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CeDell Davis

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CeDell Davis was born in 1927 in Helena, Mississippi. As a child, he learned to play blues guitar. When he was nine years old, he contracted severe polio. As a result, he could no longer use his right hand, so he had to re-think playing the guitar. That?s why he now plays left-handed and upside down, using a table knife as a slide. Robert Palmer wrote about CeDell's music:

The knife-handle on the strings produces uneven pressure, which results in a welter of metal-stress harmonic transients and a singular tonal plasticity. Some people who here CeDell?s playing for the first time think it?s out of tune, but it would be more accurate to say that he plays in an atlernative tuning, because the way he hears and plays intervals and chords is consistent and systematic.



Here is a video of CeDell performing ?Grandma Got Mad? in the early 1980s.

Full post as published by Minor Wisdom on April 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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