The REAL COUNTRY label.

The proud label of traditional country recording artist BILLY MICHAEL DAVIS.

At LIVE OAK RECORDS, we encourage rather than oppress the artist's individual style. We do not adhere to the popular Nashville "cookie cutter" philosophy. We want to produce music that is true to the tradition of country music. That is why country is the only genre of music you will find on the LIVE OAK label.

THE ARTIST

BILLY MICHAEL DAVIS---PURE SOUTHERN HONKY TONK!

When you're talking BILLY MICHAEL DAVIS, you're talking country music.Performing since he was a child, Billy Michael is as comfortable playing a packed auditorium as he is a neighborhood beer joint. . He said the late Waylon Jennings said it better than he ever could. Waylon said, "Some people have their music. My music has me." That's Billy Michael . But let him tell you himself. Read his Bio below.

Here he is at a show in Nashville.

"My name is Billy Michael Davis. I live in Chesapeake, VA, but I grew up in Vidalia, Ga. It's a little town near Savannah. I really can't remember when I started singing because I grew up doing it. My father was a great singer and musician as well as my mother's brother, so between them they had me singing most of the time. My mother said I started performing publicly when I was three, but my first memories of performing are when I was about six years old. My father had what we called "porch pickins" on most Friday and Saturday nights. That sometimes included as many as ten or twelve musicians playing at once. People came from all over for these events because some of the best pickers and singers in the area showed up for them. I always did several songs before the evening was over. I always did a lot of gospel music in church growing up and later on I was in a couple of gospel groups. But later on I discovered beer joints and I knew I had found my niche. After that I played honky tonks and beer joints throughout the Southeast for years in several different bands. That is what gave me my style of music. I call it Southern Honky Tonk. The years in the clubs show in both my singing and songwriting. Over the years I've played everywhere from outdoor beer joints to big opry houses and community centers. I've been in country music for years and have been turned down by almost every major record label and publishing house. They all say they like my music but it is not marketable because it's too country for todays record buying public. But I believe there is still a lot of traditional country fans out there. As long as somebody will give me a stage or someone will buy my record I'll keep on picking and singing." Billy Michael Davis

THE ALBUM

BEST TME YET

Ten original songs by the Honky Tonk Man himself.

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