Guitar & Banjo Of Reverend Gary Davis Prestige FL 14033 1964 Country Blues RARE

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The Guitar & Banjo Of Reverend Gary Davis Label: Prestige Folklore ?– FL 14033 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono  Country: US Released: Oct 1964 Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country Style: Country Blues, East Coast Blues, Piedmont Blues Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Maple Leaf Rag Written-By – Joplin* 2:55 A2 Slow Drag 2:20 A3 The Boy Was Kissing The Girl (And Playing The Guitar At The Same Time) 2:40 A4 Candy Man 2:50 A5 United States March Arranged By – G. Davis* 6:25 B1 Devil's Dream Banjo – Gary Davis* 3:45 B2 The Coon Hunt Harmonica – Gary Davis* 3:25 B3 Mister Jim 4:15 B4 Please Baby Banjo – Gary Davis* 3:20 B5 Fast Fox Trot 2:20 B6 Can't Be Satisfied 2:55 Companies, etc. Published By – Prestige Music (3) Credits Design, Photography By – Don Schlitten Guitar – Gary Davis* Liner Notes – Chris Albertson Supervised By – Samuel Charters* Written-By – Davis* (tracks: A2 to A4, B3 to B6), Trad.* (tracks: B1 to B2) Notes Green Prestige Folklore labels.
Notes: Chris Albertson (June 1964) WBAI-New York
A2 to A5, and B3 to B6 published by Pres. Mus.-BMI

Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis (born Gary D. Davis, April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972),[1] was a blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar and harmonica. His fingerpicking guitar style influenced many other artists. His students include Stefan Grossman, David Bromberg, Steve Katz, Roy Book Binder, Larry Johnson, Nick Katzman, Dave Van Ronk, Rory Block, Ernie Hawkins, Larry Campbell, Bob Weir, Woody Mann, and Tom Winslow.[2] He influenced Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Wizz Jones, Jorma Kaukonen, Keb' Mo', Ollabelle, Resurrection Band, and John Sebastian (of the Lovin' Spoonful).

Davis was born in Laurens, South Carolina, in the Piedmont region. Of the eight children his mother bore, he was the only one who survived to adulthood. He became blind as an infant. He recalled being poorly treated by his mother and that his father placed him in the care of his paternal grandmother. Davis reported that when he was 10 years old his father was killed in Birmingham, Alabama; he later said that he had been told that his father was shot by the Birmingham sheriff.[3]
He sangs for the first time at Gray Court's Baptist church in South Carolina. 
He took to the guitar and assumed a unique multivoice style produced solely with his thumb and index finger, playing gospel, ragtime, and blues tunes along with traditional and original tunes in four-part harmony.

Bull City Blues historical marker, Durham, North Carolina In the mid-1920s, Davis migrated to Durham, North Carolina, a major center of black culture at the time. There he taught Blind Boy Fuller and collaborated with a number of other artists in the Piedmont blues scene, including Bull City Red.[2] In 1935, J. B. Long, a store manager with a reputation for supporting local artists, introduced Davis, Fuller, and Red to the American Record Company. The subsequent recording sessions (available on his Complete Early Recordings) marked the real beginning of Davis's career. During his time in Durham, he became a Christian.[2][5] In 1933, Davis was ordained as a Baptist minister in Washington, North Carolina]. [6] Following his conversion and especially his ordination, Davis began to prefer inspirational gospel music.
In the 1940s, the blues scene in Durham began to decline, and Davis moved to New York.[2] In 1951, he recorded an oral history for the folklorist Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold (the wife of Alan Lomax). who transcribed their conversations in a typescript more than 300 pages long.
The folk revival of the 1960s invigorated Davis's career. He performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Peter, Paul and Mary recorded his version of "Samson and Delilah", also known as "If I Had My Way", a song by Blind Willie Johnson, which Davis had popularized. "Samson and Delilah" was also covered and credited to Davis by the Grateful Dead on the album Terrapin Station. The Dead also covered Davis' "Death Don't Have No Mercy". Eric Von Schmidt credited Davis with three-quarters of Schmidt's "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down", covered by Bob Dylan on his debut album for Columbia Records. The Blues Hall of Fame singer and harmonica player Darrell Mansfield has recorded several of Davis's songs.
Davis died of a heart attack in May 1972, in Hammonton, New Jersey.[7] He is buried in plot 68 of Rockville Cemetery, in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York.
Discography Many of Davis' recordings were published posthumously.
Year Title Label Number Notes 1954 Blind Gary Davis – The Singing Reverend Stinson SLP 56 First LP, recorded April 1954, with Sonny Terry, red vinyl 1956 American Street Songs Riverside RP 12–611 Side A, Pink Anderson, Carolina Street Ballads; side B, Rev. Gary Davis, Harlem Street Spirituals, recorded January 29, 1956; also released as Gospel, Blues and Street Songs, Riverside RLP 12-148 (1961), Original Blues Classics OBC 524 and OBCCD 524-2 1960 Harlem Street Singer Bluesville 1015 Recorded August 24, 1960; also Original Blues Classics 547, Fontana 688-303-ZL (UK, 1965); renamed Pure Religion! and reissued as Prestige Folklore 14028 and Prestige 7805 (1972); remastered and reissued as OBCCD-547-2 (1992); reissued as Fantasy 24704 1961 A Little More Faith Bluesville 1032 Recorded August 10, 1961, in Memphis(?); also XTRA 5042 (UK, 1967), OBCCD-588-2; reissued as Fantasy 24704 1961 Say No to the Devil Bluesville 1049 Also XTRA 5014 (UK, 1966) and OBCCD 519-2 1962? Pure Religion and Bad Company 77 (UK) LA 12/14 Recorded June 1957 in New York City; also Folklyric 125; reissued as Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40035 (1991) with 2 additional cuts 1964? Pure Religion! Prestige Folklore 14028 Also Prestige 7805 (1972), reissue of Harlem Street Singer 1964 The Guitar & Banjo of Reverend Gary Davis Prestige Folklore 14033 Instrumental tracks, recorded March 2, 1964, Van Gelder Studio; also Fantasy OBCCD 592-2; reissued as The Blues Guitar and Banjo of Reverend Gary Davis, Prestige 7725 1964 Rev. Gary Davis/Short Stuff Macon Xtra (UK) 1009 196? The Legendary Reverend Gary Davis, New Blues and Gospel Biograph 12030E Also Blue Moon BMLP 1.040 (c.1987) 1968 Rev. Gary Davis at Newport Vanguard 73008 Recorded 1965 1968 Bring Your Money, Honey Fontana (UK) SFJL 914 Recorded Cambridge, Mass. 1970 Reverend Gary Davis 1935–1949 Yazoo L-1023 Also Yazoo CD 2011 (1994) as The Complete Early Recordings of Rev. Gary Davis and Document DOCD 5060 (UK, 2003) with 2 extra tracks 1971 Ragtime Guitar Transatlantic (UK) TRA 244 Recorded 1960–1971; also Kicking Mule 106 (1974), Sonet SNKF 133 (1977) and Heritage HT 309 (UK, 1985) 1971 Children of Zion Transatlantic (UK) TRA 249 Recorded 1962, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.; also Kicking Mule 101 (1974), Sonet SNKF 152 (1978), Heritage HT 308 (UK, 1985); also on Blues & Ragtime, Shanachie 97024 (1993) 1971 The Legendary Reverend Gary Davis, Blues and Gospel, Vol 2 Biograph 12034E Recorded March 17, 1971 1972 When I Die I'll Live Again Fantasy 24704 Reissue of Prestige/Bluesville 1015 and 1032 1973 Lo I Be with You Always Sonet (Sweden) SNKD 1 Also Kicking Mule cassette tape (no number, 1984); reissued on Blues & Ragtime, Shanachie 97024 (1993) 1973 O, Glory – The Apostolic Studio Sessions Adelphi 1008 Final studio album, recorded March 1969; reissued as Genes GCD 9908 (1996) with additional tracks 1973 At the Sign of the Sun Heritage (UK) ?? 1962, San Diego, Calif.; also HT CD 03 (UK, 1990) 1974 Let Us Get Together Sonet (Sweden) SNKF 103 Also Kicking Mule cassette tape (no number, 1984) 1976 Sun Is Going Down Folkways FS 3542 Recorded 1966 1984 I Am a True Vine Kicking Mule no number Cassette tape 1984 Babylon Is Falling Kicking Mule no number Cassette tape 1985 I Am a True Vine Heritage (UK) HT 307 Recorded 1962–63, New York City; also HT CD07 (UK, 1991) ? Reverend Gary Davis Heritage (UK) CD 02 Reissue of Children of Zion and Ragtime Guitar 1988 Blind Gary Davis Document (Austria) DLP 521 Recorded live, spring 1966, at Al Matthes, Toronto 1988 Blind Gary Davis 1962–1964, Recorded Live Wolf (Austria) 120,915 1988 Blind Gary Davis at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., 1964—Afternoon Workshop Document (Austria) DLP 527 1993 Rev. Gary Davis: Blues and Ragtime Shanachie 97042 2002 The Sun of Our Life: Solos, Songs, a Sermon 1955–1957 World Arbiter 2005 Previously unissued session tapes and sermon from mid-1950s 2003 If I Had My Way: Early Home Recordings Folkways SFW40123 Recorded 1953 by John Cohen 2007 Lifting the Veil: The First Bluesmen (1926–1956), Rev. Gary Davis and Peers World Arbiter 2008 Unissued session tapes from 1956–57, recorded by Fred Gerlach & Tiny Robinson;[citation needed] liner notes quote a 1951 interview with Davis 2007 Reverend Gary Davis Live: Manchester Free Trade Hall 1964 Document (Austria) DOCD-32-20-14 Recorded May 8, 1964, Manchester, England 2009 Live at Gerde's Folk City, February 1962 Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop SGGW 114/5/6 3-CD set 2010 Reverend Gary Davis Field Recorders Collective FRC116 Recorded 1952, New York City, by John Cohen