Back to Prog for a moment....another good suggestion:
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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I like Rev. Davis. As I've said, I was lucky enough to go to U.C. Berkeley in the 60s when all manner of musician and other artists were around. I heard blues on record players and live from real blues players. I had musician friends who played Blues licks. Of course, they couldn't sing them worth anything. (I'm being careful about my four letter words because I had a long post excised for using a four letter word.} I must explain, though. I have a dry sense of humor and posting a spiritual by a guy who looked like John Denver was slightly pulling your leg. That's not to say I wasn't taken by him when I heard him on the radio. And I still like that song. The old blues and spirituals sounded dated, though, in the 60s and 70s. I think my spiritual singers were Marvin Gaye (What's Going On) and Stevie Wonder. I can't imagine that anyone on this thread hasn't heard "What's Going On." If you haven't heard it either run out and buy the album or stream it. |
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
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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." |
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