ndy Cohen has adapted the late Piedmont blues/gospel guitarist/singer, Reverend Gary Davis's musical technique to an eclectic range of music. While he paid tribute to Davis's repertoire with his 1997 album, The Sacred Songs Of Rev. Gary Davis, Cohen has incorporated old Southern music, country blues, ragtime, gospel, old timey and field hollers to his Davis-like acoustic guitar finger-picking. Establishing his career in his native Ohio, Cohen took an ethnomusicologist-like approach to the area's musical roots. He spent countless hours visiting and studying with master blues and folk musicians, learning songs that he subsequently performed at folk festivals and coffeehouses throughout the United States. Since relocating to Memphis, to marry multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Larakin Bryant, in September 1996, Cohen has become one of the Tennessee city's busiest musicians. In addition to performing, with his wife, as a duo, Cohen has served as president of the Beale Street Blues Society and has directed the Kent State Folk Festival. With his wife, he launched an independent record label, Riverlark Mark, to release albums of mostly Southern traditional music. ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide