Name: Give in Kind
Brand: Red House Records
SKU: 180537
Price: 14.91 GBP
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Give in Kind

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Album: Give in Kind
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Good Liquor	More Info...	0:03
2)	Loneliest Road That I Know	More Info...	0:04
3)	Lay Down By My Side	More Info...	0:05
4)	I Will Be Your Friend	More Info...	0:05
5)	I Love My Job	More Info...
6)	Layla, Layla	More Info...	0:04
7)	Honeydew Melon Rag	More Info...	0:03
8)	Six Cold Feet of Ground	More Info...	0:04
9)	Grandma Is Dancing	More Info...	0:03
10)	What You Doin'	More Info...	0:03
11)	Watch Over Me	More Info...	0:05
12)	I Don't Know	More Info...	0:03
13)	Don't You Leave Me Here	More Info...	0:04
14)	Joppatowne Intro	More Info...	0:01
15)	Joppatowne	More Info...	0:04
16)	God's Unchanging Hand	More Info...	0:03

Album: Give in Kind
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Good Liquor	More Info...	0:03
2)	Loneliest Road That I Know	More Info...	0:04
3)	Lay Down By My Side	More Info...	0:05
4)	I Will Be Your Friend	More Info...	0:05
5)	I Love My Job	More Info...
6)	Layla, Layla	More Info...	0:04
7)	Honeydew Melon Rag	More Info...	0:03
8)	Six Cold Feet of Ground	More Info...	0:04
9)	Grandma Is Dancing	More Info...	0:03
10)	What You Doin'	More Info...	0:03
11)	Watch Over Me	More Info...	0:05
12)	I Don't Know	More Info...	0:03
13)	Don't You Leave Me Here	More Info...	0:04
14)	Joppatowne Intro	More Info...	0:01
15)	Joppatowne	More Info...	0:04
16)	God's Unchanging Hand	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Personnel: Guy Davis (vocals, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitars, 5 string banjo, didgeridoo, harmonica); W'ali Muhammad (electric guitar); Ken Whitely (four stringed banjo, mandolin); Zoe B. Zak (accordion, background vocals); Keith Slattery (piano, Hammond B3 organ); Gary Burke (drums); David Helper (background vocals).
Recorded at The Clubhouse, Rhinbeck, New York and Three Bays Studio, Elizaville, New York.
Guy Davis has developed into a consummate bluesman. He's listened hard to classic Delta blues and based his style on it, without ever becoming a carbon copy of the greats. Instead they're his jumping-off point into something as individual as "Layla, Layla," where didgeridoo makes an appearance, or the poignant "Joppatowne." Equally adept on guitar, banjo, and harmonica, he's become a force of nature, with the ability to write a song like "I Don't Know" that sounds as if it had come directly from the '30s, alongside covers of Fred McDowell, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sleepy John Estes. The originals and older work mesh perfectly, the sign of a real bluesman. And, of course, he's capable of working the other side of the coin to blues, in gospel, as the closer, "God's Unchanging Hand," clearly shows. This is the tradition reborn and revitalized. Davis' support is wonderfully sympathetic, but he's completely at the center of things, the motivator and mover of this music, and a purveyor of the real blues. His lineage is obvious, and he's the new generation, doing it right and keeping it real. ~ Chris Nickson

Professional Reviews

Living Blues (7-8/02, p.51) - "...Davis really hits his stride, taking material from the likes of Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sleepy John Estes, and Big Bill Broonzy and twisting it like musical taffy, pulling and stretching the songs until they fit his eclectic postmodern style..."

Mojo (Publisher) (7/02, p.108) - "...You are in the hands of a musician fascinated by older music but too independent to replictae it..."