Headline : The Godfathers Of British Blues: Cyril Davies And Alexis Korner

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Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner are the Godfathers of the British blues scene. They were an inspiration, and a great help to many young blues fans and aspiring musicians during the late 1950s and early 1960s. After leaving school at 16, Davies worked as a panel beater at a garage in Alperton Middlesex, to the west of London in the early 1950s. That’s where he met an aspiring musician by the name of Brian Knight.

According to Knight, who later formed his own band, Blues by Six, in the early 60s, “It started with Cyril and Alexis playing acoustic at the Roundhouse pub on the corner of Brewer Street and Wardour Street uptown. It was called the Roundhouse Blues and Barrelhouse Club. This was before 1956. I think they parted company for a while. Cyril stayed running the Roundhouse, which was quite famous in its day. They had people like Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Speckled Red. All sorts of blues guys used to come up there and play – Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, included.”

Cyril was in the early days a banjo and harmonica player, who was influenced by Little Walter. Cyril formed Blues Incorporated with Alexis and, as Brian Knight recalls, “There was Jack Bruce on bass, a guy called Spike Heatley on bass, they had Charlie Watts on drums, Ginger Baker on drums at one time. Jazz drummers, mainly; it was formed from a nucleus of jazz people, which you don’t think of Jack Bruce as but he was. He was a double bass player – they came from the jazz idiom rather than the rock’n’roll idiom.”

Blues Incorporated were the house band at the Ealing Club, that Davies and Korner set up, but it was less than salubrious according to Knight, “Clubs were dingy little holes in those days. You go down the steps on the outside and the door’s on the left-hand side and then you go in a little hallway and then they took the money further down the hallway and then, as you went in, you could either do a right and went to the bar or you went straight on and went into where the music was played.

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