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Topic: Don Davis |
Darvin Willhoite
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Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 6:40 am |
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I had never heard of this guy, but ran across this while looking for something else. Interesting.
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Eddie Cunningham
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Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 7:18 am Don Davis = Grand Ole Opry
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| Yes , I remember Don Davis playing steel on the Opry in the 40s and 50s, he was staff musician and played with several singers along with Bobby Foster , another great staff steeler on the Opry !! Eddie "C" ( the old geezer ) |
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Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 7:33 am
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Don Davis and Bob Foster were two of the busiest session musicians in Country Music in the 1950's, they recorded with almost all of the "Greats" of the era. Both played non-pedal...
Kind Regards, Walter
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Roy Ayres
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Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 8:34 am
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When Don Davis left Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys to go with Tex Williams in California, Pee Wee hired me to replace Don. Don left me some big shoes to fill.
Later, Don went into the Army and toured the USA with a Special Services band entertaining the troops. After that, he returned to Nashville, did studio work, then got more into the business end of music.
Don is still well and kicking -- but is no longer active in music. I talked to him by phone a year or so ago. He operates a vacation resort (rents out cabins, etc.) on the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 4:51 pm His GUITAR is now mine!
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I feel fortunate to have been in a position to acquire Don's former SHOT Jackson-Jerry Byrd Fry Pan.
While I didn't purchase it directly from Don, I have communicated with him about the instrument.
He too, used to play with George Morgan's Candy Kids band and while he was in the military, JERRY BYRD worked in his spot....including the popular Robin Hood Flour Show.......
He's a great player and while he had his own strong style, he could play closely to the sounds of JERRY BYRD and Billy Robinson, but also Juaquin Murphy. |
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Barney Y. Miller
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Covington, GA, USA
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Posted 24 Apr 2007 7:11 pm
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Don Davis has a big heart. Looking back he gave me my first steel guitar. We lived not to far from his mom the late Ms. Beard, I was only a very young teen ager at the time. When I knocked on the door Ms. Beard told me to come on in that guitar is under the bed and I can tell you now its got a lot of rust on the strings. I said it doesn't matter about that, I can clean that rust off. In doing so I broke some of the strings. To me then that was a dream come true. Anyway a few months after that when Don was home I talked to him on the phone and he ask me "how do you like that guitar?" I said it was just great after I got all that rust off. He responded "Just bring it on back" of course he didn't mean it but I didn't know it at the time and I cried like a whipped pup and he started laughing at me. He has given many steel players guitars and is a hero to me and them. I was honored to have sit in for him on the TV show while he recovered from a broken arm. That was just great. Having known him most of my life I can think of no other person that deserves to be in any hall of fame world wide.
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Bill Stafford
From:
Gulfport,Ms. USA
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Posted 27 Apr 2007 4:15 am Don Davis
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Don was in the audience at our Deep South Steel show along with Howard White and Scotty. You should have seen Howard's reaction when I announced that Don was in the audience. They really had a great re-union -and it was wonderful seeing this friendship renewed with those three legends-Scotty, Howard and Don. Makes all the efforts worthwhile to put on one of these shows.
PS:Our next DSSG show here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast will be on June 30th.
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