Gruner Brothers welcomes singer-songwriter Aaron Davis! Wyoming-grown alt-country, slide blues, alt-folk, and story songs from an award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Aaron brings a trove of instruments to the stage in various tunings—acoustic guitar, resonator/dobro, banjo, harmonica, and foot percussion.
In 2021, Aaron was one of two songwriters in Wyoming to be awarded a Performing Arts Music Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts—“a merit-based honor for an artist’s work in their field.” That spurred Davis’ 10th release, Catalyst, which is on deck for August 2021.
Davis is chiefly known as co-founder of longtime alt-folk/country-blues band Screen Door Porch, for his eclectic solo ramblings and the accompanying project Aaron Davis & the Mystery Machine, and as a studio engineer and session player at his own Three Hearted Recording Studio in Hoback, Wyoming.
From "searing slide guitar" (Country Weekly) echoing gritty Southern blues à la Duane Allman, to a patchwork of story folk and acoustic roots, Aaron has been described as a “truly phenomenal songwriter” (Americana UK) with “a particularly interesting approach that mixes poetry, groove and roughness” (Lonestar Time) and "a combination that goes down smoothly as top shelf bourbon" (Austin Chronicle).
Davis has spent half of his life in Kentucky, the latter half in Wyoming, and another lifetime carving out a humble existence as an independent recording artist who pays much respect to the Bluegrass and Equality states through his lyrics.
Aaron’s songs have landed in various projects including films, commercials, documentaries, podcasts, and network television. He has been fortunate to share bills with many of his heroes—Wilco, Willie Nelson, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Buddy Guy, Sam Bush, Brian Wilson, James McMurtry, Steve Earle, Grace Potter, and Hayes Carll among them. This has led to theater, club and festival stages including South by Southwest, Treefort Music Fest, Magic City Blues Fest, and Sawtooth Music Festival.