City shelter system, was produced Off-Broadway in 1990, at the McGinn Cazale Theater. Davis also arranged, performed, and co-wrote the music for an Emmy Award-winning film, To Be a Man. In the fall of 1995, his music was used in the national PBS series, The American Promise. In 2022, Davis wrote and performed Sugarbelly and Other Tales My Father Told Me. The one-man show was presented by Crossroads Theater and performed at the Arthur Laurents Theater in the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Music For the past two decades, Davis has concentrated on writing, recording, and performing music. In the fall of 1995, he released his Red House records debut Stomp Down Rider, an album of a stunning live performance. The album made top lists all over the country, including in the Boston Globe and Pulse magazine. Davis's next album, Call Down the Thunder paid tribute to the blues masters but revealed more of his powerful originals. It too was named a top ten album of the year in the Boston Globe and Pulse. Acoustic Guitar said it was one of the “thirty essential CDs from a new generation of performers”. Davis' third Red House disc, You Don't Know My Mind which includes backing vocals by Olu Dara, explodes with passion and rhythm, and displays Davis' breadth as a composer and powerhouse performer. It was chosen as ‘Blues Album of the Year’ by the Association For Independent Music (formerly NAIRD). The San Francisco Chronicle gave the CD four stars, adding, "Davis' tough, timeless vocals blow through your brain like a Mississippi dust devil." Charles M. Young summed up Davis's take on the blues writing in Playboy magazine: "Davis reminds you that the blues started as dance music. This is blues made for humming along, stomping your foot, feeling righteous in the face of oppression and expressing gratitude to your baby for greasing your skillet." Davis's fourth album was Butt Naked Free, the first of his albums to have been produced by John Platania, former guitarist for Van Morrison. In addition to Platania on electric guitar, it includes musician friends such as Levon Helm (The Band), multi-instrumentalist, Tommy “T-Bone” Wolk (Hall & Oates; Carly Simon, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Band, drummer Gary Burke (Joe Jackson), and acoustic bassist, Mark Murphy (Walt Michael & Co., Vanaver Caravan). The musicians all performed “Waitin’ On the Cards to Fall” from