In February Judy Collins released her 29th album, Spellbound, a record entirely all her own compositions. She may be the goddess of interpreting songs by Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan, but when it comes to her own words, she is at her brightest.
Judy Collins released her 29th album, Spellbound, a record entirely all her own compositions. She may be the goddess of interpreting songs by Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan, but when it comes to her own words, she is at her brightest.
Reverend Gary Davis (1896-1972), guitar virtuoso and folk-blues giant, moved from Durham, N.C. to NYC, where he struggled for years as a blind street singer and storefront preacher. An instructor at Brownie McGhee’s Harlem-based folk music school, Davis served as a mentor to a generation of acoustic players, including Happy Traum, Eric von Schmidt, Patrick Sky, David Bromberg and Bob Dylan.
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Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards and Brian Jones were on hand to witness this legendary concert, which was filmed for a Granada TV special called Blues and Gospel Train