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July 01, 2023

D.C. Bellamy - Water To Wine (2000), Give Some Body To Somebody (2006)

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Kansas City, here I've come !

I suppose we could say that D.C. Bellamy plays Chicago blues, but in this case it is a very personal kind of Chicago blues made in… Kansas City. What strikes immediately in his style is a special underlying sound, different, hardly heard before, mixing heartfelt vocals, appealing guitar tone, prominent organ (at least on the first album), and grooving self-written repertoire.

Gregory "D.C." Bellamy, born in 1949 in Chicago and grown up on the West Side, is a younger half-brother of the late Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999). Of his different influences, Rhythm'n'Blues had the greatest impact on his style.