Midnight Mist marks a step forward in blending life experiences for Voo Davis. His third release since 2009, Midnight Mist embraces the full panoramic sweep of Davis’ travels, musically and emotionally. And, as far as those travels may have taken him, Davis, and Mist remain firmly planted in the fertile soil of the Deep South, never losing their sense of place, even as Davis’ work has gained seasoning in the smoky bars and blues joints of the Windy City. It is immediately evident that, whatever influence Chi-town may have had on him, Davis remains southern through and through; ‘Bama born and bred.
The diversity of the arrangements and the warmth of the analog recordings, done in one or two takes, preserves the back porch intimacy of the project. In doing so Davis manages to create an aural experience that transports the listener out of the familiarity of the daily grind and into a fictional clapboard roadhouse replete with dirt floors and chicken wire, where the heat and humidity are only kept at bay by copious quantities of frosty longneck bottles of Jax.
The diversity of the arrangements and the warmth of the analog recordings, done in one or two takes, preserves the back porch intimacy of the project. In doing so Davis manages to create an aural experience that transports the listener out of the familiarity of the daily grind and into a fictional clapboard roadhouse replete with dirt floors and chicken wire, where the heat and humidity are only kept at bay by copious quantities of frosty longneck bottles of Jax.
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