REVEREND GARY DAVIS-PURE RELIGION/1960 STREET BLUES/NM
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REVEREND GARY DAVIS
PURE RELIGION!
Recorded August 24, 1960, also Bluesville BVLP 1015, Original Blues Classics 547, Fontana 688-303-ZL (UK 1965). Renamed Pure Religion! and reissued as Prestige Folklore 14028 and Prestige 7805 (1972).
Labels: MCA/DECCA silver text on black, perfect, just a couple of light tracery spindle marks visible under bright magnification
Mode: Reprocessed Stereo
Rarity: Very
Original Year of Release: 1960 - 1972
Catalogue Number: Prestige 7805
Outer Sleeve: Shrinkwrapped from ne, apart from a little discolouration on the rear open edge, it's pretty much Mint
Inner: White
Vinyl Weight: 130gms
Vinyl Condition & Grading: Looks brilliant and sounds unplayed
Album Played For Grading: Yes. (Equipment: Linn Sondek LP12, Linn Ekos arm, Linn K9 moving coil cartridge, tracking at 2 grams into a Cambridge Audio Azur 340A amp and out to a pair of Bose speakers with a Super Woofer)
Album Tracklisting
I Belong to the Band-Hallelujah!
Let Us Get Together
Samson and Delilah
Lo I Be With You Always
Goin' to Sit Down on the Banks of the River
Twelve Gates to the City
Tryin' to Get Home
Lord, I Feel Just Like Going On
Pure Religion
Great Change Since I Been Born
Death Don't Have No Mercy
This 1957 release has been issued throughout the world under a bevy of names. These recordings are worth mentioning for both their sacred and secular nature. Equally as interesting is the wide range of performance styles that the Rev. Gary Davis incorporates throughout this long player -- the first full-length disc to do so. Among them are the rarely displayed preachin' blues of "Bad Company," "Runnin' to the Judgement," and "Pure Religion." Notable are the spoken introductions or talkin' blues recitation techniques, as well as the more obvious and overtly religious themes. Davis took his commitment to the Lord seriously and had become an ordained minister in the summer of 1937. His vehemence and compulsion to spread the word is a blatant motif that works on several strata. In the musical parables of "Seven Sisters" -- which isn't a voodoo reference -- and "Right Now," Davis recalls the fatality of not rebuking sin with lyrics like "Don't 'cha put off today for tomorrow/for tomorrow may never be/Let the Saviour bless yo' soul, right now." This collection also includes a few equally heady instrumentals -- most notably "Cocaine Blues," "Buck Dance," and "Hesitation Blues." Davis' astonishingly potent guitar playing and conversational approach has arguably never been captured more aptly on record. The direct lineage between artists such as Dave Van Ronk, Jorma Kaukonen, Stefan Grossman, and Brownie McGhee becomes infinitely clear. One need not listen any further for their versatility in technique -- coupled with simultaneous chord strumming and picking -- can be traced to Davis. "Moon Goes Down" is one of the more secular pieces, originating in the slave fields as a "hollar." Davis' emotionally heavy performance and dirge-like chord changes rank the tune among his most emotive recordings.
Post & Packing: This is a valuable item which can be shipped with insured trackability as follows:
UK: £7.00 (Special Delivery)
Europe: £12.00 (International Signed For with Extra Compensation)
ROW: £15.00 (International Signed For with Extra Compensation)
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