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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> |
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| name = CeDell Davis |
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| image = CeDell Davis (blues musician).jpg |
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| background = solo_singer |
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1927|06|09|mf=y}} |
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| birth_place = <small>[[Helena, Arkansas]], [[United States]]</small> |
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| death_date = |
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| instrument = [[Human voice|Vocals]], [[guitar]], [[harmonica]] |
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| genre = [[Delta blues]] |
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| occupation = [[Musician]], [[songwriter]] |
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| years_active = 1953-current |
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| label = [[Fat Possum Records]] |
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| associated_acts = [[Robert Nighthawk]] |
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'''CeDell Davis''' (born '''Ellis Davis''', June 9, 1927)<ref name="amg"/> is an [[United States|American]] [[blues]] [[guitarist]] and [[singer]]. |
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Davis is most notable for his distinctive style of guitar playing. Davis plays [[guitar]] using a table knife in his fretting hand in a manner similar to [[slide guitar]], resulting in a welter of metal-stress harmonic transients and a singular tonal [[Plasticity (physics)|plasticity]]. He uses this style out of necessity. When he was 10, he suffered from severe [[polio]] which left him little control over his left hand and restricted use of his right.<ref name="amg">[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p63391/biography|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic biography]</ref> He had been playing guitar prior to his polio and decided to continue in spite of his [[disabled|handicap]], and developed his knife method as the only way he could come up with of still playing guitar. |
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==Career== |
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Davis was born in [[Helena, Arkansas]], [[United States]], where his family worked on a local plantation. He enjoyed [[music]] from a young age, playing [[harmonica]] and [[guitar]] with his childhood friends. |
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Once he sufficiently mastered his variation on [[slide guitar]] playing, Davis began playing in various [[nightclub]]s across the [[Mississippi Delta]] area. He played with [[Robert Nighthawk]] for a ten-year period from 1953 to 1963. While playing in a club in 1957, a police raid caused the crowd to stampede over Davis. Both of his legs were broken in this incident and he was forced to use a [[wheelchair]] since that time. The hardships resulting from his physical handicaps were a major influence in his [[lyrics]] and style of blues playing. |
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Davis moved to [[Pine Bluff, Arkansas]] in the early sixties and continued his artistic work. In recent times, Davis' music has been released by the [[Fat Possum Records]] [[record label|label]] to much [[music journalism|critical]] acclaim. His 1994 [[album]], [[record producer|produced]] by [[Robert Palmer (writer)|Robert Palmer]], ''Feel Like Doin' Something Wrong'', received a 9.0 from [[Pitchfork Media]] who called it "timeless." |
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''The Best Of CeDell Davis'' (1995) was also released, with help from [[Col. Bruce Hampton and The Aquarium Rescue Unit]]. ''The Horror of It All'' followed in 1998. Davis took time away from recording after these releases, and spent the next four years writing and performing. When he returned to the [[recording studio]], he drafted musicians like [[R.E.M.]]'s [[Peter Buck]], R.E.M. sideman [[Scott McCaughey]], [[The Screaming Trees]]' [[Barrett Martin]], [[Brave Combo]]'s Joe Cripps, Thomas Houston Jones and soul keyboardist [[Alex Veley]]. The final results, ''When Lightnin' Struck the Pine'', was released in 2002.<ref name="amg"/> |
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==Discography== |
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*''Feel Like Doin' Something Wrong'' - 1994 |
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*''The Best of CeDell Davis'' – 1995 |
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*''The Horror Of It All'' – 1998 |
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*''When Lightning Struck the Pine'' - 2002 |
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==See also== |
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*[[List of Delta blues musicians]] |
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*[[List of polio survivors]] |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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==External links== |
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*{{Worldcat id|lccn-n94-82559}} |
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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2010}} |
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> |
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| NAME = Davis, Ellis |
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| ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Davis, CeDell |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = [[United States|American]] blues guitarist and singer |
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| DATE OF BIRTH = 9 June 1927 |
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Helena, Arkansas]], [[United States]] |
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| DATE OF DEATH = |
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}} |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Cedell}} |
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[[Category:1927 births]] |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:Delta blues musicians]] |
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[[Category:Electric blues musicians]] |
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[[Category:Blues rock musicians]] |
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[[Category:Contemporary blues musicians]] |
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[[Category:American blues guitarists]] |
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[[Category:Musicians from Arkansas]] |
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[[Category:Fat Possum Records artists]] |
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[[Category:Slide guitarists]] |
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Revision as of 19:51, 3 May 2013
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