Track Listing

1. Leavin' Blues
2. Cocaine
3. Sally Free And Easy
4. Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair
5. Rock Me Baby
6. Seven Gypsies
7. Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
8. Moanin'
9. Skillet (Good 'N Greasy)
10. Ain't Nobody's Business What I Do
11. Maajan (A Taste Of Tangier) (Guitar Solo)
12. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
13. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
14. My Babe
15. Goin' Down Slow
16. Better Git In Your Soul
17. She Moved Through The Fair (Bonus Track)
18. Mustapha (Bonus Track)
19. Angi (Bonus Track)
20. Davy's Train Blues (Bonus Track)
21. 3/4 A.D.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46860 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks

CD Description
Innovative acoustic guitarist Davey Graham was the first superstar of the British '60s folk explosion. He directly influenced more commercially successful acolytes like Paul Simon, John Renbourn, and Bert Jansch. All three musicians have covered Graham's signature composition, "Angi", the highlightof his 1961 session with Alexis Korner, 3/4 A.D.
By the time of his first solo record, 1963's FOLK BLUES AND BEYOND,Graham's own music had moved away from traditional British and Scottish folk. He began incorporating jazz and blues influences--including Charles Mingus and Leadbelly covers--and elements from a wide variety of ethnic musics, particularly the modal-tuning drones of North Africa. Such influences arefeatured most prominently on the evocatively titled "Maajun(A Taste of Tangier)". Graham's later records would continue exploring his increasingly wide-ranging taste, adding Indian, Scandinavian, and other influences to his distinctive guitar style. This classic early album finds Graham at the start of his lengthy musical journey.

Customer Reviews

Davey Live at the Sage Gateshead
Thirty five years ago I was introduced to the music of "Davy Graham", the album Folk Blues and Beyond and his masterpiece Anji are long time favourites of mine. The digitally remastered CDs are a must have for all "Davey Fans"
I saw Davey live at the Sage Gateshead on monday 29th October he was a treat to watch, speaking to him after the concert was like meeting an old friend.
His new album is available soon I have ordered mine don't miss out get yours now, and see him live if you can.

Peace
Terry Marshall

Un-believable!
The combined value of the original vinyls here(original album, London Hootenany & 3/4 AD EPS) is over £400, which tells you something!

However, listening to it will tell you something else-just how flaming good Davy Graham was and is. Within a minute of the opening track, he lets that famous open D tuning go on the guitar and that's it-you will be gone with it!

Even as early as 1964, there is World Music influences in here with the blues, folk-blues, lounge jazz, folk and everything else. It's extraordinarily GREAT!

This is an album you will never tire of-Davy Graham doesn't have a perfect singing voice, but that said, his voice has an edge, an grittiness and a charm all its' own, and it's perfect as an adornment to THAT guitar playing.

How good a guitar player? Well, every one since Jimi Hendrix on electric guitar has been, at best, very good. And everyone since Davy on acoustic, even Bert Jansch, Al Stewart & Robin Williamson, have been, at best, brilliant.

Davy & Jimi remain completely and inhumanly the best in their respective spheres. It's no surprise you get taken to so many different musical worlds on this & other Davy Graham albums-his guitar playing is just simply from another world together.

Now stop reading this and buy the album-this is a darn good review, but, believe me, the album is 10,000 times better!

Guitarist? Start here...
I would like to humbly apologise to (a) Davy Graham and (b) my entire group of friends (both of them, well, OK, just Pavel then) for not having bought (and raved about) this recording until this week (after seeing the repeat of the wonderful BBC's "Folk Britannica".
If you are a fan of almost any acoustic guitarist in the past 40 years - Roy Harper, Al Stewart, Paul Simon, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, Eric Clapton, [insert name of guitar hero here], then you should, no, MUST have this in your collection.

Stunning technique, amazing invention, exotic combinations - all the jazz, folk, blues and world music radiates from here. What a waste of 40 years, listening to copies (however excellent) of this master.

Now... what else has Amazon got to offer? Ah! "Large as Life and Twice and Natural" - sounds interesting, and what's this... backed by who? Jon Hiseman and Dick Heckstall-Smith and Danny Thompson...? That makes a lot of sense - the ultimate jazz-rock group (Colosseum) with the ultimate folk bass-player... bring it on!