Name: See What The Lord Has Done For Me
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Come On Brother (Gary Davis)
Let’s Go Round the Wall (Gary Davis)
I Belong to The Band (Gary Davis)
The Old Ship of Zion (Gary Davis)
Save Up Your Money (Gary Davis)
John D. Rockefeller Put the Panic On (Gary Davis)
Blow Gabriel (Gary Davis)
‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus (Gary Davis)
Don’t Move My Bed ‘Till the Holy Ghost Come (Gary Davis)
Great Change Since I Been Born (Gary Davis)
Home (When Shadows Fall) (Gary Davis)
Penitentiary Blues (Gary Davis)
Let’s Go Down to Betty’s (Gary Davis)
Hard Walking Blues (Gary Davis)
Chicken You Can’t Roost Too High (Gary Davis)
Pray For The Lights To Go Out (Gary Davis)
Florida Blues (Gary Davis)
Little Boy (Gary Davis)
Who Made Your Britches (Gary Davis)
Walkin’ The Dog (Gary Davis)
St James Infirmary (Gary Davis)
Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again (Gary Davis)
Yes Sir (Gary Davis)
That’s My Baby Now (Gary Davis)
Old Fashioned Love (Gary Davis)
God’s Gonna Separate (Gary Davis)
See What the Lord Has Done For Me (Gary Davis)
Down Home Rag (Gary Davis)
Dill Pickles Rag (Gary Davis)
That’ll Never Happen No More (Gary Davis)
Piece Without Words (Gary Davis)
You Want A Good Man (Gary Davis)
Treat a Good Man Right (Gary Davis)
Don’t Let My Baby Catch You Here (Gary Davis)
I Wonder What’s Become of Sally (Gary Davis)
Crucifixion (Gary Davis)
Hesitation Blues (Gary Davis)
Cincinnati Flow Rag (Gary Davis)
Joy to Know (Gary Davis)

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The songs on this collection, recorded in 1968 and 1970 at the Pittsburgh apartment of Ernie Hawkins find Reverend Gary Davis in a relaxed mood. The playing is light and loose at times as he reaches back into his vast musical memory to pull one surprise after another from his “bag of tricks” (his nonchalant term for guitar playing). Fingerpicked on the Rev’s Gibson J-200 and a borrowed Martin D12-35, these performances were not for the stage or the recording studio; rather, they chance upon Davis playing reflectively to himself and Ernie, you the listener privy to the intimate musical camaraderie caught on tape. So while not every note is perfectly played, it is perfectly Davis, who wows us with marvelous additions to his songbook and performances that stretch out in masterly ways: a “Blow, Gabriel” that swells in fiery exhortation over twelve minutes; an emotionally wrenching “Crucifixion” just under twenty minutes with neither note nor word wasted. As the title says, these are rare and previously unissued recordings, ones of historic and musical value. It’s uncommon for an artist to bemuse us anew nearly fifty years after his death, but Davis does so here. “That suits me,” he sings joyfully on the opening track, and I guarantee it will suit you, too.

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