Letter: Giorgio Gomelsky’s club brought blues stars to Croydon

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/11/letter-giorgio-gomelsky

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Giorgio Gomelsky had a rarely mentioned R&B club in Croydon called Crawdaddy, linking with groups at his Richmond Crawdaddy club and featuring Gary Farr and the T-Bones as house band.

Memorably, Giorgio booked the American blues musician T-Bone Walker, who claimed to have invented the electric guitar and played in a distinctive style, holding his electric acoustic guitar almost horizontally while playing. Sonny Boy Williamson also played there, wearing a striking grey-and-black quartered suit and a bowler hat.