REVEREND GARY DAVIS: I AM THE LIGHT OF THIS WORLD : comparem

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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