Brock Davis

Brock Davis is a miner for emotional truth. As a songwriter, he descends deep below the surface to return with songs of love, loss and redemption that are honest, real and often heartbreakingly beautiful. His music mixes the fingerstyle acoustic guitar of contemporary folk with the jangly Telecasters and swirling B3 organ of roots rock, liberally seasoned with the slide guitar and rural landscapes of country music.

Now based in Santa Cruz, California, Brock grew up in a small mill town near Vancouver, Canada and those small-town roots come through in his writing. He has spent years working the bars and clubs, and the miles show in the voice — patient, unhurried, willing to wait for a line to land.

His latest album, A Song Waiting To Be Sung, was recorded at Ronnie's Place Studio in Nashville, TN with some of Nashville's top musicians. The result is a record that sounds lived-in from the first bar. You can hear the patience in the arrangements, the small-town candor in the lyrics, and the steady hand of a performer who knows that the best songs do not announce themselves.

It is country music in the sense that it knows where it comes from, and folk music in the sense that it refuses to pretend. A Song Waiting To Be Sung is a quiet argument for the enduring power of the troubadour tradition.

There's a confidence in how restrained it is when it needs to be, and how willing it is to swing when the song asks for it — that balance is harder to pull off than it sounds, and it's a big part of why this one sticks.