Amoeba Music

Though he has had his share of hits over the course of his long career – the best known of them being his 1970 cover of Smiley Lewis’ New Orleans standard “I Hear You Knockin’” – Dave Edmunds has been persistently underrated and overlooked by the critics. Possibly it is because he is a decidedly blue-collar musician and a roots-rock classicist (and not, emphatically, a revivalist) and not an innovator, he has received less than his due from scribes, for whom image and innovation usually take precedence.

Especially during a remarkable run of highly entertaining, forcefully recorded albums released (mostly by Led Zeppelin’s label Swan Song) during the 1970s,... Read More

City Of Origin:

Cardiff, Wales

Genre:

Rock, Rock & Roll, Roots, Power Pop

Birthdate:

04/15/1944