Orville Davis & "The Wild Bunch"

ORVILLE DAVIS/BarnBurner
Robert K.Oermann
-Orville is keeping country music alive and well in Manhattan. The title tune to his new CD is a fine, classic-sounding hillbilly bopper with stuttering steel and brushed drums. Elsewhere, he offers the fine ballad "Before You Loved Me", the rockabilly rave-up "Callin' Janie", the honky tonkin' "Don't Say You Loved Me" and the sentimental "Rich In Love." One constant is that he's hard-core country. - Music Row

One constant is that he’s hardcore country.
Robert K. Oermann, Music Row


BarnBurner is an astounding success.
Dante Domenick, Rockzillaworld


Anyone who wants to hear the genuine article , will enjoy every number on BarnBurner.

Ron Wynn, Nashville City Paper

This record stopped the Editor dead in his tracks. Seriously. Mid sentence, discussing the “good old days,” he stopped when “Knockin’ At My Door” began.
John Shelton / Top 21 Reviews


Let’s hope that “BarnBurner” ignites a Davis fire around the country. His writing, singing and picking deserve a large audience.
Ed Will, The Denver Post

- OD

Amazon.com
***** 5 Star Review Great country music, October 25, 2005
Reviewer: Constantin Merezhkowsky (New York, NY) - See all my reviewsThis is "pure" country music. I don't listen too much to what comes out of Nashville these days, but I like people like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash, and I suspect Orville Davis likes them as well. There are cool, instantly enjoyable songs here, all of them either written or cowritten by the singer himself. The band is superb as well, especially the dobro of Jim Heffernan and the bass of Willy Playlo.


BEST COUNTRY MUSIC: Ed Will
DENVER POST, December 25,2005


1 Billy Joe Shaver, "The Real Deal" The title track says all that needs to be said about Shaver, who mines his hardscrabble upbringing, salvation and family tragedies (he lost his guitarist son to heroin) to write and sing country music as real as you can find anywhere.

2 Dwight Yoakam, "Blame the Vain" Yoakam hits a home run his first time out without longtime producer, guitarist Pete Anderson. This is vintage country from the man who revived the Bakersfield sound of Buck Owens.

3 Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell, "Begonias"Cary and Cockrell have the perfect voices to bring back in grand style the almost lost art of country duets, perfected by George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn.

4 Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Jacksonville City Nights" Adams turns out his finest country album since his Whiskeytown days and confirms his place in the vanguard of contemporary singer-songwriters.

5 Orville Davis, "BarnBurner" This New York-based singer-songwriter strums up music that makes you get up and dance. Nashville by way of the Big Apple, and it works.
- kdm

By Ron Wynn NASHVILLE CITY PAPER
December 23, 2005

We list this week our favorite CD releases and reissues. Next week is devoted to DVDs and books, as well as our citing the greats who departed the scene. As always, this column avoids using the term "best" in describing these since it's impossible for any one person's list to accurately or completely cite every significant release in even one genre, let alone multiple ones.
Rock/Pop/Country/Americana/Bluegrass
Randy Travis - Passing Through (Word/Curb/WB)
Lee Ann Womack - There's More Where That Came From (MCA)
Porter Wagoner - Something To Brag About (King/Gusto)
Dan Trooper - Make It Through The Night (Sugar Hill)
Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust (Columbia/Sony)
Blue Highway - Marbletown (Rounder)
Bob Frank - Ride The Restless Wind (Bowstring)
Gene Watson - Then & Now (Koch)
Orville Davis - Barnburner (Fountainbleu)
Rodney Crowell - The Outsider (Columbia)

- Nashville City Paper