Peter Horvath - keys;
Ken Harrill - guitar;
Dewayne Pate - bass;
Billy "Shoes" Johnson - drums;
Kenneth Nash - percussion;
Vincent Lars - saxophone;
Jeff Lewis - trumpet, flugelhorn;
Cole Davis - vocals, keys;
Jimmy Dillon - acoustic guitar;
Jeremy Cohen - violin;
Marguerite Ostro - violin;
Emily Onderdonk - viola;
Joe Hebert - cello;
Destiny "Harpist From The Hood" - harp
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Influences
Anyone who puts an honest word to music: Clay Walker, Alana Davis, Pearl Jam, Tupac, U2, Lalah Hathaway, Lauryn Hill, Allison Krauss & Union Station and many others.
"So much for soul mates, more like cell mates, looking at the calendar crossing off the days." It's lyrics like these that make you grab the liner notes to prove to your brain what your ears have surely heard.
Cole Davis is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter in the truest sense. She foregoes the standard R&B crafting of songs written to track, interpolations of our parents music or any other throwback to a musical era gone by. Ferris Wheel is timeless and current.
She studied the violin and viola throughout her schooling but it was in college that she realized her classical training was the foundation of her future career. Soon after she committed herself to studying the craft of songwriting. Of course, she studied the greats familiar to her, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, and Marvin Gaye. Country, folk and bluegrass soon became her focus. Making trips to Nashville, pitching songs to Dreamworks and EMI, and singing in local venues made her focus on her major goal.
Returning to L.A she began taking guitar and piano lessons to craft the songs that would become Ferris Wheel. This cd is a musical hybrid of R&B grooves, jazz composition with honest lyrics.
