Washita Love Child

No one played like Jesse Ed Davis. One of the most sought-after guitarists of the late 1960s and ‘70s, Davis appeared alongside John Lennon and Mick Jagger, B.B. King and Bob Dylan and contributed to dozens of major records by artists like Johnny Cash, Taj Mahal and Cher.

Davis was more than just a sought-after guitarist. He transformed our idea of what rock music could be and, crucially, who could make it. At a time when few other Indigenous artists appeared on concert stages, in a century often depicted as a period of decline for Native Americans, Davis demonstrated new possibilities for Native American people.

Weaving together more than a hundred interviews with Davis’s bandmates, family members, friends and peers–among them Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and Robbie Robertson–Washita Love Child powerfully reconstructs Davis’s extraordinary life and career, cementing his legacy for generations to come.