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EB Davis

"I just fell in love with that music."

EB Davis was born in 1945 in the Delta town of Elaine, Arkansas and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. In the sixties he moved to New York where he spend many years performing before moving to Germany. When EB Davis was about fourteen, he left Arkansas and the country-life behind and moved to Memphis, which at that time was truly the home of the blues. In Memphis, EB Davis met Eugene Goldston. He owned the 521 Club in Booklyn and EB Davis moved to New York to work for him. EB and the Soulgroovers soon became one of the most important touring bands of the soul and blues era. Regularly touring with and supporting people like Rufus Thomas, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes, Ray Charles and B.B. King. Members of the band later becoming part of James Brown’s JBs and the Isaac Hayes Movement. After the band break up, EB Davis started singing with The Drifters and worked with them in Europe for the first time. One thing lead to another and from there came the "Radio Kings" and then "The Superband". EB Davis has more than 19 recordings to his name and can be heard on numerous other recordings as a guest; a career of more than 7000 concerts in more as 60 different countries. He has been invited to give lectures and seminars on the history of the blues and is the only bluesman to appear at the Posnan (Poland) and Bratislava (Slovakia) State Opera Houses. He has appeared in five movies to which he contributed songs to the soundtrack including The Innocent with Anthony Hopkins and his music has been covered by other artists such as the great Guitar Crusher and Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones. EB Davis is a yearly hit at many of the major festivals of Europe and America, where he recently played the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas.

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