His background in theatre 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, an earthy contrast to modern-day commercial music, meant to create thought, underlined by gentle tones from his guitar or banjo finger picking.

Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues.
He is a musician, actor, author, and songwriter. Guy uses a blend of Roots, Blues, Folk, Rock,
Spoken Word, and World Music to comment on, and address, the frustrations of social injustice, touching on historical events, and common life struggles

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Guy won "Keeping The Blues Alive" Award, and was nominated by The Blues Foundation for Best Acoustic Album of the Year, Best Acoustic Artist of the Year, and Best Instrumentalist. In fact, he's been nominated nearly two dozen times by the Blues Foundation. Among hundreds of newspaper appearances, he's also been featured in articles or reviews by:-
New York Times, Village Voice, Boston Globe, Pulse Magazine, Blues Magazine, Acoustic Guitar, Dirty Linen, Songlines, Blues Blast Magazine, Living Blues, Down At the Crossroads, The San Francisco Chronicle, Playboy Magazine, National Public Radio (NPR), "Folk Alley", and Sirius.
When asked about his experience as a performer, Guy replied, "There is no tale so tall that I cannot tell it, nor song so sweet that I cannot sing it.

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