Cyril Davies & his R&B All Stars. "Country Line Special / Chicago Calling" 1963
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Jun 4, 2016 Sold Date
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Cyril Davies And His Rhythm And Blues All Stars ?– Country Line Special

Label: Pye International ?– 7N.25194 Series: R&B Series – Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single 
Country: UK Released: Apr 1963 Genre: Blues Style: Chicago Blues

Tracklist

A Country Line Special B Chicago Calling

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – Pye Studios

Credits

  • Bass Guitar – Ricky Brown (2)
  • Drums – Carlo Little
  • Guitar – Bernie Watson
  • Harmonica – Cyril Davies
  • Keyboards – Nicky Hopkins
  • Producer – Peter Knight Jnr.
  • Vocals – Long John Baldry
  • Written-By – Cyril Davies

Notes

Recorded in the UK at Pye's Marble Arch Studio on 27th February 1963. Released April 1963. 
(1.45.1194A & 1.45.1194B Minstrel Music) 

A seminal blues single which helped open the floodgates to bring the UK's Rhythm & Blues scene to a wider audience in the Spring of 1963. 

Cyril Davies' work with the All-Stars, along with that of his early skiffle/blues partnership with Alexis Korner in the Southern Stompers and Blues Incorporated, was a fundamental inspiration to so many rhythm & blues musicians who have now become legends in their own right. In March 1962 Davies and Korner re-opened the Ealing Jazz Club as The Ealing Club, becoming a regular venue for Blues Incorporated, in which many aspiring young blues musicians could guest, interact and develop their techniques. 

Whilst Korner's taste was open to blues fusion & experimentation Davies was a Chicago-style blues purist at heart. The two parted ways and the Cyril Davies All-Stars was formed in November 1962 with members from Screaming Lord Sutch's band, the Savages, plus Jimmy Page on lead guitar- later replaced by the enigmatic peroxide-haired Bernie Watson prior to their Pye recording deal. 

Pye's launch of their R & B label was greatly assisted by this single, aided by the band's growing popularity at key pub & club gigs and a regular Thursday-night appearance from early in 1963 at the Marquee, fronted by South African girl singers The Velvettes and with The Rolling Stones filling the set-breaks. 

Cyril shone the torch and the All-Stars lit a path to a whole mess o' blues. No self-respecting R & B geek should be without a recording of 'Country Line Special'.


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