Gary Davis Style
Gary Davis Style -Various Artists:
A tribute to the finest exemplar of Piedmont Style playing, Rev. Davis’s playing mimicked a rollicking barroom piano, and at times the whole band! It was said of him that he never let a string be still. Davis was a dedicated teacher of this music for seventy years; the players on this CD are his students and ‘grand-students’. Some of them are famous, like Dave van Ronk or Peter Paul and Mary. Others, like Rolly Brown and Ellen Britten are ‘lifers’, musicians who play, teach and achieve some regional notoriety but otherwise work in relative obscurity. About half the musicians on this recording are still kicking. We’re all teaching as fast as we can.