Like many, I became aware of Rev. G. Davis via Jorma K’s covers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1SK3QTnGU8&list=RDc1SK3QTnGU8&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2v4bmWbXeg&list=OLAK5uy_k1_unICX7WcrG1S-25D3NQ6L9P28ISuc4
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
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He was dressed as any decent man of his generation and social context was dress if he could afford it... He was a minister not only a musician...
He was one of the great and the one who reveal to me as Marian Anderson what was genius in gospel or blues and top genius, well dress or not... I dont give a damn about dress.... With Billie Holiday and Anderson and Armstrong and Ray Charles and John lee Hooker he was for me the top.... Nobody can fake spirituality...
«While he was alive, Davis' music was recognized by musicians of the era as exceptional. Bob Dylan called him "one of the wizards of modern music," while Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead said Davis had "a Bacchian sense of music which transcended any common notion of a bluesman." Jorma Kaukonen of the Jefferson Airplane suggested Davis is "one of the greatest figures of 20th-century music."[11]»
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Here is a video of Jesse Fuller singing "San Frencisco Bay Blues." I heard him live at Berkeley, just across the Bay from San Francisco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBME_J0pf3o And here is the great Otis Redding, who died much too young, singing "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay." |
....imho, I think any and all genres need a well-struck dope slap... Nothing like a parody to ground your capacitors' capacity. ;) |
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