The Doc Severenson of Country Music
On 12-04-2008
at 9:06 pm
I need to repent. I always wrote off Danny Davis as someone who tried and failed. We buy his music directly, so he frequented the office quite abit. I pitied him. I thought, here is a guy that has to personally peddle his music. Now, when it comes to country music, I am not your average layman. I grew up listening to the greats, but there are some things that you just have to learn on your own. On an earlier blog, I had the pleasure of researching Danny Davis’ life and I was humbled. The artists that he has worked with, the body of work that he has amassed, and the important contributions that he has made towards music is staggering. He has worked with legends, such as, Ray Charles, Connie Francis, Elizabeth Taylor, Waylon Jennings, just to name a few. He first started playing in bands up and down the east coast with the likes of Art Mooney, Sammy Kay, and Bob Crosby. He was hired by Chet Atkins, and became a successful producer at RCA(Jennings’ Macarthur Park won a grammy). Of course, you can read about Danny’s life from websites like Wikipedia or Allmusic, but it is all going to be second hand information. I was surprised to learn that the horse’s mouth is now speaking, posthumously that is. A few years ago Davis and Thomas King teamed up and chronicled an exhaustive autobiography that will surely educate people on how Danny was truly music’s best friend. There was not a genre that Davis didn’t have his hand in. The book is titled Guess Who I Met Today, The Story of Danny Davis, and is now available in stores everywhere. Danny Davis is so much bigger than the Nashville Brass. I am wondering why it took so long for Danny to do this, but I just remember the man that would come in with a stack of cds under his arm. He always had a smile on his face, and you could definitely tell that this man was humble. So the timing couldn’t have been more perfect.
