Cyril Davies EP Radio Sounds
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August 17, 2015
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October 21, 2014
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How many people know that the roots of British R&B can be traced to an ageing, balding, ex-panel beater, named Cyril. Playing together with Alexis Korner as Blues Incorporated, Britain’s first amplified R&B band, Cyril Davies pioneered the music in Britain, setting up the Ealing Club in 1962, where Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Art Wood and Paul Jones regularly joined them on stage. Davies tragically contracted pleurisy in 1963 and after releasing just two singles and an EP, he died in January 1964, two weeks before his 32nd birthday.
These previously unreleased tracks feature vocalist Long John Baldry, who took over the band after Davies’s demise and renamed them The Hoochie Coochie Men, hiring a second vocalist by the name of Rod Stewart. Cyril Davies was on the verge of national recognition; the greatest harmonica player of his time.
SIDE ONE
CHICAGO CALLING
SEE SEE RIDER
SIDE TWO
COUNTRY LINE SPECIAL
HEY ROBERTA
ROLL 'EM PETE
