Rev. Gary Davis: Death Don’t Have No Mercy
This video becomes very interesting soon after the one minute mark.
The Rev. Gary Davis–whose 116th birthday is next Monday–was one of the main bridges that connected the African-American blues performers of the 1930s and 1940s with the mostly white generation of rock and folk performers who now are elder statesmen themselves or already are gone.
Davis had perhaps his greatest influence on Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. His songs also were performed by The Grateful Dead, Ry Cooder, David Bromberg, Dave Van Ronk and others.
Here is a bio of Davis, a discography and what seems like a partial list of covers of his work.
His most popular songs include Cocaine Blues, the traditional If I Had My Way, Hesitation Blues and Sally, Where’d You Get Your Liquor From? This version of Candyman, unfortunately, is an instrumental. Hot Tuna’s version has the lyrics.
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[...] to have influenced Johnny Cash, Elvis, Chuck Berry and others. Vocally, she seems to borrow from the Rev. Gary Davis, or vice [...]
[...] is Candyman, which was written by Rev. Gary Davis. The last few seconds features some history from Kaukonen and Casady. A deeper history and [...]
[...] example. Eric Lugosch brings a unique perspective and crystal clear playing. He plays a lot of Rev. Gary Davis, but doesn’t copy. Instead Lugosch re-imagines and reinterprets the song. That is a big [...]
[...] Train Bobby Darin: Splish Splash Howard DaSilva, Tom Bosley: Little Tin Box Rev. Gary Davis: Death Don’t Have No Mercy Miles Davis: Autumn Leaves Deodato: Also Sprach Zarathustra/Rhapsody in Blue Bo Diddley: Road [...]
[...] Train Bobby Darin: Splish Splash Howard DaSilva, Tom Bosley: Little Tin Box Rev. Gary Davis: Death Don’t Have No Mercy Miles Davis: Autumn Leaves Deodato: Also Sprach Zarathustra/Rhapsody in Blue Bo Diddley: Road [...]
[...] and eccentric acts. He is part rock-and-roll and blues royalty — he took lessons from Rev. Gary Davis — and part Borscht Belt comedian. The bottom line is that he has been making great music for [...]