“Aaron Davis is an essential force in the Americana roots music scene in Wyoming” (JH Community Radio, KHOL). Wyoming-based, Kentucky native Aaron Davis stages his songs with poetic amplitude and a deep well of old-time and modern sonic textures—voice, acoustic & resonator & lap steel guitars, open back banjo, harmonica, mandolin, foot percussion, and tailor-made phrase sampling and analog simulations. Aaron is chiefly known as co-founder of alt-country/alt-folk band Screen Door Porch, for the eclectic quartet Aaron Davis & the Mystery Machine, and as studio engineer-producer-session player at his own Three Hearted Recording Studio. Aaron’s shows are versed in both improvisations and intricate arrangements, working the lesser-worn corners of the American musical fabric through an unconventional lens, with a down-home fusion of alt-country, groovy slide blues, story folk, gypsy grass, Western swing, and funky roots rock—often bridged with stories of unsung characters. He has been fortunate to share bills with many of his heroes including Wilco, Willie Nelson, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Buddy Guy, Sam Bush, Justin Townes Earle, Brian Wilson, Steve Earle, Grace Potter, Sarah Jarosz, and James McMurtry.

Nearly two decades of touring the country and staying true to the write-and-record troubadour sensibility has led the press to describe Aaron as a “truly phenomenal songwriter” with “a particularly standout approach that mixes poetry, groove and roughness” (Lonestar Time), including "a searing slide guitar" (Country Weekly) and “a combination that goes down like top-shelf bourbon” (Austin Chronicle). Recognizing Aaron’s eleven-album discography, he was one of two composers in Wyoming to be awarded a Performing Arts Music Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts—“a merit-based honor for an artist’s work in their field.” Most recently, Aaron embarked on once-in-a-lifetime recording endeavor—The WyoFolk Project—in which he produced-recorded-mixed a compilation album featuring fourteen of Wyoming's celebrated songwriters performing new works at his studio. His twelfth release, Medicine EP (2023), features four new original songs recorded in Austin, Texas.

The range of Aaron’s original material has been chronicled across twelve albums with four different bands amongst solo ventures and side projects. 2021 EP, Catalyst, prominently features The Mystery Machine, which Wyoming Public Radio described as, "The Band vibe going throughout." Aaron's 2019 album, The Meander, billows and breathes with both minimalist compositions and ensemble intricacy, showcasing over a dozen regional musicians that Davis has toured and collaborated with including Wyoming hero Jalan Crossland. Self-taught on every instrument he plays, Aaron continues to develop a musical vocabulary through experimentation with tunings, song structure, storytelling and colorful depictions of the characters in his songs.

Alongside his wife and musical partner Seadar Rose, Davis’ decade with Screen Door Porch (2007-2017) was a prolific and significant era. The band became a national touring act, establishing their “grooving electrified porch music” as a household name in the region, eventually announcing a hiatus in 2017. They released four studio albums—Screen Door Porch (2010), The Fate & The Fruit (2012), Modern Settler (2015), and Pay it Forward (2017)—reaching an international audience via the Top 25 of the Europe’s Americana Radio Chart and numerous “Best Albums of the Year” lists from New York City to Oregon, United Kingdom to Italy and beyond. According to Vanguard Records executive and critic Bill Bentley, “Screen Door Porch transformed roots music into something much larger—a down home good time vibe,” while The Austin Chronicle noted that the duo “lends an easy Western flair to their more prominent native influences of North Carolina and Kentucky, a combination that goes down as smoothly as top-shelf bourbon.”

As a solo artist, Aaron’s songs have landed in various projects including films, commercials, documentaries, podcasts, network television, spoken word projects, even yoga conferences. This has led to theater, club and festival stages including South by Southwest, Treefort Music Fest, Targhee Bluegrass Fest, Yellowstone Songwriter Festival, Center Theater (Jackson Hole Center for the Arts), WYO Theater, Swallow Hill Music Theater, Magic City Blues Fest, JacksonHoleLive, Sawtooth Music Festival, and the first and only Wyoming band (SDP) to record sessions at Paste Magazine’s Daytrotter studio.

In a full-page article “Touring, the Wyoming Way,” The New York Times pointed out Aaron & Seadar’s “entrepreneurial gumption in founding the multi-act WYOmericana Caravan Tour, a traveling concert circus.” The grassroots tour collective of Wyoming songwriters has made waves across the Mountain West for eight years (2013-2017, 2020-22), featuring as many as a dozen musicians on stage. The award-winning documentary WYOMERICANA depicts the inaugural tour in 2013, which unites and exposes top-notch original acts in Wyoming. Screen Door Porch's contributions from both a musical perspective and as proponents of the broader Wyoming musical community were recognized by state government, which selected the band to be ambassadors to the state's music scene through a national ad campaign and short film. 

Davis is also a freelance writer and photographer, founder of juke joint blues band Boondocks, curator-founder of the intimate concert series Songwriter's Alley, and makes records with folks in the log cabin space of Three Hearted Recording. Recent studio collaborations as a recording, mixing, and mastering engineer include Nikki Sixx, Carly King, Abby Webster, Jalan Crossland, Alysia Kraft, Sarah Sample, Jason Tyler Burton, Shawn Hess, Inland Isle, Matt Herron, Christian Wallowing Bull, Low Water String Band, Jordan Smith, Coyote Queen, The Minor Keys, Isaac Hayden, N8 Jones, and Quinn Cerovski. 

As a writer and photographer—currently with Jackson Hole Buckrail (2017-) and formerly as the weekly music columnist for Planet Jackson Hole (2005-2017)—Aaron has been fortunate to interview and photograph some of the greatest artists of our time: John Prine, Taj Mahal, Dr. John, Bela Fleck, Maceo Parker, Del McCoury, Michael Franti, John Perry Barlow, Mickey Hart, Warren Haynes, Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips, Robert Cray, Nikki Sixx, Lyle Lovett, Buddy Guy, Ruthie Foster, Grace Potter, Mark Farina, Ray Benson, Jalan Crossland, and scores of colorful local bands. In addition to writing about music, Aaron has contributed several cover stories, news pieces, travel and outdoor narratives, and photo essays as well as reviews of albums, concerts and movies. His pieces have also appeared in Jackson Hole Review, The Oregonian, The Business Journal, Jambase.com, The Statesman Journal, and Cascade Policy Institute.