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Bio:
Eddy
"The Chief" Clearwater is a versatile, flamboyant Chicago blues rocker
who can perform good-natured party music and original, deep, melancholy blues
with equal finesse. "It's country and blues and rock 'n' roll combined...high
energy music," Clearwater says of his trademark sound.
Born January
10, 1935 in Macon, MS, Eddy Clearwater (birth name: Eddie Harrington) grew up
listening to Delta blues and country & western records. His family moved to
Birmingham, AL when he was 13. There Eddy began playing guitar backing various
gospel groups - including the now-legendary Five Blind Boys of Alabama.
He was still playing gospel music when he arrived on Chicago's West Side in September
1950, at age 15. "The West Side had a lot of blues at that time," he
recalls. "There were all these blues clubs...And the West Side was just starting
to develop a sound, with people like Magic Sam, Otis Rush, and Luther Allison."
Magic Sam became not only a major influence on Clearwater, but a friend and soul
mate as well. By 1953, Clearwater made his move into blues.
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