Repent forthwith and get hip to these timeless gospel blues recordings of the legendary Gary Davis. On Got On My Traveling Shoes , the blind Reverend sings and plays together with his mate Kinny Peebles, who was also known under the wonderful name of Sweet Papa Stovepipe. "I know my crown gonna fit me well, I tried it on at the gates of hell..." Reverend Gary Davis - We Are the Heavenly Father's Children Reverend Gary Davis & Kinny Peebles - Got On My Traveling Shoes
1961 blue/silver label "deep groove" mono original LP. "RVG" etched in trail-off area. Artist is listed as "Blind Gary Davis." Later issued by Prestige Folklore (FL 14028) as "Pure Religion!" which is not to be confused with 77 Records' release "Pure Religion And Bad Company," a straight-from-vinyl rip of which I'll share at some point [...]
• This isn't at all unusual. An Argentinian widow has moved out of her home and into the tomb of her husband, who died two years ago. She's set up a bed, wired Internet access, and even has a little stovetop or hotplate for cooking meals. Not usual at all. In fact, I'd like to propose [...]
As much as I want to, I will not be posting any cuts from the new Spiritualized LP, Sweet Heart Sweet Light, which came into my possession yesterday. It was lovingly packaged with posters, flyers and stickers, which I'm trying my best to apply to every available surface in my home. Alas, as the official [...]
"Death never takes a vacation in this land..." I know which version I prefer. But Jerry Garcia & co's brooding jam - from Live/Dead - is not bad either, I'll give you that. The Reverend Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy MP3 The Grateful Dead - Death Don't Have No Mercy MP3 And since we're on the subject of Garcia, and I'm still full of that fantastic Patti Smith gig I saw last Wednesday, [...]
"In the late 1960's, the Seattle Folklore Society and KCTS public television video taped various acts that came through town." Thanks to Mr. Dante Fontana for the find!
Révérend Gary Davis - « Children of Zion » Bonjour Blues , dont je ne vous ai plus parlé depuis son lancement le 30 juin dernier, est toujours bien actif. J'vous rappelle le principe : tous les jours (ou presque) à 7h (ou presque), un nouveau morceau de blues. Ce morceau du Révérend Gary Davis interprété dans l'émission de Pete Seeger m'a vraiment mis une claque. Comme le dit Bob Dylan : « these bluesmen may have been blind, but they had the best vision [...]
I used to listen to a couple records by Rev. Gary Davis - well, back when we had records. He was a fantastic guitar player who straddled the line between blues and gospel music. Sally Where'd you get your Liquor From? Children of Zion That's Pete Seeger and Donovan looking on. Cocaine Blues
Ce billet est la première partie d'une sorte de rétrospective du blues au travers de ses principaux protagonistes. J'étais partie pour ne faire qu'une playlist de 21 "indispensables", mais finalement j'ai décidé de prendre mon temps. Deux ou trois autres billets suivront celui-ci et j'espère ainsi vous montrer à quel point cette musique est passionnante. Je ne vais pas vous raconter toute l'histoire, sachez seulement que la musique blues est née à la fin du 19ème siècle dans le sud des Etats-Unis par la population afro-américaine. Les fameux "spirituals", les chants africains, les chants de travail sont les [...]
Five days after his 1933 inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called an emergency session of Congress to install one of his most popular New Deal programs, the Conservation Civilian Corps . The program targeted unemployed young men, veterans and American Indians hard hit by the Great Depression. The CCC boys received free education, healthcare and job training and were required to send a portion of their wages home to their parents. The boys also Throughout its nine-year existence, the program put millions to work on federal and state land for the [...]
I'm back in Los Angeles. I slept for about 10 hours and am still getting reacclimatized to this place. I'd like to extend a "Happy Mother's Day" to my mom. Of course, she's probably not reading this website today. She only ever visits the page when I've written something nasty about baby boomers or blamed my parents for making me a miserable human being. I don't think she's ever seen a positive note on this page. Oh well, I guess that's my fault. Also, congratulations to Nicci. She was in a student film that premiered tonight, and she [...]
D o you enjoy the blues? I enjoy the blues. A lot of hipster douches come into the store and act like "Oh, the blues are in now, I should get hip and start listening to the blues," but they are easy to spot, because they only seem to ask about John Lee Hooker, and most of those questions are whether or not he sometimes went by the name Earl. Or, they just pick up a re-issue of King Of The Delta Blues Singers and call it a day. There's no interest in exploring what is beneath the [...]
These are leftovers that I'd thought worth posting. It's too hot to trot out a few paragraphs, so I'll let the music do the talking. Graham Parker : Socks 'N' Sandals [ purchase ] Sonic Youth : Dirty Boots [ purchase ] The Reverend Gary Davis : Got On My Traveling Shoes [ purchase ] [...]
"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper." - Robert Alton Harris' last words Charlie Patton: Oh Death - 3.06MB Blind Willie McTell: The Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues - 4.48MB The Be Good Tanyas: In My Time Of Dying - 5.35MB Butthole Surfers: Pepper - 6.79MB Hank Williams: The Angel Of Death - 2.13MB Bob Dylan: Fixin' To Die - 2.75MB Cheap [...]
This recording of Cocaine Blues by Blind Reverend Gary Davis , sounds like it's gonna fall apart under the crush of all the cobwebs and dust. But the Reverend's brilliant, sparkling finger picking provides the momentum to keep the edifice intact. Despite his backwoods birth in 1896, Davis' unique guitar technique was a huge influence on the folk and blues revival of the 60's, and can be heard in The Grateful Dead , Bob Dylan and Jorma Kaukonen . Cocaine Blues [...]
"Reverend Gary Davis was a towering figure in at least two realms. As a finger-style guitarist he developed a complex yet swinging approach to picking that has influenced generations of players, a nd as a composer of religious and secular music he created a substantial body of work that has been recorded by, among others, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, and the Grateful Dead , not to mention Davis's own releases" - hompage If you have [...]
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Watch Kanye West on Saturday Night Live, performing “Black Skinhead” and “New Slaves”
