Reverend Gary Davis When I Die I'll Live Again 1972 Original 2LP FANTASY24704

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Reverend Gary Davis
When I Die I'll Live Again

• 1972 Original, 1st pressing.
• Double Vinyl / 2 LP Set
  
• Fantasy Records - 24704
  
• Vinyl are EX+ to EX++, mostly EX++ (8.5/12)
  
• Vinyl looks EX+ to EX++, mostly EX++ : light, mostly superficial and faint marks/scuffs.
• Vinyl play EX+ to EX++, mostly EX++ : faint background crackle and occasional clicks in some mostly quiet passages.
• Labels are EX+ to EX++, mostly EX++ 
• Gatefold cover is EX : small seam-splits; bends and indentations.
  
• The original inner-sleeves each have a small seam-split.
  
• Out of print original pressing ~

This two-fer offers Davis's best work of the '60s.

"In his prime of life, which is to say the late '20s, the Reverend Gary Davis was one of the two most renowned practitioners of the East Coast school of ragtime guitar; 35 years later, despite two decades spent playing on the streets of Harlem in New York, he was still one of the giants in his field, playing before thousands of people at a time, and an inspiration to dozens of modern guitarist/singers including Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, and Donovan; and Jorma Kaukonen, David Bromberg, and Ry Cooder, who studied with Davis.

Davis was partially blind at birth, and lost what little sight he had before he was an adult. He was self-taught on the guitar, beginning at age six, and by the time he was in his 20s he had one of the most advanced guitar techniques of anyone in blues; his only peers among ragtime-based players were Blind Arthur Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Willie Johnson. Davis himself was a major influence on Blind Boy Fuller.

Davis' influences included gospel, marches, ragtime, jazz, and minstrel hokum, and he integrated them into a style that was his own. In 1911, when Davis was a still teenager, the family moved to Greenville, SC, and he fell under the influence of such local guitar virtuosi as Willie Walker, Sam Brooks, and Baby Brooks. Davis moved to Durham in the mid-'20s, by which time he was a full-time street musician. He was celebrated not only for the diversity of styles that his playing embraced, but also for his skills with the guitar, which were already virtually unmatched in the blues field."...

-allmusic

There is an overall grading as well as a visual and play-grading.

Half points & grades : (example: EX++ to M-, mostly M- is a 10.5/12)

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12 Point Grading Scale :

12 - MINT / NEW SEALED   

11 - MINT-         

10 - EX++ to MINT-                  

9  -  EX++                                          

8  -  EX+ to EX++                              

7  -  EX+                                             

6  -  EX to EX+                                   

5  -  EX                                                

4  -  EX- to EX                                    

3  -  EX-                                              

2  -  Poor to EX-                                  

1  -  Poor/Worst/Ruined/Unplayable   

Note : possible camera-glare on the cover and other surfaces.

Includes a HQ inner-sleeve (pictured) which the vinyl is stored in after being professionally machine-cleaned and graded.

Packaged protectively for safe and secure shipping with USPS tracking.

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