Davy Graham - Anji

[313starcandy]

He looks like Jon Cryer!!!!!!!!

[frankdialogue]

Only thing, this track ain't from 'The Guitar Player'...I have the album, and the track on there is better fidelity, and if I am not incorrect, acoustic bass...Still, a wonderful track by one of the pioneering acoustic players.

[XxJulius95]

AwEsOmE Song! :D

[Kaaaaatlyn7]

my guitar teacher caan play thiis !

[4Topwood]

I have never heard guitar playing like this. My god.

[Theharrytuttle99]

@4Topwood Check out Bruce Cockburn sometime...i.e. instrumental..."Foxglove" is a good one.

[4Topwood]

@Theharrytuttle99

Yes, thanks, I'm familiar with Bruce Cockburn's music, saw him in concert way back when. He's a superb musician.

But Davy Graham just has something different. Something driven in his music that drove him to play it and drives me to respond to it.

[mrrockmonkey123]

i cant beilive i find that song after so long i search it-

this song was wrote for my grandma )rip(

[toddandhisdog]

Can you tell the story? How did they know each other etc?

[vulgarcowpower]

this sounds like "hit the road jack" same chords too. is it somehow related??

[HaveGtrWillTrvl]

@vulgarcowpower It also sounds like Stray Cat Strut. There's no relation. It's just based around a typical blues/folk descending line.

[FolkieOne]

Great original rendition! I saw Graham and Jansch play in 05 in Belfast. Neither played this song, Jansch refused to claiming he didn't want to play an inferior version in front of the maestro.

[cataloger1]

Was Davey the composer of this tune?

[Howieeeeex]

@cataloger1 yes.

[kildare97]

@cataloger1 yep

[trebell71]

What a master guitarist he was. Wonderful.

[jeremykyleftw]

fuck paul simon!

[yerbadger]

@jeremykyleftw A little harsh! Paul Simon was quite good; lots of jazz chords. My brother used to play Anji very well, but he always found certain Paul Simon songs hard to work out. According to Bryan Wawzenek (International Editor, Gibson) Simon's guitar playing is underrated. He also said that Simon was influenced by Davy Graham! I suppose, though, that it is always easier to hear how good someone is when they play an instrumental. Ever heard Ralph McTell play ragtime?

[ZeppelinClassics]

Oh my daze this is amazing. *_*

[robbie1070476]

Even the record couldn't help but boogie along..

[clarkewi]

Sounds like a love song. Much "warmer" that Bert Jansche's cover and with a "lighter" tempo. Bert's version seems a completely different song (which I love also).

[snake1612]

@clarkewi Totally agree! My favorite verson being Bert's... Anyway, there are three great versions, these two plus Simon's... Folk rules!

[MrAshToast]

<--CLICK ME<--- for my classical guitar version of this!

[shockingblue55]

What a brilliant piece of music, thanks.

[RT83]

That's NOT the original Davy Graham recording.

[poetryandbeyond]

@RT83

Actually, it is. I have the 3/4 AD Topic EP on vinyl and the reissue of same on the Folk, Blues and Beyond CD on Fledg'ling. The EP was the source of this recording.

[RT83]

@poetryandbeyond Ah, that'd be why. The version I know is from The Guitar Player, which must have been a different recording.

[poetryandbeyond]

@RT83

Ah, that explains it. The version on The Guitar Player CD is Davy's re-recording of the tune for his mid-70s album All That Moody. That CD has songs from All That Moody and the live After Hours CD. There was an earlier reissue of The Guitar Player on the See For Miles label (no longer available) that added the original 3/4 AD EP.

[ascheepe]

I never heard of him before, what a shame. I was looking for cry me a river which I heard somewhere when I stumbled upon his version, looking for songs to play ever since. Thanks for posting this.

[MusicalGhoul]

The ORIGINAL...and BEST

[OlRetro]

Kool - I got to hear the original - thanx! Regards, The '62 Mathew St. Band (1 Man-Full Group Retro)

[bertwindon]

Another excellen discovery for me. Thanks youtube, poster, and Davy Graham - good to make your aquaintance !

[sawabojo]

thank you for this

[wozawoz1]

Simply Amazing!

[operace]

Thanks for the upload. Davey used to play free lunchtime concerts at a theatre on Southampton Row, close to the Unversity of London. Place packed with students and technicians munching sarnies and swilling cheap wine, only stopping to get gobsmacked by amazing guitar. Never the same thing twice, either. It could be a 40-minute Arabic impro or belting out old Buddy Holly with fiddly bits, or his increasingly interesting forays into DADGAD. Does anyone know if these sessions were tape/filmed?

[hosenshizer]

I met and Saw him in 1967 greek Street a great player Incredible to hear this Special piece again.

[MacrocheiraKaempferi]

Thanks to Will Hodgkinson's "Guitar man" book for introducing me to this song.

And thanks for the upload.

[johnmckinlay67]

@MacrocheiraKaempferi Same thing here, first heard it mentioned in John Martyn's book. Nice .

[InfernalCableMan]

@MacrocheiraKaempferi same here. just started reading the book and had never heard the song so i looked it up.

[TheOtherTom94]

@MacrocheiraKaempferi same that's where i got the song referance from, great book :)

[edmayle]

@MacrocheiraKaempferi i was aware of the song but what a book, the book he mentions "zen guitar" is another great read.

[bartotheref]

During a guitar workshop I was lucky to attend, John Renbourn said this song incredibly influenced acoustic guitar music, since it was not based neither on travis picking, nor on standard-alternate picking. Thus, Graham showed it was possible to "escape" from traditional schemes, and opened the way to the transformation from blues fingerstyle (or should I say fingerpicking?) to celtic fingerstyle, which included also folk elements coming from tha Anglo-Saxon tradition.

[mikaelavuorio]

Thrilling beauty. Thanks for the upload!

[deonal]

nice to hear the original, i've listend to jansch and simon too, i have a cover on this if ya care to view...