Listen to the Cyril Davies R&B All-Stars’ first single, ‘Country Line Special’/’Chicago Calling’:
Critics have hailed the Cyril Davies R&B All-Stars as the best British blues band of the early Sixties after the Rolling Stones. The line-up was largely poached from Screaming Lord Sutch’s Savages in 1962 by Leadbelly-inspired harp player/singer Davies after he left Blues [...]
Friday nights at the Marquee were just amazing! When you walked in, there would be this bank of fog from people smoking and it was packed to the rafters. It couldn’t happen now, because obviously, smoking would be banned and you wouldn’t be able to get the amount of people into a club like that. [...]
In 1964, my father wanted me to go to university, but I didn’t because I was fascinated by the blossoming blues and rock scene. I couldn’t play an instrument, but I wanted to be a journalist. I was lucky because one of my father’s colleagues, Bob Baker, was the managing director of a company called [...]