Brittany Davis

One Liner:  Blind musician making hip hop-inspired jams and offbeat sounds

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but hip hop, R&B
Home: Seattle (via Kansas City, MO)

Poster Position: 19
Weekend One Only.
Saturday at 2:05.

Tito's Tent.

Thoughts:  Well, here is a curveball.  Never heard of them before, but this is a blind, formerly homeless, non-binary, foul-mouthed, party-starting keyboard player and singer.  Just a string of words I never considered to be in my fingers.  Blind since birth, they were homeless after moving to Seattle when they were 14.  They say that they were having to figure out a lot then, like trying to play broken ass keyboards without being able to see them, but they love music so much that they just persevered.  They played in church as a kid, and says they loves gospel and jazz.  But these tunes sort of lean into a hip hop style.

Now they not only play in her own band, but they also play in a band called Painted Shield with Pearl Jam's guitarist Stone Gossard.  Never heard of that!  Need to check it out as well.  Into the queue with that one.  

One album, the extremely long 2024 release Image Issues, with an astounding 26 tracks.  Some are spoken word interludes, but still, that is a long ass album.  There is a very clear winner of the streaming game with "Sepricon," a funky ass James Brown-style track with 146k streams.

Makes me think of that Mystikal track that is like FEEL GOOD IN THIS MUTHAFUCKA!  They kind of have a beard in some images, but their voice definitely sounds more like a gal.  "Through the Motions" makes me think of Andre 3000/Outkast.  "So Fly" is fun.  According to their Spotify bio, they not only sing on the album, but they also make almost every sound on it and co-produced.  That is badass.

Nothing else in their catalog breaks the 40k barrier as of right now, but the closest is one of the first tracks, the title track from their 2022 EP called I Choose To Live.  39.7k streams.

There is an hour long documentary about them available on their website, but I'm not committed enough to go through that whole thing.  I think this is pretty solid music, and their (I have had to go back and fix the dang pronouns like 4 times in this post, dangit) story is great.  Depending on the schedule may be interesting to go see in person!