Bryn Davies is an American bassist

Bassist

A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

, cellist, and occasional pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

. She grew up in Livermore, California

Livermore, California

Livermore is a city in Alameda County. The population as of 2010 was 80,968. Livermore is located on the eastern edge of California's San Francisco Bay Area....

. In 1997 she majored in Jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 Performance at the Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

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 in Boston, Massachusetts. There she met mandolin player Billy Bright and guitarist Brian Smith, with whom she formed the Two High String Band. In 1997, Bryn began working with Peter Rowan as the Texas Trio, which toured the US and eventually would become the Peter Rowan & Tony Rice

Tony Rice

Tony Rice is an American acoustic guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz.Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New...

 Quartet.

In 2004 Davies moved to Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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. From January to August 2007 she worked with Patty Griffin

Patty Griffin

Patty Griffin, born Patricia Jean Griffin, March 16, 1964, is an American Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. She is especially known for her down-home crafting of songs and her connection to musicians including Emmylou Harris, Ellis Paul, and the Dixie Chicks, who have played with...

 on the Children Running Through

Children Running Through

Children Running Through is Patty Griffin's sixth commercially released album, and fifth studio album. It was released on 6 February 2007. The album features vocals from Emmylou Harris on "Trapeze". "Heavenly Day" was the album's first single....

 tour. Davies has an extensive discography, playing on records with legends such as Guy Clark

Guy Clark

Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....

, The Peter Rowan & Tony Rice

Tony Rice

Tony Rice is an American acoustic guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz.Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New...

 Quartet, Old and In The Gray, and Don Edwards

Don Edwards

William Donlon Edwards is an American politician of the Democratic Party, formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives from California.-Biography:...

. Bryn has toured with such luminaries as Marty Stuart

Marty Stuart

John Martin "Marty" Stuart is an American country music singer-songwriter, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music...

, The Tony Rice Unit, Darrell Scott

Darrell Scott

James Darrell Scott known as Darrell Scott , the son of musician Wayne Scott with whom he has collaborated, is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He moved as a child to East Gary, Indiana. He was playing professionally by his teens in Southern California, later living in...

, Guy Clark

Guy Clark

Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....

, Steve Earle

Steve Earle

Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....

, Jim Lauderdale

Jim Lauderdale

Jim Lauderdale is a musician & singer-songwriter who performs bluegrass and country music. He has recorded since 1986 and has released nineteen studio albums. Artists who have recorded his material include George Strait and Patty Loveless.-Biography:...

 and Shawn Camp (just to name a few). Along with her many studio and side projects, Davies currently tours with Darrell Scott

Darrell Scott

James Darrell Scott known as Darrell Scott , the son of musician Wayne Scott with whom he has collaborated, is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He moved as a child to East Gary, Indiana. He was playing professionally by his teens in Southern California, later living in...

, The Tony Rice Unit, and Justin Townes Earle

Justin Townes Earle

Justin Townes Earle , son of Steve Earle, stepson of Allison Moorer, and named for songwriter Townes Van Zandt is an AMA winning, Americana musician based in Nashville, Tennessee. Earle is signed to Bloodshot Records and has four released albums from 2007–2010...

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Discography

• Somedays The Song Writes You (w/ Guy Clark)
• Songs and Stories (w/ Guy Clark)
• Workbench Songs (w/ Guy Clark)
• Beautiful Dream (w/ Steve Conn)
• Send It Down (w/ Kai Welch)
• This Land: Woody Guthrie's America (w/ John McCutcheon)
• Passage (w/ John McCutcheon)
• Quartet (w/ Peter Rowan and Tony Rice)
• You Were There For Me (w/ Peter Rowan and Tony Rice)
• Old and in the Way (w/ Old and in the Way)
• Generation Nation (w/ Republic of Strings)
• Megan McCormick (w/ Megan McCormick)
• Could We Get Any Closer? (w/ Jim Lauderdale)
• The Good Life (w/ Justin Townes Earle)
• Midnight at the Movies (w/ Justin Townes Earle)
• Harlem River Blues (w/ Justin Townes Earle)
• Between Us (w/ Peter Bradley Adams)
• Traces (w/ Peter Bradley Adams)
• Jedd Hughes (w/ Jedd Hughes)
• High Lonesome Cowboy (w/Don Edwards and Peter Rowan)
• Ford Turrell (w/Ford Turrell)
• Roseanna (w/Marcus Hummon)

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