CeDell Davis

Ellis CeDell Davis playing guitar in his Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) living room in 1976. This photo shows Davis’s technique of fretting the guitar with a butter knife.

Interior two black men one seated with guitar one standing hands in pockets smiling

Courtesy of the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Gift of the Bicentennial Blues Project, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

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