000 - Rev. Gary Davis - At Home And Church (2010).txt
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Description
This set of three CDs captures Rev. Davis at home and church - teaching, talking and philosophizing. The first two CDs are material recorded at his Bronx home. Religious songs, folk tunes, blues, rags and memories are included. The music ranges from the heavenly to the bawdy. The third CD features a service I recorded where Rev. Davis plays and delivers sermons.
Track Listing: (click on tracks for mp3 sound samples)
Disc One (At Home):
1. Twelve Sticks
3. Babylon Is Falling
4. What Could I Do
5. Children of Zion
6. Hesitation Blues
7. Candyman (on 5 String Banjo)
8. Steal Away And Pray
10. Packing Up, Get Ready To Go
11. Untitled
14. Lord Let Me Live Longer
15. I Want To be Saved
16. Waltz Time Candyman
17. Little Boy Who Made Your Britches
18. Talks about Verses Not Sung
19. C Rag
20. Two Step Candyman
Disc Two (At Home):
1. Piece Without Words
2. Lord Search My Heart
4. Sun is Going Down
5. Raise A Ruckus Tonight
6. Save Up Your Money, John D. Rockefeller, Put the Panic On
7. Soon My Work Will All Be Done
10. Blues in C
11. Saddle It Around
12. People Who Use To See
13. Italian Rag
14. Candyman
16. Fox Chase
17. Talk on Blind Boy Fuller
Disc Three (In Church):
1. Amazing Grace
2. Sermon
4. Sermon
6. Steal Away
8. Sermon
9. I Will Overcome Someday
10. God Be With You
From the Mariposa Folk Festival:
Review: Before he died in 1972, age 76, Davis had numerous disciples who studied at his knee - including Dave Van Ronk, Danny Kalb, David Bromberg, Larry Johnson, and Ian Buchanan - but few captured his style down to the last nuance the way Stefan Grossman did. More important, Grossman recorded Rev. Davis on numerous occasions - CDs of which are still being released.
The latest installment from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, At Home And Church, 1962-1967 is the mother lode. The three discs, clocking in at a whopping three and a half hours, offer the most intimate portrait of the artist yet. The first two discs were recorded at Davis' Bronx tenement, and though he effectively quit performing secular material in favor of singing gospel and preaching in the street, he offers renditions of such favorites as "Hesitation Blues" and the bawdy "Little Boy, Who Made Your Britches." He performs the minstrel tune "Raise A Ruckus Tonight" on 12-string and duets with his wife, Annie, on "Soon My Work Will All Be Done."
"Candy Man" is presented in four different versions; on five-string banjo, 12-string, and two renditions on six string guitar- as a two-step and in waltz time. The minor-key "Italian Rag," played on 12-string, is oddly hypnotic, and he gives Sonny Terry a run for his money on the harmonica instrumental "Fox Chase."
Of special interest is a nine-minute interview wherein Davis talks about meeting and eventually teaching Blind Boy Fuller.
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