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, and who claimed to contain 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.
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Source: theguardian.com