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Like Joanna Connor and Sue Foley, Debbie Davies’s first love was playing guitar. Writing good songs and developing her vocal chops came about later for this Los Angeles native, now living in Connecticut.
Born to musician parents in Los Angeles, Davies cut her teeth in the San Francisco Bay area, playing blues and rock & roll for a time in college. Back in Los Angeles in 1986, she joined Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs, an all-female R&B band led by John Mayall’s wife. Subsequently, she joined Albert Collins’s Icebreakers in the late ‘80s. Collins used Davies to open his shows, and as part of Collins’s band for three years, she got to play dueling guitars nightly with Collins while traveling throughout the U.S., Europe, and Canada. In 1991, Davies became lead guitarist for Fingers Taylor and the Ladyfingers Revue, a band made up of many of the nation’s best female musicians. This group opened for Jimmy Buffett’s “Outpost Tour.”
Davies takes most of her inspiration from the two blues guitar masters that she’s paid the most attention to, her late boss Albert Collins and Eric Clapton. As a talented songwriter, vocalist, and most importantly, ensemble guitar player, Davies has been leading her own band since September, 1991. She has two excellent albums for the San Francisco-based Blind Pig label, Picture This (1993) and Loose Tonight (1994). Round Every Corner appeared on Shanchie in 1998, and the following year Davies released Tales From The Austin Motel.
Debbie Davies plays Dean Markley NickelSteel Electric’s Cust Lt.
Be sure to visit the Debbie Davies website at:
www.DebbieDavies.com.
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