McCartney Times

What do John Lennon’s take on ‘Stand By Me’, Bob Dylan’s ‘Watching the River Flow’ and Jackson Brown’s ‘Doctor My Eyes’ all have in common? Answer: they all feature the fretwork of a beloved session guitarist who is almost entirely unknown today. Join us as we dig into the remarkable career of Jesse Ed Davis, one of the most sought-after guitarists of the late 1960s.

Once you learn of Davis, you hear him cropping up everywhere. He’s there on the solo albums of three out of four Beatles. He recorded with Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson Bryan Ferry. He even helped craft Rod Stewart’s number one single, ‘Tonight’s The Night’. As well as being an essential cog in the classic rock machine, his life followed the same tragic pattern as many of counterculture’s biggest names: the young prodigy who becomes dangerously addicted to drugs, only to die from a heroin overdose.

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