A stalwart of WDIA-AM (1070 on the dial) in Memphis, where he was a
disk jockey playing oldies and rhythm and blues music on the 3-6 pm
"drive time" weekday shift; he also would regale his listeners with
selections from the late Rufus Thomas on the "Rufus Thomas All Blues
Saturday" from 6am. From 1994, under his legal name, Preston Moore,
Davis had served as a Shelby County (TN) sheriff's deputy; he was a
U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam Conflict where he had served as a
paratrooper.
