GAIL DAVIES
Saturday 18 November, 8pm. Doors open 7pm.
The Assembly Rooms, Presteigne.
Award winning singer, songwriter, performer, author, producer and member of Oklahoma's Music Hall Of Fame, Gail Davies will be performing with her trio in Presteigne on Saturday November 18th as part of a short tour of the UK.
Born in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, her family moved to the Pacific Northwest and Gail relocated to Los Angeles after graduating High School. Regularly performing as the lead singer of the Midnight Band at The Troubadour, Gail paid her dues in LA before moving to Nashville in 1975.
She signed with CBS/Lifesong Records in 1978 and released a self-titled album that scored three Top 20 hit singles, including Someone Is Looking For Someone Like You, which has been covered numerous times and translated into several different languages.
Unhappy with the production of her first album, Gail switched to Warner Bros. Records in 1979 and became the first female record producer in the history of country music. A series of albums in the early 1980s produced several top ten hits on the Billboard country chart. These records influenced many of Nashville's rising stars such as Kathy Mattea, Suzy Bogguss and Mary Chapin Carpenter, but by the late 1980s her own chart career was starting to wane and she took a job as the first ever female staff producer for Capitol Records. She also started her own record label, Little Chickadee Productions and began touring Europe extensively in the 1990s. She has since produced acclaimed albums of original material, a jazz album and tribute albums to Webb Pierce and her songwriter brother Ron Davies.
This upcoming UK tour features just 3 dates and is her first trip to the UK in seven years.
"Gail Davies is one of the most important and influential female singer/songwriters to have been involved in country music in the past 30 years."
MAVERICK MAGAZINE
"Country's new tide of self-directed women owes a large debt of gratitude to Gail Davies who was the first woman to produce, write and arrange her own records."
USA TODAY
Tickets - £15
Under 25’s - £10 (Limited tickets)
Available now online at wegottickets.com/event/593238