[1] He eventually left home and settled in Florida, where he continued to play the blues in the Miami area and worked in orange groves and sawmills to make ends meet.

[citation needed] Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Davis traveled with medicine shows and played with blues musicians such as Pinetop Perkins and Ike Turner.

Davis also played harmonica on some of the recordings made by Eddie Kirkland for Trix in 1972 at a studio in Mink Hollow, New York.

In 1990, a local disc jockey, Doug Price, was getting a haircut at a barber shop in Poughkeepsie, New York, when he heard rumors that Davis was sitting in at a blues jam at the Side Track Inn.

Subsequently, Imus invited them to perform live in the studio regularly on his program, at WFAN Radio in New York City.

The New York Daily News proclaimed the next day, "Little Sammy Davis and Fred Scribner score on the Imus show".

Imus, in his trademark style, later quipped that Davis had "more harmonicas than teeth" and that Fred looked like a manager of an Ace Hardware Store.

Around this time, a former guitar student of Scribner's, John Rocklin, brought Davis to Woodstock, New York, to see Levon Helm, the former drummer and vocalist of The Band.

Helm started holding concerts at his home; recordings of some of these performances were released on the album Midnight Ramble Sessions, Volume One.

[6][7] The Levon Helm Band starring Little Sammy Davis with Fred Scribner on guitar performed on the Imus Show, promoting the release of Midnight Ramble Sessions, Volume One.