2005-02-06
California-based urban pop songwriter Alana Davis is the daughter of jazz pianist Walter Davis Jr, who was a sideman for Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and jazz singer Anamari Davis.Alana first reached your ears with a hit cover of Ani DiFranco’s “32 Flavors” from her 1997 debut release. Her latest disc Surrender Dorothy is her first offering since going the indie route and forming her own Tigress Records label.
It brings together Alana’s folk, pop and soul influences and even includes her take on her hero Bob Marley’s “Nice Time”.
Fields of Industry
Two Dogs, A Television
WISE IN TIME
The Ballad of Den the Men
THE BACON BROTHERS
Philadelphia Road - The Best of The Bacon Brothers
Vigilantes
Howard City
The Innocence Mission
We Walked In Song
COLDPLAY
Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
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