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Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues. He’s a musician, actor, author, and songwriter. Guy uses a blend of roots/ blues/ folk/ rock/ rap/ spoken word & world music to comment on and address the frustrations of social injustice and common life struggles by touching on historical events. Guy’s background in theater is pronounced through the lyrical storytelling of songs “God’s Gonna Make Things Over” about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, “Welcome to My World”, and “Got Your Letter In My Pocket”. His storytelling is sometimes painful, deep and real. It’s meant to create thought, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo fingerpicking. Guy won “Keeping The Blues Alive” Award, and was nominated by The Blues Foundat... more...