Emerging Scottish singer/songwriter with a lot to say and a guitar to say it with. Watch this space for upcoming videos.
Richard Davies has been crafting stories of the dispossessed and the have-nots since he first picked up the guitar.
Played with wry humour and a compassionate heart, Ritchie’s tightly arranged tracks are underpinned by a driving steel hawser bass, melodic guitar and lyrics from a distinctive voice, sometimes tender and fragile, sometimes on the edge of a dark, raw howl.
Theatrical, occasionally cinematic, his painfully honest sound speaks with a vulnerability and honesty necessary for our troubled times.
Delivered with a sureness of touch both refreshing and unsettling in equal measure, there’s a sense of magic realism underneath, about being on the threshold of wisdom, about knowing and feeling in equal measure.