemen, and of their interactions with the KKK.
Davis performed in a theater piece with his parents, actors/writers Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, entitled "Two Hah Hahs and a Homeboy," staged at the Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ in the spring of 1995.
www.guydavis.com /biography.html   (1576 words)

  
 Guy Davis - Bluesman
Guy and his family appreciate the outpouring of condolences they received since the passing of Ossie.
Guy was doubly pleased by the irony of the lead track on that album, “Uncle Tom’s Dead” being chosen as one of the ‘Best Songs of the Year’ by “All Songs Considered”, especially considering that most radio stations can’t play it due to ‘risky’ language.
Guy was preparing to go into the studio to record a dubbing session for what he referred to as a “milk and cookies” version of the song when his father passed.
www.guydavis.com   (975 words)

  
 Guy Davis | Legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guy Davis' newest offering possesses all the traits that makes him one of the best: a gruff, authentic vocal quality and adept, dexterous guitar playing (later in the album to include the reintroduction of the banjo).
Davis' manager, perhaps bored or curious, did a search of his artist's name on a search engine web site, and as I am sure you might be aware, many others share the name Guy Davis.
Comic book artist Guy Davis' drawings and minuet in the booklet, where Davis sells his soul to the devil (though at an ATM Machine and fast food joint, not a crossroads), are both appealing and add to the flavor of this album...
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=14794   (554 words)

  
 Guy Davis: Unstable Artist
I have always admired Guy Davis for three things: his attention to detail, his sense of design, and his insistence on not making his characters “pretty.” There is a realism at work in Davis’ art that really fits the subject matter he chooses to tackle, especially the period work.
DAVIS: I did do a lot of research for the architecture and clothing/hairstyles, but since the world of The Marquis is it's own, I just used that research as a springboard to get bizarre with some of the designs.
DAVIS: I've been really lucky and happy with all the cover artwork that was done for "Danse Macabre", it was a great thrill to see some of my favorite artists do their take on the character.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /features/104905002022144.htm   (5992 words)

  
 Guy Davis: Blues at the crossroads by Seth Rogovoy
Listening to Davis talk about the blues, it comes as no surprise to hear that he likes storytelling, as he is a masterful storyteller himself, both in person and in song.
That Davis wound up being a performer dedicated to preserving and perpetuating traditional African-American music makes total sense when one learns that his parents are the actors, directors, writers and social activist team of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.
A French TV crew was making a documentary about the blues, and they hired Davis as a kind of walking, talking head to escort the film audience on a search for the crossroads where blues pioneer Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil in exchange for magical musical powers.
www.berkshireweb.com /rogovoy/interviews/feat991015.html   (1130 words)

  
 Go 2 Guy: Davis fights Cirillo syndrome
If Davis can't hit rookies, journeymen, minor leaguers or big league pitchers who are tinkering with their stuff in a relaxed atmosphere in Arizona, how is he supposed to hit for a contender in a pennant race?
Davis could use a kick in the butt or a little positive reinforcement, and I've decided to go with the latter because the former could result in him kicking mine.
Davis said he is working on a shorter swing, trying to make good contact and hitting the ball up the middle.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /moore/167827_moore06.html   (934 words)

  
 Odetta
Guy Davis has an Aria acoustic guitar with harmonica and is accompanied by Mark Murphy on standup bass.
Guy Davis plays a Bob Dylan song, “Sweetheart Like You.” Wow, what an amazing rendition of Dylan’s poignant verse “what’s a sweetheart like you doin’ in a dump like this.” This is soothingly slow and very soulful.
She immediately pays tribute to Guy Davis and his parents, Ozzie and Dee Dee Davis, who are sitting in the audience.
www.bboogie.com /Odetta_Review.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Guy Davis
A master at setting intimate, richly nuanced tales to stomping acoustic blues backing, often with folky accompaniment from mandolin, banjo, and accordion, the 50-year-old performer helped revitalize the state of country blues in the 1990s with a string of critically acclaimed albums for Red House Records.
Davis is the son of actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, and that theatrical inclination didn't escape Guy himself: He also has authored and starred in several off-Broadway musicals, and even weathered an early stint on television's One Life To Live.
I wrote it in the home of Rod Davis, who used to be one of John Lennon's original Quarrymen.
www.bluesrevue.com /davis.html   (491 words)

  
 Toronto Blues Society - Jan 96 - Guy Davis
Guy Davis made his Toronto debut at a North by Northeast showcase last year and performed at Soul `n Blues later that summer.
Davis enjoys acting as well as singing and his theatrical bent must be what led him to invent an on-stage alter-ego who has the rural roots that he missed with his New York upbringing.
Guy is not one to define Robert Johnson as the focus (or should we say, locus) of the blues.
www.torontobluessociety.com /9601guy.htm   (972 words)

  
 [mplpost] guy davis in gravenhurst (muskoka)
It is only near the end of Guy Davis's engaging one-man show "In Bed With The Blues - The Adventures of Fishy Waters" that we are told how his stage alter-ego, an itinerant storyteller and blues singer named Fishy Waters, acquired his name.
Guy Davis is a musician, composer, actor, director and writer.
Guy Davis is a young African American artist who is giving the blues of the '20s and '30s his own contemporary spin.
www.coolname.com /pipermail/maplepost-mirror/2000-June/001142.html   (698 words)

  
 Blues On Stage - Guy Davis
When Davis finally wrote it down he couldn't remember all the words so most of the middle was made up, but it still belongs to Leadbelly and partly to Old Sarge.
Now there are two reasons why I love a Guy Davis show, the first, is the endless supply of wonderfully descriptive stories and the second, is the often encouraged audience participation.
Guy Davis tells us the stories he heard while he was a child.
members.aol.com /MNBlues/guy_davis2.html   (718 words)

  
 Guy Davis
When Davis is finally caught on the phone after a half dozen tries, it’s hard to tell which he feels more: grateful for the excuse to sit still for a few minutes, or worried about the work delayed as a result.
Our chat interrupted Davis while he was moving house, working on plays and screenplays, and rehearsing his band, the High Flying Rockets, for a tour behind his new release, Butt Naked Free (Red House).
Guy Davis CD release party, Thu., April 6, 8:30 p.m., Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0978, www.tinangel.com.
www.citypaper.net /articles/040600/cw.critic.guy.shtml   (202 words)

  
 Comic creator: Guy Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guy Davis began his career when he started at Arrow comics, later called Caliber comics, were he drew the series 'The Realm'.
Davis contributed to many Caliber projects such as 'Sinergy', 'Book of the Tarot' and 'Caliber Presents'.
Serving as the primary artist of the series, Guy Davis continues to work on that series and is now into his sixth year.
www.lambiek.net /davis_guy.htm   (141 words)

  
 CMT.com : Guy Davis : Biography
As a 13-year-old experiencing his first Buddy Guy concert, Davis' own fate as a bluesman was sealed, especially after he learned his distinctive fingerpicking style from a nine-fingered guitarist he met on a train traveling from Boston to New York some years later.
In 1994, Davis wrote and starred in the one-man show In Bed with the Blues: The Adventures of Fishy Waters, another blues-based off-Broadway drama which played to strong critical notice.
During the fall of 1995, Davis returned to writing and performing in the acoustic country-blues tradition with renewed force, issuing the live LP Stomp Down Rider on the Red House label; a year later, he returned with Call Down the Thunder.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/davis_guy/bio.jhtml   (422 words)

  
 News-Leader.com | Columnists | Brian Lewis | Memories of a father, a son and singing the blues
Davis was an actor on the stage and screen, a playwright and an author, and also civil rights activist.
Davis talked about the speech King gave the night before he was killed.
Davis then talked about the first time he played the instrumental song he was about to perform.
springfield.news-leader.com /columnists/lewis/20050213-Memoriesofafath.html   (795 words)

  
 321 -> Music, Music, Music: Legacy by Guy Davis | Order now @ 321-music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guy Davis started his performing career as an actor--he was Dr. Josh Hall on One Life to Live in the 1980s and he played Robert Johnson in the off-Broadway play Trick the Devil--and his first recordings, while quite good, sometimes sounded as if he were just playing the role of a bluesman.
On Legacy, Guy Davis serves notice that he isn't merely acting as a bluesman, but that he is emerging as the genuine article.
The cartoon insert of the Legacy CD includes Guy meeting the devil at the crossroads, and the devil observes that "only 2 percent of your audience is fl." And Guy's first cut, "Uncle Tom's Dead," on "Legacy" (recorded with his son) addresses this very issue, as it's an exchange over the significance of the blues.
www.321-music.com /t265359/legacy.html   (1184 words)

  
 Welcome to the Big Wheel Blues Festival & the   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Though raised in New York city, he grew up hearing accounts of life in the rural south from his parents and especially his grandparents, and they made their way into his own stories and songs.
Davis also performed in a theater piece with his parents, actors/writers Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, entitled "Two Hah Hahs and a Homeboy," staged at the Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ in the spring of 1995.
In 1992, Davis lengthened the play, renamed it "The Trial: Judgement of the People," and presented it at the same theater.
www.bigwheelblues.com /Guy_Davis.html   (1059 words)

  
 COMICON.com: Who is Guy Davis?
Guy Davis is part of what I consider an artistic elite with counts among its ranks people like Bary Windsor Smith, Mickeal Mignola, Dan Brereton and a few other that have yet to find the concept that will push their talent to something truly groundbreaking or something that reaches a lot of people.
You had a guy that was stretching the full possibilities of his talent while doing a popular character and it was very successful without the creator compromising anything artisticly(au contraire, Barry did things on it he had never done before).
And it`s a shame since these guys are part of what I consider an elite as being the best in their fields.
www.comicon.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=005532   (2716 words)

  
 Guy Davis
Though raised in New York, he grew up hearing accounts of life in the rural south from his parents and especially his grandparents, and they made their way into his own stories and songs.
The San Francisco Chronicle gave the CD four stars, adding: “Davis’ tough, timeless vocals blow through your brain like a Mississippi dust devil.” Charles M. Young best summed up Davis’ own take on the blues when he wrote in Playboy, “Davis reminds you that the blues started as dance music.
Davis is bridging the gap between the roots of the blues and the twenty-first century.
www.redhouserecords.com /Davis.html   (624 words)

  
 Guy Davis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guy Davis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Guy Davis is a (A magazine devoted to comic strips) comic book artist.
He is primarily known for his work on (additional info and facts about Sandman Mystery Theatre) Sandman Mystery Theatre and various (additional info and facts about Hellboy) Hellboy-related titles.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guy_davis.htm   (80 words)

  
 SuicideGirls > Words > Guy Davis
Guy Davis is best known to the members of SuicideGirls as the artist behind Sandman Mystery Theatre.
Guy Davis: I just finished penciling the second issue to the next BPRD miniseries, “The Black Flame”.
It continues on after The Dead and in it the B.P.R.D. guys have a problem with the frog monsters and we introduce a villain that had never been seen before but has been heard of in the B.P.R.D. world.
suicidegirls.com /words/Guy+Davis   (1576 words)

  
 Guy Davis - Bluesman
Guy's song is the title track to the CD for this fabulous campaign.
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.
www.guydavis.com /discography.html   (889 words)

  
 Guy Davis at Blues With A Feeling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Beat Street starring opposite Rae Dawn Chong and on television as ‘Dr. Josh Hall’ on "One Life to Live." Eventually, Davis had the opportunity to combine music and acting on the stage.
Stomp Down Rider, an album that captured Davis in a stunning live performance.
Davis Family Vineyards of California, located on a ridge top in the center of California’s renowned Russian River Valley will sponsor the album release tour.
hotburrito.20m.com /blues/guydavis.html   (1701 words)

  
 Welcome to Slushfactory.com: A Pop Culture Extravaganza
One of the great illustrators of our present comicbook industry, Guy Davis has impressed readers with his ability to write and draw, but more simply said, to tell a great story.
Guy Davis: Well, I was born in 1966 and have been living and working in Michigan ever since.
I remember it had a guy on the cover in a green outfit with a gun and I think at the time I thought it was the "Green Hornet." I don't still have it but I can still sort of remember it.
www.slushfactory.com /content/EpVZAEyuAVxUWCIgCH.php   (2643 words)

  
 Lincoln Center Institute - Bibliography - Guy Davis' Traveling Blues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It has a bunch of captivating quotes of Davis concerning his views on the significance of the blues and aspects of his musical career.
Guy Davis’ homepage includes links to his biography, discography, schedule, press, and a fan-feedback link.
It also contains links to Davis’ homepage, his availability, posters of the blues musician, high resolution pictures, a link to his riders and ad mats.
www.lcinstitute.org /resources_rc_bibliography_davis.asp   (3671 words)

  
 Guy Davis comes to South Street, Reading
Davis is one of the greatest acoustic US bluesmen.
His writing and storytelling is influenced by Zora Neale Hurston, Garrison Keillor, and especially by Laura Davis (his late one hundred and five year-old grandmother).
Often touted as a member of the new generation of country blues artists, Guy Davis is well versed in the music's traditions.
www.josaka.com /Content/2005/Guy-Davis-161005.htm   (539 words)

  
 FAME Review: Guy Davis - Butt Naked Free
Guy Davis has chosen to record in this medium.
Davis has written all but one of the songs on this album.
Other lyrics find Davis reaching for something more profound, and the liner notes reinforce this depth by explaining the inspiration for each song.
www.acousticmusic.com /fame/p01400.htm   (599 words)

  
 McClain & Company -  Principals - Guy Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guy Davis has been practicing public accounting since 1986.
Davis heads up the Financial Institution Division of the firm, providing accounting, auditing, tax and consulting services to financial entities.
Davis graduated from Florida State University, where he earned bachelors degrees in Accounting and Finance.
www.mcclaincpa.com /company/principals/davis.htm   (160 words)

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