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Davin James was born to a life in country music. As a child he used to camp and fish with his dad in the hills outside of Jackson, Mississippi. At the end of a long day, the pan would sizzle with their catch. The smell of cooked fish would waft into the surrounding countryside, and the campfire would dance in a lazy flicker. After a satisfying meal, Dad would reach for his guitar. Under a canopy of stars, the music and the environment created a special bond between father and son. It was in the moonlight James watched and learned the chords to Merle Haggard’s “Rambling Fever”.

” I knew when I hit that first chord,” Davin says, “I wanted to play music for a living.”

When the family moved to Kingwood, Texas, young James – not yet old enough to drive-began playing in local honky tonks. The intervening years became ones of song Continue reading →