Singer/songwriter (and sometimes very loud rocker)
Stuart Davis manages to tell stories about people experiencing whatever flaws they have and sometimes overcoming them - and he makes it interesting and sometimes scary and sometimes sad or beautiful.
On the self titled album "Stuart Davis Stuart Davis" also known as "Shiney Naked" because Stuart is painted silver on the cover, there's some wild stories about wild characters, like this guy:
I've got a birth defect
My heart's inverted
It took all my karma
and reversed it
No matter what I do, people spill compassion
I sin and sin, and nothing happens
And his album "Bell" from last year was mostly about female characters.
It seems like anyone who has at least once done the folk style songs end up as superior storytelling rockers.
There's a portrait of a drunkard that has some of the best straightforward lines:
Last night someone drove these balls around
Last night someone swung these fists
I woke up in piss
I woke up in pain
with a lot of uniforms shouting out my name
Oh, no
No, no
Forgive me
I cursed with someone else's tongue
Forgive me
I pointed someone else's gun
Forgive me
I came with someone else's [edited]
Doppelganger, body donor
Doppelganger, body donor