Dave Peabody

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 <a href="spotify:artist:5CqYiXk35NVbcP7kgvjkwc">Bob Hall</a>. <a href="spotify:artist:5CqYiXk35NVbcP7kgvjkwc">Hall</a> played with one of the early versions of <a href="spotify:artist:17obwOahRWI121iMUZznh2">Savoy Brown</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3y1DgnVXqckGJrbwOKchdU">Peter Green</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7bRRWmUqERkyOVSSU6MPFu">Mick Fleetwood</a>, T.S. McPhee, <a href="spotify:artist:5cCSdvRfmjBv5smz6JFoTN">the De Luxe Blues Band</a>, 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 <a href="spotify:artist:4NikxGoDm5LGVYAHj0Euoc">Charlie Musselwhite</a> and Cincinnati pianist <a href="spotify:artist:2qQLjtrCXMHvWF31LiQbyB">Big Joe Duskin</a>. 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, <a href="spotify:artist:5CqYiXk35NVbcP7kgvjkwc">Bob Hall</a> 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, Rovi