Clinton Davis (G Burns Jug Band) is a musician born and raised in Kentucky and currently living in San Diego. As a multi-instrumentalist, he plays American folk and popular music of the early 20th century: hillbilly, jug band, mountain ballads, cowboy ballads, and more.
He first heard acoustic folk-blues and such while at home. “The seeds were planted when I was a little kid. My dad played guitar. The blues were not his bag, but other guitar players around him were into it, that Travis-style of guitar playing. But it really came alive for me in college, when I was listening to old folk recordings. The music, I thought, was deeply beautiful. There was deep musicianship, and none of these people were professional.”
In 2022, several years had passed since Davis collaborated with Mara Kaye to record the soundtrack to the movie Ana, Who They Pulled out of the River, filmed in 2019 but unreleased until 2021. The full soundtrack was finally released in March 2022, attracting much favorable reaction online.
(Photo by Julia McMahon)