One particularly unhappy night in New Paltz in the winter I took a walk with my ipod and shuffle served up "Give Me a Heart to Love You" by the Reverend Gary Davis. I lay on a bench for a long time and listened to that one again and again. You can hear it here - I don't want to put it on youtube acus Smithsonian records has their own channel (there's a nice resource).
Anyway Malachi mentioned "Samson and Delilah" the other night over some Evan Williams and I've been listening to these old records this week. This one I do have for you today is the blog's second song covered by Jorma Kaukonen on Quah, after "Blue Prelude".
Although I have no personal faith, I can still have spiritual experiences from vocal performances like these. Thank you, Reverend.
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We're going to run out of songs covered on Quah, you know.
(And hugs to Gary Davis, natch. I'm a big fan of "Say No to the Devil," myself.)
Hello there.
The dancing girl in that photograph is supposed to be little Megan Ochs, daughter of Phil Ochs.
http://www.revgarydavis.com/dancing.html
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