Rev. Gary Davis Pink Anderson (Riverside Vinyl RLP 12-611) American Street Songs

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MONO COLLECTION

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

Artists: Reverend Gary Davis, Pink Anderson

Album Title: American Street Songs

Featuring: Harlem Street Spirituals sung by Rev. Gary Davis / Carolina Street Ballads sung by Pink Anderson

Catalogue Number: RLP 12-611

Year/Record Company: Riverside Records (no year noted)

1 LP – Mono - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3                                                                 

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This mono LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: very good                                                              

Shine: some

Scratches: several light and feather

Label Wear: very light (completely readable)                                                                                     

Labels: see photos

Spindle Hole Wear: light   

LP Sound: very good (no skips, no hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: light                                               

Jacket Condition: very good                                                            

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: moderate (no splits, no tape)

Back Ring Wear: very light

Front Ring Wear: very light                                                                     

Ink or pencil marks: on the back of jacket next to song list (see photos)

Water Stains: none                                                                          

Drill Holes: none                                                                                  

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: none

Sleeve Type: anti-static sleeve

Sleeve Wear: very light

Cover: Gene Gogerty

Liner Notes: Kenneth S. Goldstein, Daniel G. Hoffman

Side One

Carolina Street Ballads: Pink Anderson

John Henry

Every Day In The Week

The Ship Titanic

Greasy Greens

Wreck Of The Old 97

I’ve Got Mine

He’s In The Jailhouse Now

Side Two

Harlem Street Spirituals: Rev Gary Davis

Blow Gabriel

Twelve Gates To The City

Samson And Dalilah

Oh, Lord, Search My Heart

Get Right Church

You Got To Go Down

Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning

There Was A Time That I Was Blind

Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis (born Gary D. Davis, April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972), was a blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar and harmonica. His fingerpicking guitar style influenced many other artists. His students include Stefan Grossman, David Bromberg, Steve Katz, Roy Book Binder, Larry Johnson, Nick Katzman, Dave Van Ronk, Rory Block, Ernie Hawkins, Larry Campbell, Bob Weir, Woody Mann, and Tom Winslow. He influenced Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Wizz Jones, Jorma Kaukonen, Keb' Mo', Ollabelle, Resurrection Band, and John Sebastian (of the Lovin' Spoonful).

Davis was born in Laurens, South Carolina, in the Piedmont region. Of the eight children his mother bore, he was the only one who survived to adulthood. He became blind as an infant. He took to the guitar and assumed a unique multivoice style produced solely with his thumb and index finger, playing gospel, ragtime, and blues tunes along with traditional and original tunes in four-part harmony.

In the mid-1920s, Davis migrated to Durham, North Carolina, a major center of black culture at the time. There he taught Blind Boy Fuller and collaborated with a number of other artists in the Piedmont blues scene, including Bull City Red. In the 1940s, the blues scene in Durham began to decline, and Davis moved to New York.

The folk revival of the 1960s invigorated Davis's career. He performed at the Newport Folk Festival. Peter, Paul and Mary recorded his version of "Samson and Delilah", also known as "If I Had My Way", a song by Blind Willie Johnson, which Davis had popularized. "Samson and Delilah" was also covered and credited to Davis by the Grateful Dead on the album Terrapin Station. Eric Von Schmidt credited Davis with three-quarters of Schmidt's "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down", covered by Bob Dylan on his debut album for Columbia Records. The Blues Hall of Fame singer and harmonica player Darrell Mansfield has recorded several of Davis's songs.

Davis died of a heart attack in May 1972, in Hammonton, New Jersey. He is buried in plot 68 of Rockville Cemetery, in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York. (source: Wikipedia)

Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12, 1900 – October 12, 1974) was an American blues singer and guitarist. Anderson was born in Laurens, South Carolina, and raised in nearby Greenville and Spartanburg. He joined Dr. William R. Kerr of the Indian Remedy Company in 1914 to entertain the crowds while Kerr tried to sell a concoction purported to have medicinal qualities. He also toured with Leo "Chief Thundercloud" Kahdot and his medicine show, often with the harmonica player Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson, who was based in Jonesville, South Carolina.

Anderson was recorded by the folklorist Paul Clayton at the Virginia State Fair in May 1950. He recorded an album in the early 1960s and performed at some live venues. He appeared in the 1963 film The Bluesmen. He reduced his activities in the late 1960s after a stroke. Attempts by the folklorist Peter B. Lowry to record Anderson in 1970 were not successful, although apparently he could occasionally summon up some of his past abilities. A final tour took place in the early 1970s with the aid of Roy Book Binder, one of his "students", taking him to Boston and New York.

He died in October 1974 of a heart attack, at the age of 74. He is interred at Lincoln Memorial Gardens, in Spartanburg. Anderson's son, known as Little Pink Anderson (b. July 13, 1954), is a bluesman living in Vermillion, South Dakota.

Syd Barrett, of English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, created the band's name by juxtaposing the first names of Anderson and North Carolina bluesman Floyd Council, having noticed the names in the liner notes of a 1962 album by Blind Boy Fuller (Philips BBL-7512). (source: Wikipedia)

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