CYRIL DAVIES & his R&B ALLSTARS. "COUNTRY LINE SPECIAL" PYE INTERNATIONAL,1963
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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, SingleCountry: UK Released: Apr 1963 Genre: Blues Style: Chicago Blues
Tracklist
A Country Line Special B Chicago CallingCompanies 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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