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Eddie C. Campbell
12+ albums
bluesdelta bluesChicago Bluesbluesrockchicago bluezzz
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Eddie C. Campbell (May 6, 1939 – November 20, 2018) was an American blues guitarist and singer in the Chicago blues scene. Born in Mississippi in 1939 and raised on Chicago’s tough South Side, during his career Campbell played with nearly every seminal figure who defines Chicago Blues. With irresistible rhythms and lithe guitar lines, Campbell had a precise, clean, popping guitar tone played with uncanny precision. He was perhaps one of the best and most under-appreciated Chicago blues guitarists. Campbell’s parents moved to Chicago when he was six and his mother bought him his first guitar at age eight. By the age of 12 he was sitting in with Muddy Waters and while still in his teens he was playing around town with friends Luther Allison and Magic Sam. One of the more flamboyant players on the Chicago West Side, Campbell would wear outrageous hair styles and could often be seen riding around on a purple motorcycle with his bright red guitar strapped to his back. By the late '50s he was backing up Lowell Fulson, Percy Mayfield, Tyrone Davis and Little Johnny Taylor. He played with just about every blues artists in the Chicago area at that time including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Little Walter, Mighty Joe Young, Oscar Coleman and Magic Sam who was influential on his guitar style. During the '60s and ‘70’s Campbell was band leader for Jimmy Reed (until his death in 1976). He then played with Koko Taylor and Willie Dixon's Chicago Blues All-Stars. In 1977 he
