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Topic: Anyone aware of Bubba Davis? |
Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 28 Sep 2006 5:49 am |
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Bubba's the local steel guitar hero around southeast Virginia (since Kenny Dail moved) and is an excellent player! He's led his own band (The Right Combination) for many years and worked continuously for 35 years or more in this area. I don't think he's ever played for a living as he's retired from the Fire Department but he plays as well as anyone out there and has one of the prettiest E9th sounds in the area (since Kenny Dail moved). Bubba can play anything that's thrown his way. He plays a D-10 Emmons or Mullen but usually sticks to the "commercial" neck. If you're ever in the Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, or any area of southeast Virginia and want to hear some good steel playing, just contact me and I'll let you know where he's playing. You can see more about Bubba at the Steel Guitarists of Hampton Roads website which is: www.evertize.com/sutphin
...........JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!!
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Joseph V. Sapp
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eastern shore, Md.
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Posted 28 Sep 2006 10:41 am
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Jerry
I met bubba back in the mid 70's along with Kenny Dail, Johnny Wolf, Larry Sutphin, and a few others from the area. and your 100 percent right. a fantastic player and picker as well. just good people all the way around. sure would like to hear them all again. Stay safe, take care, and God Bless
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 29 Sep 2006 6:55 am
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Hey Joe, Bubba's still playing most weekends around here.
Kenny Dail moved to Kinston, North Carolina and is still pickin'. I went to a stee jam last weekend down there and played some with him.
Johnny Wolf (The Wolf Man) A super player to say the least. Johnny died about 10 or more years ago from kidney problem. Both his kidneys had failed and he had to take dyolisis (spelling?) several times a week. I knew Johnny from the sixties when he was on the west coast playing for Rose Maddox and I was working for her brother Fred...
Larry Sutphin...A very good player as well as vocalist. I just completed a 4 year stint playing with Larry in a band called "The Legends" on lead guitar. Larry is doing a single thing with tracks at mostly nursing homes around the area. He does at least one, sometimes two, one hour shows per day and makes pretty good money doing that.......JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!!
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Kenny Dail
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Kinston, N.C. R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Sep 2006 8:52 am
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Bubba Davis is a very very good steeler. Plays with a lot of emotion and authority. He is no strnger to the E9th neck
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kd...and the beat goes on...
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