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Chicago Calling - The Life and Sound of Cyril Davies - D. Todd Allen
D. Todd Allen [+]
Music journalist and scholar
D. Todd Allen has been an avid researcher of popular music for the last twenty years and has contributed to a variety of websites, radio programmes, CBS Sunday Morning television, Mojo and Record Collector magazines, and several documentary films and books on the history of British blues. Todd lives and works in Canada on the beautiful Bay of Fundy coastline.
Description
1959-1961: Chris Barber and the electrification of the blues in Britain; the James Cotton visit inspired Davies and accelerated a metamorphosis that would see his shift away from a twelve-string repertoire to an almost wholesale embrace of the harmonica as his means of musical expression. Davies began to experiment with amplification as he searched for a ‘Chicago sound.’