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Grammy
award winning artist Brad Davis spent ten years (1992-2002) performing
on stage as a member of Marty Stuart’s road band. For the
past six years he has played lead acoustic guitar with Earl Scruggs
and Friends, and for the past five years he has played lead electric
and acoustic guitar with movie actor Billy Bob Thornton’s
rock band. He spent two years (2003-2004) as the guitar player for
the Sam Bush Band and also performed with John Jorgenson’s
Gypsy jazz Quintet in 2005. He occasionally performs with an exciting
new bluegrass band, calling themselves "Greenbroke," consisting
of Brad Davis, John Cowan, John Moore, and Dennis Caplinger.
Brad
has worked for, or recorded with, Willie Nelson, Emmy Lou Harris,
Pam Tillis, The Forester Sisters, Tommy Shaw (Styx), David Lee Roth
(Van Halen), Sheryl Crow, Sam Bush, Warren Zevon, and The Sweethearts
of the Rodeo. He is currently the host of Commerce
County Line, a singer/songwriter television program on the iTelevision
network. Additionally, Brad has recorded two album projects featuring
Billy Bob Thornton on Mercury Records and has toured both Europe
and the United States as the lead guitar player for Billy Bob Thornton’s
band. Brad's two solo recordings on FGM
Records "I'm Not Gonna Let My Blues
Bring Me Down", and "This
World Ain't No Child Anymore" were both released to rave
reviews. He also appears on an FGM concert DVD video release "Live
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A
prolific songwriter Brad has had his songs recorded by various country
and bluegrass artists, including country star Tim McGraw (“Ain’t
No Angels”). He has played on Marty Stuart’s gold selling
album "This Ones Gonna Hurt You", the Marty Stuart "Hit
Pack", and Marty’s last MCA recording "The Pilgrim".
He played on the soundtrack of Steven Seagal’s "Fire
Down Below", and performed music for Billy Bob Thornton’s
Miramax releases "Daddy And Them" and "Waking Up
In Reno". He also recorded with Sheryl Crow, and others, on
the Johnny Cash tribute album "Kindred Spirits", played
guitar on Warren Zevon’s final Grammy-winning recording, "The
Wind", and was on Sam Bush's Sugar Hill release "King
of My World".
A talented guitar instructor and writer, Brad has been a columnist
for Flatpicking
Guitar Magazine since 1996 and is currently Takamine’s
main guitar clinician, conducting dozens of music store clinics
for Takamine
each year. He has taught at Steve Kaufman’s Flatpick Camp,
Nashcamp, Camp Bluegrass, the St. Louis Flatpick Weekend, the Roanoke
Bluegrass Weekend, and more. He has also produced four instructional
DVDs for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, "Flatpick
Jam", Volumes 1, 2, & 3 and a book/DVD/CD course called
"Flatpicking
the Blues". Additionally, he has produced several instructional
courses for Mel
Bay Publications, including the "Blue Book of Speedpicking",
and a series of instructional Ear Training Cds.
10
Things That You May Not Know About Brad Davis:
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