- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- At Newport · 1968
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) · 1960
- Acoustic Blues · 1968
Essential Albums
- The legendary bluesman and gospel preacher recorded all 12 of these takes in one three-hour session, and passion and immediacy drip from every note. He plays in a finger-picked, country-blues style, and though he plays without accompaniment, his guitar sounds as rich and full as an orchestra; his voice grabs hold of each lyric with soul-stirring fervor. And what diversity in the material! “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” is an ominous lament, while “I Belong to the Band,” a song of acceptance in Christ, finds the reverend shouting with joy.
- 2006
Live Albums
Compilations
About Reverend Gary Davis
Blind blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis is one of the most influential bluesmen in terms of the evolution of folk and rock fingerpicking. A key member of the Piedmont blues movement of the 1920s and '30s, Davis put his own upbeat yet simplistic spin on the rural picking style that marked that scene's sound. Davis moved to New York City in the 1940s where he recorded for the famed Folkways label, eventually becoming a darling of the folk revival that would explode in the coming decades. Everyone from Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk to Taj Mahal, Jackson Browne, and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead cite Davis as an influence.
- HOMETOWN
- Laurens, SC, United States
- BORN
- April 30, 1896
- GENRE
- Blues