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Eric Davis was born in the early seventies to Dorothy Walker and world renowned drummer Bobby Davis. Eric "Guitar" Davis begins to play drums at the age of five. By the age of ten Eric "Guitar" Davis had become a young regular on Chicago's blues scene, playing drums with the late Jr. Wells, Lefty Dizz, Buddy Guy, B.B. King and the list goes on. While playing drums on the blues circuit, young Eric "Guitar" Davis was hanging out at the legendary Checkerboard lounge on 43rd street. Eric "Guitar" Davis asks local blues bass man Flash to teach him how to play bass and Buddy Guy overheard the conversation from behind the bar and told Eric "Guitar" Davis that in order to get all the girls you have to play this, and handed Eric "Guitar" Davis his old beat up Fender guitar and showed him a open G chord. Forward almost 30 year and Eric "Guitar" Davis is a powerful force in his prime with fiery guitar picking, electrifying solos and a solid blues voice. Eric "Guitar" Davis has his own band The Troublemakers that plays frequently in Chicago's Hottest Blues clubs and in Southern Illinois, where he is becoming a regional phoenomea. Eric "Guitar" Davis has a Hot New C.D to be released in 2007 titled HERE COMES TROUBLE. One of Chicago's most sought out guitar players, he has played with Jimmy Burns, Big James and the Chicago Playboys, Cadillac Dave and his Redhots, sharing the stage with Tyrone Davis, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues, Shirely King, Linsey Alexander, to name a few.
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Article by Andrew S. Hughes.
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