DAVE PEABODY

DAVE PEABODY quizá no sea un bluesman en el más clásico sentido de la palabra, es mas bien un hombre polifacético que le gusta el Blues entre otras muchas cosas , Dave , inglés de Londres, concretamente de Southall ( Middlesex ) es un erudito que le gusta investigar, productor, fotógrafo, etc. se hizo acompañar durante mucho tiempo por el pianista de Boogie -Woogie BOB HALL , ha hecho versiones de temas de Savoy Brown, Peter Green etc, aparece como guitarrista en mas de 60 álbumes, también tocando la armónica y junto a figuras como Charlie Musselwhite entre otros. Junto a BOB HALL ( Ver post de Bob ,  8/6/14 donde se les puede ver a ambos )  ha grabado dos discos con el sello Appaloosa Récords Down The Road Apiece y Roll & Slide de 1981 y 1984 respectivamente, entre otros muchos álbumes, de entre ellos también uno con el propio Charlie Musselwhite, Cambridge Blues de 1988. En fin un trabajador incansable y un hombre campechano, ( Cuerpo de guisante ) que se ha prodigado en numerosas Fiestas Populares. 

                             

                            

Over the last several years renouned Blue's artist Dave Peabody and Gypsy Dave Smith have performed together at festivals and gigs. This is a number filmed specially for Gettin' the Blues.

British folk-blues musician Dave Peabody is one part blues scholar, one part producer, one part photographer and one part singer/songwriter. Some of his greatest performances in the U.S. have been at folk festivals, with accompaniment from his longtime collaborator, blues and boogie-woogie pianist Bob Hall. Hall played with one of the early versions of Savoy Brown, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, T.S. McPhee, the De Luxe Blues Band, and Dave and Jo-Ann Kelly, and has appeared on more than 60 albums. Peabody sings and plays guitar in a variety of acoustic blues styles, including bottleneck slide and fingerpicking. He has also recorded with a group called Tight Like That, and he appears on half a dozen albums as a harmonica player with British blues groups like Last Train South, as well as American harmonica ace Charlie Musselwhite and Cincinnati pianist Big Joe Duskin. Peabody has released five albums under his own name and tours the U.S. infrequently; he concentrates his solo touring efforts, on which he accompanies himself on guitar and harmonica, in England, Scotland and Ireland. Peabody's albums, which may be available through import, include Peabody Hotel, a 1973 release for Village Thing Records; Keep It Clean, a 1974 album for Matchbox Records; Come and Get It, a 1976 album, also for Matchbox; Blues In Brussels, 1977, CL Records; Payday, 1979, Waterfront Records; and Americana, 1987, also for Waterfront Records. As a tandem, Bob Hall and Dave Peabody have two albums out: Down The Road Apiece, a 1981 album on Appaloosa Records, and Roll and Slide, a 1984 album for the same label. ~ Richard Skelly, All Music Guide

                               
           

Dave has THREE TIMES been voted Acoustic Blues Artiste of the Year. First in 1995 and then again in 2001 and 2002.

Dave Peabody (born David Peabody, 20 April 1948, Southall, Middlesex, London, England) is an English singer-songwriter, blues and folk musician, record producer and photographer, active since the late 1960s, who has appeared on more than 60 albums He is primarily known for his acoustic guitar playing, in both bottleneck and fingerpicking styles.

He first recorded in 1971 as a member of a group, Polly Flosskin, who recorded an album, Sailin' on the Ocean, and then as a member of a successor group, Tight Like That, on the Village Thing label. He also performed with early versions of Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac. His first, self-titled, solo album was released in 1973. In all, he has released nine solo albums, the most recent being Side by Slide in 2005. He has also performed and recorded with a wide variety of other blues musicians, notably Charlie Musselwhite and Big Joe Duskin, as well as in a duo with Bob Hall, and has appeared at many blues festivals in the US and in Europe.

In 1996, he replaced Paul King in the King Earl Boogie Band. Peabody was voted "Acoustic Blues Artist of the Year" in 1995, 2001 and 2002.