Geoff Bradford

Geoff Bradford is a British blues guitarist whose performing career dates from the end of the 1950s and the London Round House performances of Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies, years before they formed Blues, Inc. In contrast to most of the fledgling players on the British blues scene of the period, Bradford was already a virtuoso-level player, sufficiently so that he became something of a star in Davies' first band, after the latter parted company with Korner. According to Richard Newman in a 1995 article, Bradford was also a friend of a somewhat younger guitarist on the blues scene named Brian Jones, and it was he that Jones first approached about playing in a group that he was putting together -- that spot eventually went to Keith Richards, in what became The Rolling Stones. He did work with The Cyril Davies All-stars (later The Hoochie Coochie Men), but ultimately -- as the serious blues that the latter group played became marginalized behind the louder rock sounds of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, et al. -- he faded from the view of the general public.

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