MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS 2006 MOUNTAIN CULTURE FESTIVAL DOES IT AGAIN

Guy Davis 100% Pure Blues Bluesman Guy Davis is an artist who defies the rural blues myth. He views the blues as good-time music, the original forum for dancing above one's troubles, sorrow turned to exquisite joy. But even though he was born and bred in middle-class New York suburbs, he's 100 percent pure blues. The roots of his blues are as diverse as blues itself. He can tell you stories about his parents-Civil Rights activists and actors Ruby Dee and the late Ossie Davis-and his grandparents and great-grandparents, who worked as track lineman in the rural South and dealt with the KKK.

An actor and writer as well as musician, Davis has appeared in the film Beat Street, on Broadway in Mulebone, off-Broadway as Robert Johnson in Trick the Devil, and on
One Life to Live. But most importantly, Davis is a bluesman who learned to play guitar as a teenager from a nine-fingered stranger on a train. Davis is reviving the blues tradition with the material of the great blues masters and his own original songs and stories.

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