The old man on stage at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton — the guy with the face like a weathered catcher’s mitt, sitting in a wheelchair, fretting his baby-blue Gretsch with a butter knife ...

NEW YORK — CeDell Davis, a Delta bluesman from Arkansas who used a knife for a guitar slide, died Sept. 27, his Facebook page said. He was 91. He had been hospitalized since Sept. 24 after a heart ...

“Watch your women,” the loudspeaker boomed, “because CeDell will be at the entry tent after the set taking pictures.” That was on Saturday, June 18, 2016, at the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in ...

CeDell Davis has been playing the blues for most of his 90 years, even though his mama told him he'd suffer eternal damnation for it. He has performed and recorded with Robert Nighthawk, R.E.M.'s ...

Arkansas bluesman CeDell Davis, who didn't let a childhood bout with polio or an accident that left him unable to walk stop him from forging his own unique version of the blues, died Wednesday evening ...

June 20, 2022 by Ninfa O. Barnard Special to The Commercial Ellis CeDell Davis was born June 9, 1926, in Helena, Ark., to Johnny and Mary Davis. His mother was a cook and a faith healer, while his ...

CeDell Davis at his home in Pine Bluff, Ark., in 2001, using a butter knife to play the guitar. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times A Delta bluesman from Arkansas, Mr. Davis sang with a grainy moan and ...

CeDell Davis, a Delta bluesman from Arkansas who used a knife for a guitar slide, died on Wednesday. He was 91. His Facebook page confirmed the death. He had been hospitalized since Sept. 24 after a ...

CeDell Davis was born in Helena, Arkansas, in 1929 and began to play music at an early age. But he contracted polio when he was nine years old and had to relearn the guitar: strumming with his left ...