Link Davis
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Biography
[Edit]Link Davis was born in 1914 in Sunset, Montague County, Texas. One of eight children, he formed a trio with two of his brothers during the late '20s, playing local dances. A natural musician, Davis started out playing the fiddle and later took up the saxophone. He gravitated toward Western swing music when he turned professional and one of his earliest known steady gigs was as a member of the Crystal Springs Ramblers, a Fort Worth-based outfit with which he cut his first record in 1937. It was after passing through several other local bands that Davis became a member of Cliff Bruner & the Texas Wanderers, playing fiddle or saxophone on a number of their records during the early '40s. He tried forming his own band — later known as the Blue Bonnet Playboys — in 1945, and cut his first solo sides in 1948. Davis moved to the Gold Star label the following year for one release, which included his version of "Good Rockin' Tonight," retitled "Have You Heard the News."
Davis spent the 1950s working under a variety of names, as well as backing various other musicians, including bandleader Benny Leaders, Floyd Tillman, and Smith Spadacene (working as "the Harmonica Kid") on fiddle or saxophone, occasionally singing with them, and making music in a variety of idioms and styles, ranging from country blues and Cajun music to rockabilly. He was equally capable in all of these areas — as far back as 1949, he'd cut a hot adaptation of "Good Rockin' Tonight" under the title "Have You Heard the News" — and could easily have been a competitor in the new field of rock & roll when it began breaking out in the middle of the decade. Some of the flavor of his stuff, such as "Grasshopper," was a little too southern to ever find favor outside of the region, but he was better suited in style to the new music than many other country music veterans who tried it on for size. Moving between the Starday, OKeh, Columbia, Nucraft, Sarg, and Allstar labels, and his own Western and Tanker labels, among many others, he left behind a significant legacy spread among all of those variant styles, which may be one reason Davis isn't better known. A fixture in the industry, he was too good at too many different kinds of sounds and not great enough in any one of them to make a deep impression with the public. He did earn a spot in the footnotes of rock & roll history by accompanying the Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" and Johnny Preston on "Running Bear," but most of Davis' recognition would reside in the country field.
Even into the 1960s, he occasionally made a foray into rock & roll with songs like "Rice and Gravy," but he failed to make a lasting impression in the field. He continued to be a top session musician and cut records in Western swing, Cajun, and blues style throughout the decade for different labels, mostly based in Houston, TX, until he was sidelined by a stroke late in the decade. After that, Davis' activities were far more limited, until his death in 1972 at age 57. It's only in the 1990s, some 20 years after his death, with the deep reissues of music by Cliff Bruner and Floyd Tillman, that Davis' wide-ranging contributions to country music, Western swing, and rock & roll fully began to be acknowledged. His son, Link Davis Jr., also a multi-instrumentalist, has similarly worked in a multitude of musical idioms, including recordings with Asleep at the Wheel and one of the latter-day incarnations of the 13th Floor Elevators.
Title: Gumbo Ya-Ya: Link Davis 1948-58
Artist: Link Davis
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, World Music, Country, Rockabilly
Title: Steel Guitar Jump (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Link Davis, The Bluebonnet Playboys
Title: Born to Love You (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Link Davis, The Bluebonnet Playboys
Title: My Pretty Blonde (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Link Davis, The Bluebonnet Playboys
Title: I'm Tired (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Link Davis, The Bluebonnet Playboys
Title: Broken Heart (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Link Davis, The Bluebonnet Playboys
Title: Slippin' and Slidin' Sometimes (Remastered) - Single
Artist: Link Davis
Collections
Title: Country & Western Music Hit Parade, Vol. 5
Genre: Country
Title: Rockabilly & Hillbilly Hell Raisers
Genre: Rock
Title: Rockin' Tennessee (50S Rock n' Roll Homage to Tennesse)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Best of Cajun and Zydeco
Genre: Country
Title: The Cajun Album
Genre: Blues
Title: Dancing Through the 1920s - 1930s
Genre: Jazz
Title: Country, Vol. 7
Genre: Country
Title: The Finest Vintage Melodies & Retro Tunes Vol. 6
Genre: Pop
Title: Country & Western Legends, Vol. 3
Genre: Country
Title: Vintage Children's Easter Music
Genre: Kids
Title: Classic Country Hits!
Genre: Country
Title: Rockabilly Town Rarities From the Vault
Genre: Rock, Rockabilly
Title: Lost and Found Rockabilly
Genre: Rock
Title: Rockabilly Hellbop
Genre: Rock
Title: Tasty Tracks
Genre: Pop
Title: New Orleans Jazz & Mardi Gras Music
Genre: Jazz
Title: Furious Rock n' Roll
Genre: Rock
Title: Rock 'n' Roll Into the 50's, Vol. 2
Genre: Rock
Title: The Greatest Country Songs
Genre: Country
Title: Pure Country Western Music, Vol. 4
Genre: Country
Title: Country & Western Classics, Vol. 12
Genre: Country
Title: The Cajun and Zydeco Collection, Vol. 3
Genre: Country
Title: Pan-American Recordings Vol. 12 (Primitive Love)
Genre: Rockabilly
Title: The History Of Country & Western Music (CD13)
Genre: Country
Title: Rockabilly Ruled UK Vol. 4
Genre: Rockabilly
Title: The Black And White Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop, Pop Rock
Title: Rock-A-Billy Dynamite, CD 37
Genre: Rockabilly
Title: Rock-A-Billy Dynamite, CD 36
Genre: Rockabilly
Title: 100 Complicated Hits Of The 50s & 60s (CD1)
Genre: World Music, Country, Rockabilly, Folk
Title: Rockabilly: Red Hot & Rare Volume 2 (CD4)
Genre: Rock & Roll, Rockabilly