THE greatest person to play the Blues I ever heard was the man on my first ever Blues record I bought. An EP (I couldn't afford an LP. It was Country Line Special by Cyril Davies and his Rhythm and Blues All Stars. I don't care whether there have been better players, singers, or people with darker skin and harder lives. From him, Alexis Korner, John Mayall and others I'm sure others will know the specifics of comes pretty well everything we're talking about. All the British Blues Men and the resurrected Americans of preceding periods. If anything is wrong with Hugh's conribution to it all. I would say his voice is a bit on the weak side.
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