Just had to get this out of my system...
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He had a big ol' dog. If you didn't give some beer, he'd bite you - Tampa Red, Yank Rachell on Tampa Red's dog
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. Great! One of my all-time favourite tunes, played wonderfully. I keep taking baby steps towards this one, and now I have more video to steal from.
Thanks. A song like this is a complete course in humility.
"A man has got to know his limitations." That was very well done Frankie. Children of Zion is one of the few songs I don't listen to as often in Davis' repertoire. But I gladly watched your whole performance.
Thanks, Eddie. It's an interesting song - kind of equal parts spiritual and work song. On top of that, you have the guitar stuff, which is fiery and unique. A friend of mine who plays music and is not overly familiar with Rev. Davis's music found this one harder to listen to than other things I play.
As a singer, I felt like this required a lot of me. There's not much happening melodically and the accompaniment is kind of stark - just leaves you right out there - so you have to put of much of yourself into the singing as you can dredge up. My favorite recording of Rev. Davis doing it is the one on the Biograph LP. When I first heard the record years and years ago, I thought he sounded kind of tired, and I do think he was feeling pretty sick by then, but his musical imagination was still in great form. Listening again, being older myself, I now hear the depth and commitment in his voice. I tried to honor some of that. Kokomo O
Another great reading, Frankie. Well played, well sung.
I know exactly what you mean about the song--it has a certain starkness to it that I think even Death Don't Have No Mercy, on its face an equally cheery song, somehow lacks. While I'm no singer, I imagine that takes a fair amount out of you to both sing and play a tune like that. let's just say that, in even approaching it, one is forced to confront all of one's native jivey BS.
Thanks, Pan & Zohar.
This kinda bubbled up outta nowhere the other day. I didn't spend a whole lot of time figuring it out, but sometimes you have to play just what's in you to play. Kokomo O
Another winner, and you're getting a great tone out of that guitar. You ought to consider making it, or one like it, a permanent resident.
Super nice, Frank. I prefer RGD's use of this accompaniment style for this song over Cocaine. Much more suited to it, IMO. I've had the same spontaneous bubbling up of the song before myself. Suffice to say yours is way better!
Tags: Rev. Gary Davis
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