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Cyril Davies (Denham (Buckinghamshire), 23 januari 1932 – Londen, 7 januari 1964) was een Britse bluesmuzikant (gitaar, mondharmonica). Hij zong en speelde op een 12-snarige gitaar, maar staat vooral bekend om zijn mondharmonica. Davies, samen met Alexis Korner en John Mayall, wordt beschouwd als een van de vaders van de Europese blues. Aan zijn carrière kwam een abrupt einde door zijn ...
20 de sept. de 2023 · And the real progenitors of the homegrown British blues movement were Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies. Korner led Blues Incorporated (launched in 1961); the next year, singer-harmonica player Cyril Davies left the group to start His Rhythm & Blues Allstars. The Allstars released but one record in their short time together, R&B From the Marquee.
In 1963 Davies struck out on his own and formed the Cyril Davies R&B All-Stars, which at one point featured future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. The band quickly became a top live act, and may have gone on to larger success in the British Invasion, but fate intervened: Davies became ill with pleurisy late in 1963 and died in January 1964 at the age of 31.
The Cyril Davies R&B All-Stars remain an impressive footnote in the history of British blues, however, for their handful of recordings, including "Country Line Special," "Preachin' the Blues," and a hard-rocking rendition of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away." They never recorded an album, but their songs appear on numerous anthologies including: A ...
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Other articles where Cyril Davies is discussed: British blues: …England) and the harmonica player Cyril Davies (b. 1932, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England—d. January 7, 1964, England), who played together in Blues Incorporated and passed on the influence of such heroes of Chicago’s urban electric blues as Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf to a generation of younger musicians.
