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Artist
Debbie Davies
12+ albums
bluesblues rockfemale vocalistsblues guitar womenguitar
about
A thirty-year veteran of the road, Debbie Davies is truly one of the leading lights on the contemporary blues music scene today. She is one of less than a handful of women who paved the road for all of the young female guitar players on the scene today. 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, and The Koko Taylor award. “She wields an electric guitar as if it were a wand.” — LOS ANGELES TIMES 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, particul
