Artist description ECCLECTIC FOLK-ROCK: raw, solo acoustic guitar and vocals that fuses blues, jazz, funk and rock styles, bringing in the best of all genres.

Music Style ECCLECTIC FOLK-ROCK (with jazz, blues, and funk influences)

Musical Influences Ben Harper, Dave Matthews, Brian Setzer, James Taylor, Jamiroquai

Similar Artists Ben Harper, Dave Matthews, James Taylor, Jeff Buckley

Artist History Chris Davies grew up in the Washington D.C. area. He started playing the guitar when he was 16 and quickly became the rythmn guitarist and lead vocals for the grunge-garage-band En Guava. At the same time Chris was writing acoustic rock songs that later showed up on his 1996 CD Making the Minolta. Chris made the music scene in '96 in the Utah band Corduroy, a Pearl-Jam-style alternative group, for which Chris was the lead vocalist. At the same time, he was writing songs that later showed up on Mister Smartypants's Saturated Phat, a jazz-funk-influenced 1996 summer project smacking of the Chilli Peppers and Phish. Chris's innovative guitar style and jazz-laden riffs added a fresh new spice to the "Cougar Marching Band" (not affiliated with BYU), which subsequently changed their name to Ministers of Boogieor "M.O.B." as they became known in the party scene of Provo and Orem, UT (1999-2000). After quitting M.O.B. in the summer of 2000, just following the completion of the band's first CD and prior to what would have been its debut, Chris's jazz, blues and funk influence took shape as he began playing as a solo acoustic artist at small venues in Provo. In response to popular demand, Chris Davies cut his second CD as a solo artist, Playtime, in the summer of 2001. Now Chris is back in his homeland of D.C. Making the music scene only part-time as he busts his butt as a grad student at Virginia Tech in Falls Church, VA.

Group Members Chris Davies

Instruments Acoustic guitar and vocals

Albums Playtime

Location Centreville, VA - USA

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