His parallel careers — as musician, an author, a music teacher and a film, television and Broadway actor — mark Davis as a Renaissance man, yet the blues remain his first and greatest love. Davis is reluctant to define himself simply as a bluesman. “To me, a bluesman is somebody who has to carry a knife or a gun and enter dangerous situations and sometimes fuel it with alcohol — that’s not who I am. I call myself a blues musician, and to me the blues is a broad title. I include some ragtime, I make nod to New Orleans, and a nod to the fife and drum players. And I always include things that make you want to dance.” www.guydavis.com