September 27, 2017(2017-09-27) (aged 91) Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.
Genres
Delta blues
Occupation(s)
Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)
Vocals, guitar, harmonica
Years active
1953–2017
Labels
Fat Possum Records
Formerly of
Robert Nighthawk, Col. Bruce Hampton
Musical artist
Ellis CeDell Davis (June 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017)[1] was an American blues guitarist and singer. He was most notable for his distinctive style of guitar playing. Davis played guitar using a butter knife in his fretting hand in a manner similar to slide guitar, resulting in what The New York Times critic Robert Palmer called "a welter of metal-stress harmonic transients and a singular tonal plasticity".[2]
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^Smittle, Stephanie (September 28, 2017). "CeDell Davis remembered". Arkansas Times.
Ellis CeDellDavis (June 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American blues guitarist and singer. He was most notable for his distinctive style of guitar...
Vaudeville Etiquette – Debutantes & Dealers – 2014 CeDellDavis – Last Man Standing – 2015 CeDellDavis – Even The Devil Gets The Blues – 2016 Buffalo Summer...
– David Earle Johnson (Landslide Records) 1995 – The Best of CeDellDavis – CeDellDavis (Fat Possum Records) 2000 – The Flower & the Knife – Kevn Kinney...
Dream 2008 Live With others 1987 Arkansas, Bruce Hampton 1994 CedellDavis, CeDellDavis 1999 Beauty and the Bloodsucker, Eugene Chadbourne 2003 The Grease...
used a knife, such as Blind Willie Johnson (pocket- or penknife) and CeDellDavis (butterknife). Duane Allman used a glass Coricidin medicine bottle. Pink...
played Delta blues and Chicago blues in acoustic and electric settings. CeDellDavis Delta Blind Billy David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915, Shaw, Mississippi...
Cassie Davis (born 1987), Australian singer-songwriter Catherine Davis (1924–2002), American poet Cathy Davis (born 1959), American boxer CeDellDavis (1926–2017)...
Star, Dies at 68". The New York Times. Pareles, Jon (October 1, 2017). "CeDellDavis, Bluesman Who Played Guitar With a Knife, Dies at 91". The New York Times...
5, and record with solo artists like Arkansas Delta Blues guitarist CeDellDavis and singer-songwriter Dave Matthews, playing Hammond organ on Matthews'...
(Corrosion of Conformity) 23 – Charles Bradley (68), American soul singer 27 CeDellDavis (91), American blues guitarist Joy Fleming (72), German pop singer Hiromi...
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Rhondels) September 23 – Charles Bradley, 68, soul singer September 27 – CeDellDavis, 91, blues guitarist September 30 – Tom Paley, 89, folk guitarist and...
(Jaatishwar), heart attack. Raymond Buckland, 83, English Wiccan writer. CeDellDavis, 90, American blues musician. Joy Fleming, 72, German singer (Eurovision...
(b. 1938) Alfred Stepan, political scientist (b. 1936) September 27 CeDellDavis, blues singer and musician (b. 1926) Hugh Hefner, magazine publisher...
multiple names: authors list (link) Lorna Benson (11 August 2006). "Harry Davis – a life of accomplishment". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved 31 May 2007...
Bruno Canfora, Buck Hill, Buddy Bregman, Buddy Greco, Casey Jones, CeDellDavis, Charles "Bobo" Shaw, Charlie Tagawa, Chris Murrell, Chuck Berry, Chuck...
2017). June 6 – Kristian Bergheim, Norwegian saxophonist (died 2010). 9 CeDellDavis, American guitarist and singer (died 2017). Jimmy Gourley, American guitarist...
Mike Carr, English organist, pianist and vibraphonist (born 1937). 27 – CeDellDavis, American guitarist and singer (born 1926). 6 – Lou Gare, English saxophonist...
Davis. January 1995. p. 18. "Mega Man X". Nintendo Power. No. 50. Nintendo of America. July 1993. ISSN 1041-9551. GamePro staff (August 1993). "CES Showstoppers"...
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