Skunkmello

The album was produced by John Platania. On many tracks Davis adopted the persona of "Samuel Skunkmello", a thief and lazy teller of tales. "Maggie Campbell Blues" is a cover of the Tommy Johnson song. "Hooking Bull at the Landing" was inspired by a favorite phrase of Davis's father, Ossie Davis. "Uncle Tom Is Dead (Milk 'n' Cookies Remix)" is a remixed version of the 2004 NPR "Song of the Year". ==Critical reception==

The Gazette wrote that "Davis is one of the finest contemporary practitioners of traditional blues and old-time musical styles." The Times Colonist noted that "Davis has been playing country blues so long that even his newly-penned original songs conjure up the music's 19th-century origins in the American South." DownBeat determined that the power of the music "rests in its awareness of the poise and dignity that characterized his ancestors in ungenerous white America and the pointed feelings it forces on his creative imagination." The Province opined that "'The Chocolate Man' sounds like vintage Mississippi John Hurt, while 'Blues in the Midnight Hour' could be a Norah Jones hit." ==Track listing==