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- After spending years on the road playing country with Marty Stuart, bluegrass with Earl Scruggs, newgrass with Sam Bush, Gypsy jazz with John Jorgenson, and rock with Billy Bob Thornton, Brad Davis steps out front to prove that he can hold his own as a solo artist and band leader.
Brad Davis spent ten years (1992-2002) performing on stage as a member of Marty Stuart's road band. For the past seven years, he has played lead acoustic guitar with Earl Scruggs and Friends, and for the past six years he has played lead electric and acoustic guitar with movie actor Billy Bob Thornton's rock band. He spent two years (2003-2004) as the guitar player for the Sam Bush Band and also performed with John Jorgenson's Gypsy Jazz Quintet in 2005. He occasionally performs with an exciting new bluegrass band, 'Greenbroke', which consists of himself, John Cowan, John Moore, and Dennis Caplinger.
Brad has worked for, or recorded with, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Pam Tillis, The Forester Sisters, Tommy Shaw (Styx), David Lee Roth (Van Halen), Sheryl Crow, Sam Bush, Warren Zevon, and The Sweethearts of the Rodeo.. Additionally, Brad has recorded two album projects featuring Billy Bob Thornton on Mercury Records and has toured both Europe and the United States as the lead guitar player for Billy Bob Thorntons band. Brad's two solo recordings on FGM Records "I'm Not Gonna Let My Blues Bring Me Down", and "This World Ain't No Child Anymore" were both released to rave reviews. He also appears on an FGM concert DVD video release "Live in Kansas City" with Cody Kilby and Tim May. He is currently the host of an upcoming television program, "Commerce County Line", a singer/songwriter television program.
A prolific songwriter Brad has had his songs recorded by various country and bluegrass artists, including country star Tim McGraw ("Ain't No Angels"), Jo El-Sonnier ("Can't Give My Heart Away"), Billy Bob Thornton ("Always Countin'", "Beautiful Door"), Grasstowne ("Love You Don't Know"), Hometown News ("All The Time"), and Tony Trischka ("I'm Singing Harmony"). He has played on Marty Stuart's gold selling album "This Ones Gonna Hurt You", the Marty Stuart "Hit Pack", and Martys last MCA recording "The Pilgrim". He played on the soundtrack of Steven Seagals "Fire Down Below", and performed music for Billy Bob Thorntons Miramax releases "Daddy And Them" and "Waking Up In Reno". He also recorded with Sheryl Crow, and others, on the Johnny Cash tribute album "Kindred Spirits", played guitar on Warren Zevon's final Grammy-winning recording, "The Wind", and was on Sam Bush's Sugar Hill release "King of My World".
A talented guitar instructor and writer, Brad has been a columnist for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine since 1996 and is currently Takamine’s main guitar clinician, conducting dozens of music store clinics for Takamine each year. He has taught at Steve Kaufman’s Flatpick Camp, Nashcamp, Camp Bluegrass, the St. Louis Flatpick Weekend, the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend, and more. He has also produced four instructional DVDs for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, "Flatpick Jam", Volumes 1, 2, & 3 and a book/DVD/CD course called "Flatpicking the Blues". Additionally, he has produced several instructional courses for Mel Bay Publications, including the "Blue Book of Speedpicking", and a series of instructional Ear Training Cds.
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I am desperately trying to find a copy of the bluebook of acoustic speed picking
Can anyone help me find a copy, i've tried everywhere. Hey maybe Brad will read this and re-issue this publication. Thankyou
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Thanks for a great night.
I do enjoy the flatpick jams, and I just saw where they are downloadable in MP3 from Flatpick digital. you and Dan are cool.
reintroducing THE NEW GRASS REVIVAL into my life ~ an era/a genre that quite literally sprouted a legendary new NewGrass/Bluegrass/Genre of itself!
With the likes of THE ONE, THE ONLY :-) John the man COWAN, Béla Fleck and Californian Pat Flynn, Sam BUSH (YEHAWWWWW) I feel so VERY fortunate to have been party to seening these MULTI TALENTED Musical Heros of mine who still thrive, doing what they do so well YET!
Thanks as well, sheeesh!, for turning me onto Coffee Fool coffee, as I must say it is GREAT stuff (I buy it all the time)
Missed you at the Festival in Goldeen Gate Partk this year, and It is my DREAM to still get to see you,
(and would it not be the biggest JOY EVER to actually find you WITH JOHN COWAN as we'd so discussed years back???). I found a Newgrass Buff in these parts of Calif., who did a Bluegrass Radio Show out of Grass Valley for 15 years, thus we've been to many shows and BOTH feel the same about New Grass revival.
Stay in touch as you can, my man- your CD'S are alla on my i-pnone!
Enjoy life- you make mine better, certainly!~ Marguerite
My name is Mike Pullen and I wanted to let you know how much your Flatpick Jam video's have helped me. I looked for a long time for something laid out as these are with the different speeds (I'm slow) with the alternating rhythms. I'm playing a few tunes at medium/slow. I seem to have reached a plateau on speed but I will keep working on it. Remember the old capo with the bone leading edge? I have a great sounding Thompson HD28 and I still won't use any other capo on it just becouse of the tone. I even still have a couple of those bull horn picks although I don't use them any more. Remember those? Anyway you've helped me more than any other and i let anyone know about your stuff when I get the chance. I'm going to do a friend request if you don't mind although I'm not sure yet what the advantages are to that. Also I'd like to reccommend you to a local promoter with your permission. We have a coffee house/Hotel where we have concerts once a month with a very receptive audience of around 50 people. In January we will have Beppe Gambetta who is the only Flatpicker this town of 2500 has ever seen. I do my best to expose people to flatpicking in this area but right now I'm about the only one. I thought you might be interested in the gig because we are not that far from you. Davis, Okla. It is an unplugged show and usually pays the preformer $500 plus a night in a very nice room. It also helps raise money for local charities. Anyway I know it would make my day to have you play here sometime. If your interested I'll give your name to the promoter. Thanks for making me better. Mike Pullen
You may remember us meeting at The WildWood Springs Lodge in Missouri , Labor Day Weekend 04 , when you played there with Sam.
I am really looking forward to seeing you at our fest in May !
Bill
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