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Media Type: CD
Artist: DAVIS,BLIND GARY
Title: HARLEM STREET SINGER
Street Release Date: 08/25/1992
Domestic
Genre: BLUES

• Part of the Heroes of the Blues series • The only true cross-licensed best-of package for the Rev. Gary Davis • A complete complete career retrospective, covering all periods of his career and various record labels • Digitally re-mastered • Cover art by R. Crumb

A stunning mixture of gospel vocals and deftly played blues and ragtime instrumentals from the guitar playing evangelist. Recordings from 1957 demonstrate Davis's amazing ability to both sing and play with a passion and skill unparalleled. They also contain the first recorded performances of the Davis classics Hesitation Blues and Cocaine Blues. Reverend Gary Davis remains one of America's truly great folk artists. "...mandatory listening...the single best source of his passionate singing and playing..." (One of the top five blues releases of 1991) -- Pulse!

Guitarist Stefan Grossman started out as a teenage student of his hero, the Reverend Gary Davis-and it was Grossman who made these 1962-67 recordings in Davis's home and storefront church. This set of rags, blues, gospel, Tin Pan Alley and folk paints a comprehensive portrait of the mesmerizing acoustic-guitar master: Twelve Sticks; Babylon Is Falling; Hesitation Blues; I Want to Be Saved; What Could I Do; C Rag; Sun Is Going Down; Candyman; Fox Chase; Amazing Grace; God Be with You; Steal Away; Saddle It Around 49 tracks!

Guitarist Stefan Grossman, himself a student of Davis's, made these sought-after recordings in the famed folk club at the peak of the folk revival. Davis covers his whole repertoire of blues, rags, gospel songs and novelty tunes, displaying mesmerizing guitar mastery as you hear You Got to Move; Oh Lord; Fox Chase; I'll Fly Away; Buck Dance; Samson and Delilah; Candyman; Tesse; All Night Long; Twelve Sticks 36 rare performances on 3 CDs!