Either way he is one talented SOB. Patrick is the son of a guitar player and music shop owner, Rusty Davis.

He woke up every morning to his dad's Marshall Half Stack on 11. He realized guitars were the way to get girls and cash money, so naturally he learned to play. By the age of 17 he knew enough songs to get his first gig, which turned out to be a good thing because he learned that people who drink like songs they know- and he knew four whole cover tunes (which included the rare classics American Pie and Brown Eyed Girl). So he just played them over and over again to complete a full 3 hour set, which lead to free beer every night and of course meeting more girls.

On a serious note, he also realized he had found his calling but didn't want to upset his mom or get a real job until he had to, so he spent 5 long, good years marinating his talents as a University of South Carolina Gamecock earning (barely) a degree in History, but more importantly an education in watching a lot of sports between the classes he actually went to and the gigs he played each night.

Shortly after graduating, he and his new wife of four days made the move to Nashville. Over the next several years, he put 150K miles on his pick up truck driving to and from gigs in the Carolinas back to Nashville to work on his songwriting. He played anywhere he could get paid or drink for free and made some good friends along the way. In 2005, Patrick penned 2 co-writes on Texan Cory Morrow's "Nothing Left To Hide" album (and received his first BMI royalty check for a 9-week #1 song on the Texas music charts- the "AH HA" moment) and then followed that up with 4 tracks on Pat Green's 2006 major label release "Cannonball," including the critically acclaimed single "Dixie Lullaby." 2010 finds Patrick Davis in the midst of diligently writing, producing and recording music for both himself and others, including his full-length LP "Numbers" to be released this summer. Davis' song "Where I'm From", written about his home town of Camden,SC was released to country radio by rising country music star Jason Michael Carroll and made it all the way to Country Radio's Top 10. Davis also has the closing track, "Be Wary of a Woman" on Darius Rucker's Platinum Capitol Records release "Learn to Live", which debuted at 1 on the Billboard Country Music Chart. He also has 2 tracks on Pat Green's most recent BNA Records Nashville Release, "What I'm For" and a cut on Jewel's latest release "Lullaby" which has been featured on TV shows So You Think You Can Dance and Jimmy Kimmel.

Patrick has since scaled back his touring itinerary to 50+ headlining shows per year in markets in the Southeast (and proudly has penned the un-official and somewhat offensively titled Gamecock football theme song heard on Sports Radio throughout South Carolina) but has in years past not only toured the Southeast, but much of the country as a support act for Hootie and the Blowfish, Pat Green and other well known acts.

Patrick was signed to EMI Music Publishing in 2006 and contractually he is not allowed to play video games at the house, thus he spends his days crafting songs & has earned double digit songwriting cuts by the aforementioned Carroll, Green, Jewel & Rucker as well as what he claims to be his songwriting career highlight when the legend Guy Clark cut two of the songs they wrote together on his most recent album. Patrick continues to pen tunes with a wide range of artists and writers, including Robert Randolph, Matt Kearney, Julianne Hough, Jason Michael Carroll, Dave Berg, David Wilcox, Radney Foster, Darius Rucker, Pat Green, Jewel, Cory Morrow, Harley Allen, Brett James, Lady Antebellum, Jeffrey Steele, Tim Nichols and many of the top songwriters in Nashville, NY, LA and Texas.

Patrick's 1st properly released album, Chances Are, was produced by Mark Bryan, guitarist for Hootie and the Blowfish and was released independently in late 2003. Before signing his publishing deal in 2006, Patrick played nearly 200 dates each year (and his dad is still the guitar player in his band). Playing music is the only job he has ever had. Except for a brief stint as a live underwear model in the Cool Springs Mall Abercrombie & Fitch store.

Patrick loves the South Carolina Gamecocks, Dallas Cowboys & Atlanta Braves. And his toy poodle named Carly.

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