Topic: Marie Knight

[eagle rockin daddy]

Marie Knight, who sang with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, has come out with a killer tribute album to Reverend Davis.  A great place to check it out is her myspace site:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=190374265

It is amazing, just amazing and inspiring.

Mike

[Parlor Picker]

Great stuff!  Reading the small print on the album cover shown, is Larry Campbell the featured guitarist?  I have not heard of him, but whoever he is, he sure sounds good.

(Perhaps he's Weenie's love child...)

[jostber]

Marie Knight is one of my favourite soul singers ever! This CD shared with Judy Clay is a classic:



Love that 'Comes the Night', but the greatest killer track here is 'Say It Again'. Hear it and be moved. Looking forward to hear the new album. Gotta check out the MySpace later today!

[uncle bud]

Larry Campbell was the guitarist in Dylan's band on the neverending tour for several years. He's been around, played with a lot of big-name folks. Tasty player as I recall.

[jostber]

He also played
in this pretty unknown band. Saw them live a couple of times. Great shows and music.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:azfwxqlhld6e

[Pan]

Came across this video.



Cheers

Pan

[Pan]

Some of those duets with Sister Rosetta Tharpe are really something! Here are two:





Her own gospel recordings are stellar too.

The Reverend Gary Davis tribute record sounds tempting. Has anyone given it a try?

Cheers

Pan

Edited to chage a video that appeared twice.

[CF]

Sounds good. Strange the subject of Rev. Gary Davis never came up during that interview.
I wonder if it was her idea to cover Davis songs?

[Mike Billo]

 Larry Campbell was also Levon Helm's Guitarist for his final three albums.
"Dirt Farmer", "Electric Dirt" and "Live At The Ryman".

  Campbell's Guitar playing (as well as his fiddling) is excellent on those three albums.

  This Marie Knight album certainly seems to be a "must own" 

[eagle rockin daddy]

Apparently, the idea was Larry Campell's.  Mrs. Knight had never heard of Rev. Davis before.  The album is great.  An old friend, Dave Keyes toured a bit with her as her pianist.  If you go to his site:  http://www.davekeyes.com/,

click on the video page, and scroll down to the one with Marie Knight.  It's pretty good.  The other videos aren't bad either.  Dave kills it.

Mike