OK Peter Ya GOT ME STARTED!!

Reverend Gary Davis singing "Oh Lord, Search My Heart"!! Oh this is Bizarre! I've got tears in my eyes just thinking about it. Gotta calm down here. The playing and singing on that are UNEARTHLY! ..but Don't confuse it with his sixties re-recording. The 1930s one is what I'm talking about.

Bosie Sturdivant singing "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down". It's from a Lomax collection (Sandy can fill you in)

My God, the nights I spent in the Paton's living room after 2am just discovering GOLD and more GOLD!

"Happy Time". Once again, in the Paton's collection. Carribean singers I think (Bahamian)

The Staple Singers' "Swing Down Chariot". Roebuck with the vibrato AND Tremolo AND reverb full up on his Strat through a Twin. Nobody else in the world could make that work! He does.

Reverend Gary Davis singing "I Will Do My Last Singing in This Land". A sixties recording. Saw him do this at Mariposa in 1965. Amazing.

Rev. Karnes singing "Called to The Foreign Field". I'm running out of words.....

Rev. Karns singing "I'm Bound For The Promised Land" (to the tune of "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down"(!!?!) He played a Huge Gibson Harp-Guitar and just CRUSHED those bass strings.

Rev. Davis simply destroyed me at that Mariposa I mentioned, when he closed his set with "Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land". No live experience in my life has topped that five minutes.

Jeez y'ad think I'd have SOME religion (other than music) after all that!

Peter I have ALL these on tape, and record...if you wanna listen to them.

Rick