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Reverend Gary Davis

Index Reverend Gary Davis

Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis (born Gary D. Davis, April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972), was a blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar and harmonica. [1]

77 relations: Adelphi Records, African-American culture, Alan Lomax, American Record Company, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down, Banjo, Baptists, Biograph Records, Birmingham, Alabama, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Willie Johnson, Blues, Bluesville Records, Bob Dylan, Bob Weir, Bull City Red, Cocaine Blues, Country blues, Darrell Mansfield, Dave Van Ronk, David Bromberg, Document Records, Durham, North Carolina, Ernie Hawkins, Fantasy Records, Fingerstyle guitar, Folkways Records, Fontana Records, Fred Gerlach, Gospel blues, Grateful Dead, Guitar, Hammonton, New Jersey, Harmonica, J. B. Long, John Cohen (musician), John Sebastian, Jorma Kaukonen, Keb' Mo', Kicking Mule Records, Larry Campbell (musician), Larry Johnson (musician), Laurens, South Carolina, List of works published posthumously, Long Island, Lynbrook, New York, Minister (Christianity), Newport Folk Festival, Nick Katzman, Ollabelle, ..., Ordination, Peter, Paul and Mary, Piedmont blues, Prestige Records, Ragtime, Resurrection Band, Rockville Cemetery, Roots revival, Rory Block, Roy Book Binder, Samson and Delilah (song), Shanachie Records, Sing Out!, Sonet Records, Sonny Terry, Sound recording and reproduction, Stefan Grossman, Steve Katz (musician), The Lovin' Spoonful, TK Records, Tom Winslow, Transatlantic Records, Vanguard Records, Wizz Jones, Woody Mann, Yazoo Records, 77 Records. Expand index (27 more) »

Adelphi Records

Adelphi Records is an American independent record label founded in 1968 and incorporated in 1970 by Gene Rosenthal.

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African-American culture

African-American culture, also known as Black-American culture, refers to the contributions of African Americans to the culture of the United States, either as part of or distinct from mainstream American culture.

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Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.

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American Record Company

The American Record Company was an American record label that was in business from 1904 to 1906.

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Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

"Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" is a traditional folk song popularised in the late 1950s by blues guitarist Eric Von Schmidt.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Biograph Records

Biograph Records is a record label founded in 1967 by Arnold S. Caplin that specialized in early American ragtime, jazz, and blues music.

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Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.

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Blind Boy Fuller

Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen, July 10, 1904 or 1907February 13, 1941) was an American blues guitarist and singer.

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Blind Willie Johnson

Blind Willie Johnson (January 25, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American gospel blues singer and guitarist and evangelist.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bluesville Records

Bluesville Records was a subsidiary of Prestige Records, launched in 1959 or 1960, with the primary purpose of documenting the work of the older classic bluesmen passed over by the changing audience.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bob Weir

Robert Hall Weir (born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead.

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Bull City Red

Bull City Red (born George Washington, February 19, 1917 – October 1958) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer, and predominately washboard player, most closely associated with Blind Boy Fuller and the Reverend Gary Davis.

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Cocaine Blues

"Cocaine Blues" is a Western Swing song written by T. J. "Red" Arnall, a reworking of the traditional song "Little Sadie".

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Country blues

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, that mixes blues elements with characteristics of country and folk.

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Darrell Mansfield

Darrell Mansfield is an American vocalist, harmonica player, songwriter, recording artist, and performer of various genres including gospel, contemporary Christian music, blues, blues rock, rock, country rock, and soul/R&B.

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Dave Van Ronk

David Kenneth Ritz "Dave" Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer.

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David Bromberg

David Bromberg (born September 19, 1945) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter.

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Document Records

Document Records is an independent record label in Scotland that specializes in reissuing vintage blues and jazz.

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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Ernie Hawkins

Ernie Hawkins (born Ernest Leroy Hawkins, 1947, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American acoustic blues guitar player, singer, song writer, recording artist, and educator.

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Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is an American record company and label founded by brothers Max and Sol Weiss in 1949.

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Fingerstyle guitar

Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick").

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Folkways Records

Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music.

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Fontana Records

Fontana Records is a record label which was started in the 1950s as a subsidiary of the Dutch Philips Records.

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Fred Gerlach

Fred Gerlach (August 26, 1925 — December 31, 2009) was an American folk musician and luthier, perhaps most famous for his recording of the traditional song "Gallows Pole", which Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page credited with inspiring his own band's version.

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Gospel blues

Gospel blues or holy blues is a form of blues-based gospel music that has been around since the inception of blues music, a combination of blues guitar and evangelistic lyrics.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hammonton, New Jersey

Hammonton is a town in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known as the "Blueberry Capital of the World." As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 14,791, reflecting an increase of 2,187 (+17.4%) from the 12,604 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 396 (+3.2%) from the 12,208 counted in the 1990 Census.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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J. B. Long

James Baxter Long, Sr.

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John Cohen (musician)

John Cohen (born August 2, 1932, in Queens, New York) is a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers as well as a musicologist, photographer and filmmaker.

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John Sebastian

John Benson Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonicist, and autoharpist, who is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000; for his impromptu appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969;, rockhall.com.

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Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Jr. (born December 23, 1940) is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist.

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Keb' Mo'

Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is an American blues musician and four-time Grammy Award winner.

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Kicking Mule Records

Kicking Mule Records was an American independent record label, founded in Berkeley, California in 1971 by guitarist Stefan Grossman and Eugene "ED" Denson, formerly co-owner of Takoma Records.

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Larry Campbell (musician)

Larry Campbell (born February 21, 1955, New York City) is an American multi-instrumentalist, who plays many stringed instruments (including guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, and violin) in genres including country, folk, blues, and rock.

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Larry Johnson (musician)

Larry Alonzo Johnson (May 15, 1938 – August 6, 2016) was an American blues singer and guitarist.

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Laurens, South Carolina

Laurens is a city in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States.

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List of works published posthumously

The following is a list of works that were published or distributed posthumously.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Lynbrook, New York

Lynbrook is a village in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Minister (Christianity)

In Christianity, a minister is a person authorized by a church, or other religious organization, to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading services such as weddings, baptisms or funerals; or otherwise providing spiritual guidance to the community.

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Newport Folk Festival

The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.

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Nick Katzman

Nick Katzman (born 1951) is an American blues musician.

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Ollabelle

Ollabelle is a New York-based folk music group named after the influential Appalachian songwriter Ola Belle Reed.

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Ordination

Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart as clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies.

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Peter, Paul and Mary

Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.

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Piedmont blues

Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast, or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style, the Piedmont fingerstyle, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Ragtime

Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918.

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Resurrection Band

Resurrection Band, also known as Rez Band or REZ, was a Christian rock band formed in 1972.

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Rockville Cemetery

Rockville Cemetery and Bristol and Mexico Monument is a historic cemetery located at Lynbrook in Nassau County, New York.

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Roots revival

A roots revival (folk revival) is a trend which includes young performers popularizing the traditional musical styles of their ancestors.

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Rory Block

Aurora "Rory" Block (born November 6, 1949, Princeton, New Jersey, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer, a notable exponent of the country blues style.

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Roy Book Binder

Roy Book Binder (born October 5, 1943) is an American blues guitarist, singer-songwriter and storyteller.

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Samson and Delilah (song)

"Samson and Delilah" is a traditional song based on the Biblical tale of Samson and his betrayal by Delilah.

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Shanachie Records

Shanachie Records is a New Jersey-based record label founded in 1975 by Richard Nevins and Dan Collins.

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Sing Out!

Sing Out! was a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that was published from May 1950 through spring 2014.

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Sonet Records

Sonet Records is a jazz/pop record label operating as an imprint of Universal Music Sweden.

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Sonny Terry

Saunders Teddell, or Saunders Terrell (or other variants, sources differ) (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Stefan Grossman

Stefan Grossman (born April 16, 1945) is an American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and singer, music producer and educator, and co-founder of Kicking Mule records.

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Steve Katz (musician)

Steve Katz (born May 9, 1945) is a guitarist, singer, and record producer who is best known as a member of the rock-pop-jazz group Blood, Sweat & Tears.

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The Lovin' Spoonful

The Lovin' Spoonful is a U.S. rock band, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 and well known for a number of hit songs in the 1960s including "Summer in the City", "Do You Believe In Magic", "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?", and "Daydream".

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TK Records

TK Records was an American independent record label founded by record distributor Henry Stone and Steve Alaimo in 1972.

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Tom Winslow

Thomas Griffin "Tom" Winslow (November 13, 1940, Hobgood, North Carolina – October 23, 2010, Albany, New York)Tom Keyser, "Tom Winslow, folk and country-blues musician, dies at 69", Albany Times Union, November 13, 2010.

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Transatlantic Records

Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label.

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Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City.

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Wizz Jones

Raymond Ronald Jones (born 25 April 1939, Thornton Heath, Croydon, Surrey), better-known as Wizz Jones, is an English acoustic guitarist, singer and songwriter.

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Woody Mann

Woody Mann is an American blues guitarist.

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Yazoo Records

Yazoo Records was an American record label founded in the late 1960s by Nick Perls.

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77 Records

77 Records was a British record company and label set up in 1957 by Doug Dobell, the proprietor of Dobell's Jazz Record Shop at 77 Charing Cross Road, London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Gary_Davis

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