Folk, Blues and Beyond
Folk, Blues and Beyond | ||||
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Studio album by Davey Graham | ||||
Released | January 1965 | |||
Genre | Folk, folk baroque, progressive folk, raga rock, blues, jazz | |||
Length | 44:26 | |||
Label | Decca | |||
Producer | Ray Horricks | |||
Davey Graham chronology | ||||
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Folk, Blues and Beyond is the second studio album by British musician
Background
Graham's first album, The Guitar Player, was almost exclusively jazz based. He was also known for his collaborations with folksinger Shirley Collins, which had established his name in the purist folk communities in Britain.
Most of the tracks on the album are a fusion of traditional western folk/blues and Middle-Eastern music. This synthesis of world sounds was inspired by Grahams frequent traveling across the Asian continent from the early 1950s onward.
Graham also utilizes jazz progressions to re-innovate and contemporize traditional sounds, especially on the blues tracks of the album. For example, the opening track is a cover of "Leavin' Blues", written by Lead Belly, which is a straightforward blues in C. Graham's version uses the DADGAD guitar tuning, and he speeds up the tempo to give it a more 'rocking' sound. His cover is also infused with an exotic, middle eastern sound, accredited to both the tuning and the exotic musical scales he uses throughout the song.
In 2002, a remastered CD version of the album was released in the UK.
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Record Mirror | [2] |
In his
Track listing
- "Leavin' Blues" (Lead Belly)
- "Cocaine" (Reverend Gary Davis)
- "Sally Free and Easy" (Cyril Tawney)
- "Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair" (Traditional; arranged by Davy Graham)
- "Rock Me Baby" (Big Bill Broonzy)
- "Seven Gypsies" (Traditional; arranged by Davy Graham)
- "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf)
- "Moanin'" (Bobby Timmons, Jon Hendricks)
- "Skillet (Good'n'Greasy)" (Traditional; arranged by Davy Graham)
- "Everett Robbins)
- "Maajun (A Taste of Tangier)" (Davy Graham)
- "I Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes" (Blind Willie Johnson)
- "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan)
- "My Babe" (Willie Dixon)
- "Goin' Down Slow" (Jimmy Oden)
- "Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul" (Charles Mingus)
- 2002 reissue bonus tracks:
- "She Moved Through the Fair" (Traditional; arranged by Davy Graham)
- "Mustapha" (Traditional; arranged by Davy Graham)
- "Anji" (Davy Graham)
- "Davy's Train Blues" (Davy Graham)
- "3/4 A.D." (Davy Graham, Alexis Korner)
Personnel
- Davy Graham - vocals, acoustic guitar
- Tony Reeves - double bass
- Barry Morgan - drums, percussion
- Technical
- Gus Dudgeon - recording engineer
- Crispian Woodgate - photography
References
- ^ Allmusic. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (27 February 1965). "Davy Graham: Folk, Blues And Beyond" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 207. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
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