Cedell Davis
b. 1926, Halena, Arkansas, USA. An excellent slide guitar and harmonica player Davis performed briefly as a member of the King Biscuits Time entertainers in the early '50s with Sonny Boy Williamson before joining guitarist, Robert Nighthawk's band. In 1961 he moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas and continued to work locally and occasionally with Nighthawk, who along with Tampa Red, influenced his slide guitar playing. Because of the effects of childhood polio which denied him the full use of his hands, Davis played the guitar upside down and used a butter knife for a slide. He is now reported to be living in a nursing home in Pine Bluff.