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British Blues Harp Pioneer. The Recordings of Cyril Davies. The earliest released recording was supplied by Brian Knight for the CD Knights of the Blues Table, KC Moan (Viceroy 54189-2). Cyril was recorded privately playing and singing this at his home in 1954. Cyril was recorded playing banjo with Steve Lane's Southern Stompers in Aug 1955 ...
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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.
Chris Barber's Memories of Cyril Davies. Chris Barber has just issued a double CD of unreleased tracks from his career starting back in the 1950s. "Alexis Korner is often hailed as the grandfather of the British blues scene, but if that's the case then Chris Barber must be hailed as the great-grandfather. For Chris put together the band with ...
Cyril Davies was probably the best blues harmonica player in England in the early-to-mid 1960s. He was also the inadvertent midwife of the Rolling Stones: it was Davies who pressed his then-bandleader, Alexis Korner, to make a kid named Jagger a full band member after the kid gave an exuberant reading of Chuck Berry's 'Around and Around' on an audition night.
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.
Cyril Davies was a fine singer and an authentic electric harp player, and a Blues afficionado who did a great deal to foster the British Blues Boom of the early 60s.. Cyril learnt guitar and banjo as a kid, but when he heard Little Walter on records, he switched to the harp. He joined Chris Barber's band playing American jazz and blues alongside guitarist Alexis Korner and, as part of the set ...
