Lost and Found: Ron Davies, “It Ain’t Easy”

Originally written, recorded and ushered in by little-known Music City Troubadour Ron Davies, later covered by UK rocker pups, Three Dog Night and the celebrated Thin White Duke, David Bowie –Davies’ take on “It Ain’t Easy” is a long neglected, one of a kind classic.

Ron Davies’ debut long player Silent Song Through The Land—recorded in 1970, after Davies was signed by A&M Records at age twenty—is made up of nine blue-ribbon cuts – each one original and full spirited. First single and lead-off track, “It Ain’t Easy” is easily given highest rank amongst the doctors and nursemaids here at the asylum- a cut aided on the 88s by Leon Russell, Davies’ voice quivers with the gentle ache of an evangelist, while the rolling thunder refrain rumbles with rejoice, taking wing: “It ain't easy, it ain't easy / It ain't easy to get to heaven / When youre going down,”

Ron Davies, acoustic guitar/vocals; Leon Russell, piano; Mike Deasy, lead guitar; Chad Stuart, bass; Jim Keltner, Drums; Merry Clayton, Venetta Fields, Clydie King, background voices.

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