Reverend Gary Davis - Children of Zion

On Pete Seeger's show Rainbow Quest

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Music

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• Rainbow
• Quest
• Reverend
• Gary
• Davis
• blues
• guitar

[jumba5]

Are people really hating on Pete Seeger? Maybe his banjo skills aren't quite up to par with the Rev's abilities on the guitar, but I admire Pete's genuine enthusiasm for the music and for learning. It's possible that we may not even have this great footage if it weren't for him.

[PHJimY]

@Tobious3000 The dude with the banjo didn`t step all over the Rev. Listen again to the clip. You can hardly hear the banjo. I loved this show because it was just a bunch of people sitting around a kitchen table shooting the shit and playing music. It wasn`t scripted like today`s "Reality" shows, it was a real reality show, no retakes if you made a mistake, just good music. An amazing coincidence that two people on the show had those old Gibson 12 strings with the trapeze tailpieces.

[PHJimY]

@larryguitar54 Look carefully. He uses all four fingers on his left hand.

[willyjefferons0]

whats the tuning here

[willyjefferons0]

this is interesting, inspiring and enjoyable at the same time. brilliant shit

[solargesture]

@TheCastIronCowboy399 get the fuck out of here with your shit music

[PHJimY]

@drunkboxer I can't post a link to it here. I'll see if I can send you a private message.

[drunkboxer]

@PHJimY scan that photo and post it somewhere. I'd like to see it.

[SolAlVla]

Genius - he is always and everywhere a genius!!!!

[TheCastIronCowboy399]

Check out "KAST IRON KOWBOY".Raw christian blues

[PHJimY]

@mtut Thanks for that info mtut. I wonder why Gary would bring two guitars. He was not an alternate tuning guy, but stuck to standard except to play Whistlin' Blues. I saw him at the 1965 Mariposa Folk Festival in Maple Leaf Stadium and he was still playing his SJ200. "Talk to me Miss Gibson." I still have a photo of Rev Gary, Mississippi John, Gord Lightfoot and Tom Kines at a workshop at that festival.

[BlackMonk66]

@mtut I have a Stefan Grossman book of transcriptions that's good for the basics of his playing, though my problem isn't getting it in my heart, it's getting it in my fingers. It's amazing to me that he could not only play this material, but improvise around it. Anyway, according to the book, the only altered tuning he used was on "Whistlin' Blues" which has an odd tuning that comes out to a D6 chord. Grossman says he never heard it used anywhere else. I'll check out those lessons. Thanks.