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Reverend Gary Davis and Pink Anderson - Gospel, Blues and Street Songs [Recorded 1950-1956] (1991)

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Reverend Gary Davis and Pink Anderson - Gospel, Blues and Street Songs [Recorded 1950-1956] (1991)

Reverend Gary Davis and Pink Anderson - Gospel, Blues and Street Songs [Recorded 1950-1956] (1991)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 194 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 117 MB | Covers - 5 MB
Genre: Country Blues, Acoustic Blues, Gospel | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OBC/Riverside Records (00025218052429)

This album is one of the cornerstones of Riverside Records' "Original Blues Classics" series. Regardless of the moniker, these sides loom large in the available works of seminal blues icons Pink Anderson and Rev. Gary Davis. Both performers hail from the largely underappreciated Piedmont blues scene - which first began to flourish in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - near the North/South Carolina state border. Anderson's seven tracks were recorded in Charlottesville, VA, on May 29, 1950 - while he was literally on the road. His highly sophisticated and self-accompanied style of simultaneously picking and sliding - accomplished using a half-opened jackknife - could pass for an electronic effect…