Rachael Davis

What people say about Rachael:

Mary Lou Lord: “[Rachael sings] with the voice of the most beautiful color you’ve never seen.

Susan Werner: “We don’t have Eva Cassidy anymore but we do have Rachael Davis”

Eddie From Ohio: “With a voice that moving – we could listen to her sing the alphabet all night and that would be enough.”

Ellis Paul: “Rachael Davis . . . has one of those voices that you know will somehow find its way to a national spotlight . . . keep an eye — and an ear — out for her”

Claudia Schmidt: “Rachael is a bold explorer in the undefined and powerful territory of her primary instrument — her own human voice — and the stories that come through it.”

Dean Magraw (folk and jazz guitar wizard): “People . . . please open your hearts and bathe your ears in the ‘Be-here-now, soul-on-your-sleeve’-inspired new voice of Rachael Davis!”

Scott Alarik (Boston Globe): “Davis is off to a faster start than any Boston-based songwriter in memory.”

Ben Edmonds (Detroit Free Press): “Davis commands a voice older than her years, an instrument that is equally sure expressing strength and vulnerability, and her songwriting is fearlessly eclectic.” (full article)

Brian Bishop (The Musical Curmudgeon): “This woman is anything but minor league. She has a major league voice which essentially is her instrument . . . You better see Davis soon, because it won’t be long before it will be too late to say: ‘I saw her when.'”

Mike Hughes (Lansing State Journal): “Her voice and songwriting seem to defy age. One moment, she’s a jazz singer, her voice vaulting across ranges; the next, she’s a folksinger, wizened and weary.”

Ann Arbor Review: “Her music is built around her voice, a shimmering and versatile thing that trips lightly through Ella-esque jazz lines, growls and belts and glides.”

Jack Leaver (The Grand Rapids Press): “Davis’ music defies categorization. The 10 tracks on her debut run the gamut of her influences, with minimal instrumental backing built around her versatile and powerful voice.” (full article)

Holly Figueroa (singer/songwriter): “Another really scary thing as a songwriter is to share a show with someone 10 years or so younger than you who is, by far, a better songwriter, singer, and performer than you ever were, ever will be, or ever thought there could be in someone so young. This happened to me for the first time at Club Passim on December 5, when I had the good fortune (or misfortune, depending on how you look at it) of following Rachael Davis. She blew me clean away in about 20 different ways. I think she’s maybe 19. Maybe. She writes these songs about dreamers and drinkers and Mississippi . . . stuff that no 19 year old from the UP in Michigan thinks about, let alone writes poetic gems about. And her voice . . . like Billie Holiday and Allison Krauss had a love child. Check her out. She’s wicked awesome.”