“The scraping of the knife along the strings of his bright yellow electric guitar makes a kind of metallic gnashing sound that conspires with his patched-together guitar amplifier and his utterly original playing technique to produce some of the grittiest music imaginable.” – NY Times critic Robert Palmer
CeDell Davis began playing around the Delta as a young man, and over the years he continued to work in some of the world’s most dangerous dives. Somehow he learned to project a kind of presence that defuses violence, keeping him miraculously whole amid raging chaos.
Feel Like Doin’ Something Wrong captures the haunted, otherworldly blues of CeDell Davis. Using a knife for a guitar slide, Davis creates strange, unpredictable sounds and matches them with his gnarled voice.
Club Members will be getting a copy of the super-limited, blue vinyl pressing of Feel Like Doin’ Something Wrong–only available directly from Fat Possum Records and The End of All Music.
“A childhood bout of polio left him with a gnarled fret hand. A bar-raid stampede left him trampled and confined to a wheelchair. And from that wheelchair, with his guitar on his lap and an old kitchen knife clutched in his wizened claw as a slide, CeDell Davis kicks some serious ass.
Listen to him plunk his way through the most dissonant, primitive Delta blues riffs, holler at the women what done him wrong and praise the large ladies of Pine Bluff, Ark. (“more fat women there than any place I ever saw”), and you too shall believe. What Davis does is so wrong it’s just gotta be right.” –The Tinnitist
