Art Davis (4)

Movie actor and western swing fiddler. Born Aubrey Davis, he would subsequently be credited under the name of Art Davis for all of his performing and recording ventures, a cornucopia of Western swing enterprises that included associations with Bill Boyd, Gene Autry, and Tommy Allsup. Davis not only plays music but does a bit of acting, wooden as it is, in at least half a dozen Westerns from the '30s period. . The fiddler's life as a musician continued long after Hollywood. Fronted his own groups out of the town of Miami, OK, into the '50s. His group Art Davis & the Rhythm Riders cut several sides for the Bullet label. Davis' interpretation of the "Lone Star Rag" has become a fiddle standard.