His connective folktales and stories captured the spirit of the form as a finely-tuned and literate sense of drama mingled almost paradoxically with downhome delta grit in mesmerizing progression. It's a piece which would hold its own with any of the best entries from the Blues Immortals. Davis writes almost all of the selections on his CDS and what he doesn't, he makes his own. He has found the source roots of the blues and planted his own seeds there. When it grew its own legs as a genre, it became so entangled with the core of American music that it's now inexorably seated in our collective subconscious perceptions.
Blues is intrinsic to our psyche.
It's just there . But Guy Davis marks the difference between being able to PLAY the blues and being able to DO the blues. Once you've got the latter, you can take it where you will and he takes it for a new ride- not on the authenticity of the tradition but on his own authenticity. First of all, acoustic blues are upon one level raw and basic, the wellsprings of rock, but they also come in a variety of stylistic flavors. Much of the genre you'll hear on the airwaves these days are the standard cuts of the classic artists or imitative covers by more recent devotees.