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Thread #170354   Message #4127202
Posted By: Tony Rees
24-Nov-21 - 11:29 PM
Thread Name: Live recordings - Tony Rees archive
Subject: RE: Live recordings - Tony Rees archive
Next from the archive ... some British folk-blues from Dave Jeffs, excellent singer, guitarist and harmonica player originally from London (my guess) but resident in Oxford from at least the mid 60s to mid 70s; eventually moved to Ibiza where he was seemingly much loved and respected as a musician up to his relatively early death in 2013 (a number of concerts there in his memory since 2013, plus 2 tribute pages on FaceBook entitled "Dave on my Mind" and "Dave Jeffs ACMS").

My tape, uncirculated for 46 years since it was made is entitled "Dave Jeffs (UK acoustic blues performer), Oxford, 1975" and is now up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrXTCQOBoi8 - see accompanying notes for more details. This seems to be the only extant recording of his acoustic persona apart from one track on a charity EP recorded in Oxford in 1965, so he had obviously been performing for a decade by the time I encountered him playing around Oxford and no doubt more widely afield. There are a very few much later recordings of him on YouTube in Ibiza with an electric band such as this one, recorded in the 2000s, but not much... RIP Dave, a man who so clearly loved his music and played it for 40+ years.