BLUESY troubadour Ethan Daniel Davidson takes the stage with his band at Talking Heads in Southampton on Saturday.

After leaving his home in Detroit at the age of 14, he has since lived a globetrotting life, learning and playing music.

Currently residing in Alaska, Ethan was born in a commune in Lansing, Michigan, and put up for adoption in Detroit.

After going on the road with guitar in hand, he eventually studied at Harvard and the University of Michigan and has lived just about everywhere in the USA, finally 'settling' in a cabin in Wiseman, Alaska.

Ethan has made four independently produced albums and has spent the past three years touring all over the USA, playing more than 400 shows in just under 36 months.

He has opened for artists like Michelle Shocked, Robert Bradley and Sonic Youth and has also been a featured artist at the New England Folk Festival, Seattle Songwriter Showcase, and Tampa's Tropical Heatwave Festival.

His latest album, Don Quixote de Suburbia, is a journey through American popular culture, from folk to gospel, jazz, country, blues, rock and punk.

Often overtly political and at other times purely romantic, Ethan has a habit of wearing his heart on his sleeve.

"I was always a big fan of The Beatles," he said. "Their music got to be beyond entertainment, they were expressing a fuller range of human problems and had more of a social consciousness. Audiences aren't used to hearing that these days, so they don't know how to handle it."

Tickets £5. Contact 023 8067 8446.