Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams “Let Us Get Together” by Rev. Gary Davis скачать в хорошем качестве

Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams “Let Us Get Together” by Rev. Gary Davis

This performance is part of our online series: Reverend Gary Davis: In Search of the Harlem Street Singer. The New York Guitar Festival invited a dozen of our favorite artists to explore the music of the blind blues musician Reverend Gary Davis. Rev. Gary Davis performed on the streets of Harlem from the late 1940s until his death in 1972. He is one of those curious figures in music history who should be famous, but who’s also a lot better known than you might think. Overcoming poverty, racial discrimination and blindness, Davis made influential recordings and festival appearances, and his songs have been covered by The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Peter Paul & Mary, and Bob Dylan. Davis himself recorded as Blind Gary Davis and Rev. Gary Davis – he was ordained as a minister in the 1930s – and the two names seem to reflect the two halves of his personality.  Religious imagery fills his songs, and his version of the blues is heavily colored by the sounds of early gospel music.  But his guitar picking had a strong ragtime feel, and Mr. Davis was known to be, shall we say, a very secular guy when Mrs. Davis wasn’t around.  We know this because for most of the 60s and until his death in 1972, his Harlem apartment became a pilgrimage site for dozens of young guitarists eager to learn from someone who had lived the blues and played them from birth.  David Bromberg, Stefan Grossman, Dave Van Ronk, and Bob Weir are just some of the many students who left his apartment with new skills and often colorful, and occasionally off-color, stories.  The husband and wife American roots music team of Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams made their first album together in 2015, after seven years of playing in Levon Helm’s band.  They’ve also played together with Jorma Kaukonen, Phil Lesh, and many others.  Larry was also a member of Bob Dylan’s “Never Ending Tour” band for many years.  He recently recovered from the COVID19 virus.  The NYGF and the performing artists are asking viewers to donate to MusiCares. Learn more about the charitable foundation of The Recording Academy’s MusicCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, and donate to help the music community affected by the pandemic, here:  www.grammy.com/musicares/get-help/musicares-coronavirus-relief-fund Full schedule: Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal - Monday, May 4 Amythyst Kiah - Tuesday, May 5 Fantastic Negrito -Wednesday, May 6 Bill Frisell - Thursday, May 7 Dom Flemons - Friday, May 8 Sonia de los Santos - Saturday, May 9 Jorma Kaukonen - Sunday, May 10 Kaia Kater - Monday, May 11 Brandon Ross - Tuesday, May 12 Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams -Wednesday, May 13 Warren Haynes - Thursday, May 14 Larkin Poe - Friday, May 15 #NYGF2020 #HarlemStreetSinger #ReverendGaryDavis