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- Jesse Ed Davis was born on September 21, 1944 in Norman, Oklahoma, USA. He is known for Incident à Oglala (1992), Scrapple (1998) and Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World (2017). He was married to Kelly Davis. He died on June 22, 1988 in Venice, California, USA.
- SpouseKelly Davis (his death)
- A well-respected session guitarist, who played for three of the former Beatles (John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) on their 1970s solo records.
- Was a full-blooded Kiowa Indian.
- Was present for some of John Lennon and Harry Nilsson's infamous drunken outings in Los Angeles, during the mid-Seventies. Davis' girlfriend actually summoned the police one night, after Lennon and Davis got into a fight when they'd both been drinking.
- At the time of his death, he was the guitarist for John Trudell's groundbreaking and unique Native American poetry rock band.
- Struggled with alcoholism most of his adult life.
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