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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
Respected blues scholar Paul Oliver confirms Cyril’s embrace of the form: “I never met one British blues player who seemed to be remotely like a blues singer in background, approach, or personality, apart from Cyril Davies….It seemed to me that he bridged the impossible gulf between the cultures in a way no other blues-singing Britisher did.”