Walter Davis (blues)
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Walter Davis was an American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter who was one of the most prolific blues recording artists from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. He was unrelated to the jazz pianis
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Roosevelt Sykes
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Roosevelt Sykes was an American blues musician, also known as "the Honeydripper."
Walter Davis (blues)
…born on a farm in Grenada, Mississippi. He ran away from home at 13 or 14 years of age, landing in St. Louis, Missouri. He started singing with pianist Roosevelt Sykes and guitarist Henry Townsend. Davis made his first recordings, including the successful "M&O Blues", in 1930, as a singer accompanied by Sykes on piano…
Roosevelt Sykes at the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival