Tag: Brad Davis

Takamine T series dreadnought

| November 3, 2006 | 0 Comments

Takamine may not be a name that most bluegrass guitar players think of when thinking of great bluegrass guitars, but flatpicking master Brad Davis tells me it will be. Brad helped Takamine design and develop a new dreadnought call the T Series. There will be [...]

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Tim McGraw Bluegrass Tribute – Update

| November 1, 2006 | 0 Comments

We just got an update on this project from Brad Davis. He tells us the release date is set for November 21st, 2006. The label, CMH is currently evaluating songs on the project for release as a single. The title of the project is Where [...]

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Tim McGraw Bluegrass Tribute

| October 16, 2006 | 0 Comments

Brad Davis called me the other afternoon just to say hi, but as always I asked him what he had been up to. Brad is a busy guy. He produces a TV show, does his own touring, performs with Earl Scruggs, records and performs with [...]

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Brad Davis on American Idol?

| July 29, 2006

Brad Davis, good friend and occasional contributor to Bluegrass Today, has a song featured on the American Idol web site. They have created an offshoot site called American Idol Underground to promote independent artists. A wide variety of genres are included on the site, which [...]

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Brad Davis featured in Mel Bay’s Guitar Sessions

| May 17, 2006

This months edition of Mel Bay’s Guitar Sessions Webzine features an artist profile of Brad Davis. It’s a very thorough interview that covers a lot of Brad’s background in the music and with the guitar specifically, as is evident from this quote. The sound of [...]

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Midwest guitar/banjo workshop March 10-12

| February 14, 2006

St. Louis Flatpick is scheduled to run March 10-12, offering midwest guitar pickers – and now banjo players as well – a chance to study with some well known and highly qualified instructors. In addition to guitar instructors Tim May and Brad Davis, and banjo [...]

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Louise Scruggs Remembered

| February 2, 2006

This post is a contribution from Brad Davis. Brad is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has worked with a literal who’s-who of bluegrass music. Visit Brad online at braddavismusic.com. As I sit here and hold back the tears, I have just heard [...]

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Brad Davis, Flatpicking The Blues DVD

| January 30, 2006

Brad Davis’ name should be familiar to regular readers of Bluegrass Today. He has served as one of our Guest Contributors, and we have posted a number of times about his various exploits as a performer, guitar instructor, songwriter and sideman. The folks at Flatpicking [...]

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Earl Scruggs is a very funny man!

| December 27, 2005

This post is a contribution from Brad Davis. Brad is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has worked with a literal who’s-who of bluegrass music. Visit Brad online at braddavismusic.com. Several weekends ago, I was called to perform with the legendary Earl Scruggs [...]

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