Rev. Gary Davis - Pure Religion & Bad Company flac album

12. I Didn't Want to Join the Band. 13. Evening Sun Goes Down. Rev. Gary Davis & Pink Anderson. Aberdeeen Mississippi Blues: The Vintage Recordings (1930-1940).

Renews automatically. Sample this album Artist (Sample). 1. 30. Pure Religion. The rest of the album alternates more or less in that fashion: dynamite blues or ragtime numbers interspersed with deeply emotional religious songs. For the most part Davis' vocals here are less intense than those heard on "Harlem Street Singer," but his guitar playing takes up that burden. Stunning unamplified-guitar pyrotechnics?

For those of a similar name, see Gary Davies (disambiguation). Background information. The Dead also covered Davis' "Death Don't Have No Mercy". The Blues Hall of Fame singer and harmonica player Darrell Mansfield has recorded several of Davis's songs. Also XTRA 5014 (UK, 1966) and OBCCD 519-2. 1962? Pure Religion and Bad Company. Recorded June 1957 in New York City; also Folklyric 125; reissued as Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40035 (1991) with 2 additional cuts.

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This Rev. Gary Davis release has been issued throughout the world under a bevy of names and should not be confused with the Prestige disc simply titled Pure Religion. These recordings are notable for both their sacred and secular nature. Equally as interesting is the wide range of performance styles that the Reverend 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. Pure Religion & Bad Company was amended with two additional and otherwise previously unreleased tunes - "Time Is Drawing Near" and "Crucifixion" - when the title was issued on CD in 1991. Both tracks are from the same June 1957 session documented by Tiny Robinson and Fred Gerlach in New York City.