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Larry Davis
Sign in to saveAmerican electric Texas blues and soul blues musician (1936-1994)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 49
Top works
- Procreate for IPad : The Complete User Guide for Beginners on How to Master Procreate on the IPad
- Procreate for Beginners : A Quick Guide for Beginners and Artists to Use Procreate and Apple Pencil on the IPad
- Young and Dreaming
- Re-Education of the African American Child
- America's Conduct - Photo Edition
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-26
- Active to
- 1991-09-28
bebopclassicalcool jazzfunkhard bopjazz
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 24,789
- Total plays
- 59,702
Tags
bluesClassic Bluesamericanguitarmale vocalists
Anyone who associates "Texas Flood" only with Stevie Ray Vaughan has never auditioned Larry Davis' version. Davis debuted on vinyl in 1958 with the song, his superlative Duke Records original remaining definitive to this day despite Vaughan's impassioned revival many years down the road. Davis was born December 4, 1936 in Kansas City, MO and grew up in Little Rock, AR, giving up the drums to play bass. Forging an intermittent partnership with guitarist Fenton Robinson during the mid-'50s <a hr
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Davis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kansas City
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Larry Davis.jpg
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of birth
- 1936-12-04
- date of death
- 1994-04-19
- cause of death
- cancer
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
- Commons category
- Larry Davis (blues musician)
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