Davin’s music is more “black water” than “red dirt”. That’s probably because he grew up watching his father play guitar on lake banks in North Louisiana and South Arkansas.

Davin James was born in Jackson Mississippi December 6, 1965. He attended grade school in Monroe, Louisiana and Eldorado, Arkansas. In 1978 he moved to Kingwood, Texas. This is where he learned to play the guitar. His dad, Mike James, bribed Davin to learn Merle’s, Ramblin’ Fever, for $100. “Keep your money, Dad, and put it towards an electric guitar,” Davin tells. The rest is history.

Through the 80’s, he played honky-tonks, covering Hank Jr. and Lynyrd Synyrd as well as top 40 country songs.

In 1995, Texas music legend, Gary P. Nunn was handed a cassette tape. “That really started my professional musical career”, says Davin. Gary P. recorded four of Davin’s songs; Guadalupe Days, Back In the Swing, If You Had A Mind Too, and Siesta Sunday for is Roadtrip CD.

1995 also gave us Davin’s first CD, “Making My Mark”, best known for the song “Guadalupe Days” and “Back in the Swing”. The latter landed in the movie “Happy Texas” in 1999.

Davin landed another song on Gary P. Nunn’s 1996 release, “Under My Hat”. The song was the auto biographical, “I’ve come a long long way”. Davin was also invited to play guitar on those sessions. The record was recorded at Willie Nelson’s Perdenales studio.