It’s a crazy and chaotic world inside Stuart Davis’ head. Step inside, and you may not come out alive. He didn’t.

Folk singer and Maintenance Shop regular Stuart Davis will be holding his CD release party for “The Late Stuart Davis” on Saturday. This release is a sort of special one for Davis.

“It’s a live album, recorded in Florida,” he says. “That’s `gator country’ to us Yankees. It was in Orlando actually, that I recorded it.”

But there has to be something actually different this time around. Davis has done live records before. His album “16 Nudes” was actually recorded at the M-Shop.

“The important thing is that it’s all new songs and it’s live – solo acoustic,” Davis says.

Ah, okay – live, acoustic, songs that have never been released before. That actually sounds like the album a certain ex-Fugee put out early this summer, a fact of which Davis was unaware.

“Wow! That’s cool, man,” he remarks. “Well, I like Lauryn Hill. But I don’t have that record. I don’t actually own any CDs or have a CD player so that reduces my experience with popular culture.”

Logging from 150 to 200 shows annually, Davis doesn’t find much reason to purchase a lot of records.

“I don’t ever have anything to play it in, and I’m on the road all year long, and I don’t listen to any music when I’m in my car so it doesn’t make much sense,” he says.

But what does a folk musician do to pass the time when barreling down the long and lonesome highway?

“I put earplugs in, actually and listen to my breathing,” Davis says. “You should try it sometime, it’s really cool. You do that for twelve hours for a few weeks on end . it really expands the interiors.”

Interiors well-expanded, Davis says he came up with a new game-plan for this album.

“My strategy was to die, hoping my death might increase record sales and interest – a pattern I’ve noticed has worked for others,” he says.

Davis quickly notes that his live performances have not lost any of their luster – even though he’s lost his life.

“You’d think the show would lose some energy, but it actually rocks harder than hell,” he says. “You get so much more focused in intensity because you’re not distracted by all the rise-and-fall phenomena that beleaguer the living. You know, do I have to take a shit? Am I hungry? Oh, I want to have sex with that person. I need to sleep. All those things . boom! They’re gone and now I’m focused 100 percent on nothing but rock.”

Deceased Davis still understands the power of an attractive automobile, though. His infamous tour van has been replaced by a more potent mode of transport.

“I have been driving a Ford Escort station wagon,” he says. “I don’t need to state the obvious, but it’s one of the sexiest cars out there. Women get pregnant just when I drive by `em.”

Spreading your seed throughout the country isn’t as great as it may seem, Davis remarks.

“It’s cool, but it’s also a liability to have people getting pregnant all over the place,” he explains. “I’m changing the birthrate of the Western world.”

Davis is known for his very loyal following and says he is always ready to come back and make his mark on this town.

“A lot of weird shit goes down in Ames,” he says. “A lot of great memories: Shaving all those people’s heads at that show, snorting cocaine off of hookers’ tits at the flotilla.”

While the first event is actually on record as occurring, nothing can be said for many of the stories Davis has about his times in Ames.

“One time I dressed up and posed as a cop for two days and arrested unwitting citizens of Ames for imaginary crimes that they had transacted in previous lifetimes,” he said. “I called myself the `Karma Cop.’ “

But seriously, Davis says that he is actually quite fond of Ames, despite throwing a few residents in a metaphysical jail cell.

“It’s a great time every time I come through. I gotta love it – it’s kinda like home away from home,” he says. “But I’ve never been to Ames before when I was dead, so this is really a new experience for me.”

The M-Shop show starts at 9 p.m. Saturday with opening act Katie Todd. Tickets cost $8 for students and $10 for the public.