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After decades of playing with some of the
best groups around, Davis Causey finally went
into a studio all alone and sat there for weeks,
playing and recording his own music, then
going back with different instruments and
recording himself accompanying himself on
various vintage Fenders and a dobro, a synth
guitar and other stuff.
Everybody looks forward in a performance
to Davis’s riffs — tossed off like wisecracks as
he occasionally steps forward into the lime
light that picks him out from the collective
band of coalescing in
strumentalists. What
a rarity, then, to have
a whole CD with just
Davis (and some
drum, part electronic,
part wrist) playing
music he has written,
touching all the
genres he loves.
With all the play
ing Davis has done
since he was 12 years
old — “You kind of
knew’ in school who
else was diseased.” —
in all the performances and all the studio gigs
w’ith Sea Level and the Allman Brothers and
The Flyers, and the Laughing Disaster and
Randall and Harold and Mad Dog and Bryan
and all that picking his many guitars on stage
and on -ecord he has never before put out a
recording on his own.
Now he has done it.
“I’ve been thinking about doing it for a
long time,” Causey says in his studio. “Up
here, there’s nobody looking over my shoul
der. It was a great learning experience.”
Davis wrote all the songs on the album,
except one, "Theme from a Dream,” which
was a favorite of his brother Billy, who died
last year. Davis dedicated the CD to Billy, who
was his earliest mentor in music, when they used
to lie awake at night at home while Billy played
Little Richard, Chet Atkins, Dwain Eddy, The
Ventures, and all the music of the early ’60s.
To record this CD,
Davis sat in the studio
behind his house in
Five Points week after
week and made up new
songs and recorded old
songs that he and
Randall have been play
ing for a long time and
received four that just
sort of dropped down on
him from above, landing
in his consciousness
with the distinct feeling
that Billy had flung
them at him.
“These songs just kind of came full
blown,” Davis says. “I’d just look up and say,
‘Thanks, Bub.’”
The CD reflects Davis’s eclectic musical
tastes: “I like jazz and rock’n’roll and country
and blues.... If I’m not playing music, it’s like
I’m taking up space "
Entitled, Over Home, the CD contains 14
songs and sports seme atmospheric photog
raphy by Atlanta designer and shutterbug
Wendy Rae Smith. Davis’s friend and fellow
musician Bob Jones told him last Christmas
Eve that it was way past time for him to do
his own CD and stayed on him, coaxing and
producing, until Davis found himself alone
with his guitars and stuck with it until some
of the music inside him and around him be
gan to flow through his fingers to the guitars,
to be captured on an 8-track, which he fum-
blingly learned to operate enough to capture
himself for posterity.
Now posterity will have a chance to hear
Over Home at the CD release party to be held
at the High Hat this Thursday, Dec. 12, from
6-8 p.m.. Davis will play some of the songs
himself — and, hey, the kid is nervous about
getting up there all by himself instead of sur
rounded by his sidekicks. Then after that or
deal, Davis will be in his element, perform
ing widi the Randall Bramblett Band at 9 p.m.
Meanwhile, the CD is available at fine record
stores everywhere.
Pete McCommons
Hear songs from Over Home. Meet the fam
ily. Eat some food. Stay for the Randall Bramblett
Bandat the High Hat, Thursday, Dec. 12. Starts
out at 6 p.m.; segues into the band at 9 p.m.
and goes on firm there.
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