Tim May and Brad Davis - Farewell Blues

Tim May and Brad Davis jam on "Farewell Blues".Tim May is a world-class guitarist, resophonic guitarist, and mandolinist who started out playing banjo in the family band growing up in Mississippi. Hearing Tony Rice and Dan Crary made a flat-picking guitarist convert out of him in a big way, and Tim has spent years exploring and pushing his craft.

He recently toured Japan with JOHN COWAN and has performed with PATTY LOVELESS, CHARLIE DANIELS, and EDDIE RABBIT promoting their CD projects, performed as a regular on the Grand Ole Opry in the Mike Snider Band, and recorded with CHARLIE DANIELS. Tim was the solo guitarist on "I'll Fly Away" (from Charlie Daniels' "Songs From the Long-Leaf Pines" album), a song nominated for a Grammy for Country Instrumental of the Year in 2005. He was one of the central performers and the primary chartist for the "Moody Bluegrass" project that married the best bluegrass instrumentalists and singers with classic Moody Blues music. He's an accomplished songwriter and singer as well, as evidenced by his new solo CD, "Find My Way Back.".

Tim has been a featured artist and writer for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine and has regularly judged the National Flatpicking Guitar Championship in Winfield, Kansas. He is a popular teacher at workshops across the country, and is - with fiddling wife Gretchen Priest-May - a central figure in the group PlaidGrass. Prior to that, he spent nearly 15 years in the critically acclaimed group, Crucial Smith, which had a CD produced by PAT FLYNN.

Tim's songs "Father Time" and "King of Babylon" appear on Pat Flynn's latest CD, reVision. Tim is currently working as part of a band called PLAIDGRASS, which plays interesting mix of Irish, Scottish, Old Time and Bluegrass tunes - see more at www.plaidgrass.net . Brad Davis spent ten years (1992-2002) performing on stage as a member of Marty Stuarts road band. For the past six years he has played lead acoustic guitar with Earl Scruggs and Friends, and for the past five years he has played lead electric and acoustic guitar with movie actor Billy Bob Thorntons rock band. He spent two years (2003-2004) as the guitar player for the Sam Bush Band and also performed with John Jorgensons Gypsy jazz Quintet in 2005. He occasionally performs with an exciting new bluegrass band, calling themselves "Greenbroke," consisting of Brad Davis, John Cowan, John Moore, and Dennis Caplinger.Brad has worked for, or recorded with, Willie Nelson, Emmy Lou Harris, Pam Tillis, The Forester Sisters, Tommy Shaw (Styx), David Lee Roth (Van Halen), Sheryl Crow, Sam Bush, Warren Zevon, and The Sweethearts of the Rodeo. He is currently the host of an upcoming singer-songwriter television show, in the works. Additionally, Brad has recorded two album projects featuring Billy Bob Thornton on Mercury Records and has toured both Europe and the United States as the lead guitar player for Billy Bob Thorntons band. Brad's two solo recordings on FGM Records "I'm Not Gonna Let My Blues Bring Me Down", and "This World Ain't No Child Anymore" were both released to rave reviews.

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[ronross411]

that flat picking is unreal! ii can only dream of playin like that.haha great jam

[fngrpkn06]

What a great jammin' duo!!

[haunter112]

Since when is this a BANJO tune?

Farewell Blues is an old jazz standard.

[Poneutria]

TIm is a top class musician and person. He is funny.

[queens2philly15]

lol i searched timmay and this came up

[joshuacash]

Great flat-picking ability on both parts! Very good for not having a banjo present in a banjo song. To all who say this is a bad rendition, they are poo-heads lol.

[HillBillyHickTrick]

it's okay but not the best

[TheThrowAwayKids]

stellar!

[xXxLovexOrxDiexXx]

whew!!!!

[greekflatpicker]

Brad is a monster picker,i think he should really have recorded this tune.

Btw:his Takamine sounds like a pre-war guitar.

Or is it his fingers?....