Delta Bluesman James "Boo Boo" Davis to Start European Spring Tour

PR Log (Press Release) – Feb 04, 2008 – Next month, March 7, 2008, Delta bluesman Boo Boo Davis will start a Spring European tour. The real deal. Boo Boo is still alive and kicking, writing and singing his music….. raw first-hand experience blues directly from the Delta.

Boo Boo's father, Sylvester Davis farmed cotton and played several instruments. Boo Boo remembers these and other musicians dropping by and rehearsing at their house.

At the age of five Boo Boo was playing the harmonica and singing in church with his mother. This band traveled all throughout the Delta and Boo Boo recalls a Battle of Music between The Lard Can Band and a young BB King.

In the early sixties Boo Boo and his brothers moved to East St Louis and started playing real drums.

In 1972 Boo Boo formed another Davis family band known as the Davis Brothers Band, It was the weekend house band at a club called Tabby=s Red Room in East St Louis for eighteen years.

Boo Boo can be heard on the Arthur Williams CD AHarpin= It Out@. The CD (East St Louis) got very nice reviews in the international blues magazines and is played on blues radio stations all over the world.

In the USA Boo Boo performed among others at the KING BISCUIT BLUES FESTIVAL (Helena, AR) and the POCONOS BLUESFESTIVAL. Colne GB Blues Festival (UK) and the NORTH SEA JAZZFESTIVAL (NL).

For his new recording project, Boo Boo teamed up with Ramon Goose (from nublues) and they fused the raw blues sounds from the Mississippi delta with modern grooves. MOJO Magazine (UK) listed it with the 10 best blues records of 2006 and Boo Boo was invited to perform for the 2007 edition of the POCONO BLUES FESTIVAL, one of the biggest blues festivals in the USA. In March this year Boo Boo performed live on CBC Radio One (Montreal) national radio in Canada.

March 7, Beauvais (F), Le Blues Autour du Zinc
March 8, Beauvais (F), Le Blues Autour du Zinc
March 11, Winchester (UK), Tower Arts Centre
March 13, Monaghan (IRL), McKennas
March 14, Keighley (UK), Bronte Blues Club
March 15, Castor, Peterborough (UK), Shakedown Blues @ Village Hall
March 16, Menai Bridge (UK), Victoria Hotel
March 18, Sheffield (UK), Boardwalk
March 19, Glasgow (UK), The Ferry
March 21, Laxey / Isle of Man (UK), Riverside Pavilion
March 22, Bocking, Essex (UK), The Retreat
March 23, Burnley (UK), BURNLEY BLUESFESTIVAL
March 24 (afternoon) , London (UK) session for PAUL JONES SHOW/BBC RADIO
March 24 (evening), Hampton (UK), The Raven 'n' the Blues @ BFBS Radio 2
March 25, Hoegaarden (B), 't Nieuwhuys
March 26 (afternoon), Hilversum (NL), live @ NPS Studio 6 (Dutch national radio)
March 28, tba (Canary Islands), tba
March 29, Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), Festival Internacional de Blues
April 2, Frth (D), Kofferfabrik
April 3, Fribourg (CH), La Spirale
April 4, Torino (I), Folkclub
April 5, Douzy (F), Chorus @ Salle des Fetes


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Apeldoorn Gelderland
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Email: jan@crossroads.nl