Gail Davies and Friends Live on Little Chickadee
Gail Davies And Friends Live On Little Chickadee BY DEBORAH EVANS PRICE some of her previous hits: "Grandma's Song," "Round ber "Blue Heartache," penned "Hometown Gossip" for NASHVILLE- Acclaimed bassist Leland Sklar once com- the Clock Lovin'," and "Bucket to the South." "A lot of the Whites, and has cut duets with Dolly Parton, Ricky mented that when Gail Davies first began producing bluegrass bands have cut that song," Davies says of Skaggs, and most recently Ralph Stanley on his Clinch records, women in Nashville were barefoot, pregnant, and "Bucket to the South." However, she admits, most peo- Mountain Sweethearts disc. in the vocal booth. "I knew that I was breaking ground, ple don't associate her with bluegrass music -even "I heard someone say the other day, `Everybody is and I knew it was going to cause a lot of static," Davies though she had a country hit with the bluegrass num- jumping on the bluegrass bandwagon,' " Davies says. "I recalls, "but it was something that I had to do." just want to remind everybody that in 1981, I brought Never one to take the easy road, Davies paved the way Jerry Douglas -who was just a kid -into the studio to for other female country artists to enjoy artistic freedom play, and the record company freaked out [and said], `If and creative control. Now 53 -and still as outspoken as we put dobro on this, people will think you are trying to ever -Davies continues to make music on her own terms. be bluegrass.' I used Jerry on probably one of his first Her new album, Gail Davies and Friends: Live & Nashville sessions." Unplugged at the Station Inn, is a lively acoustic outing Davies had a string of country radio hits in the late '70s recorded at Nashville's famed bluegrass night club.
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