CD: "Live and Kickin"
Label: Just a Memory/Collector's Classics JAM 9133-2, Canada 1997
(all tracks live in Montreal, Canada 1/27/67)
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Review: Blues Access Summer 1998, Issue #34
Rev. Gary Davis - Live & Kickin' (Justin Time Records)
[**ROOSTER PICK**] The Rev. was in his 71st year and
living in Montreal when this live recording was made in
1967 in his adopted hometown. He was clearly "on" this
night, and there's no evidence of diminution of his
considerable talents on the 10 songs in this set.
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Review: by Nick Crews, Dirty Linen June/July 1998, Issue #76
Reverend Gary Davis - Live & Kickin' Just a Memory JAM 9133 (1997; rec. 1967)
Montreal was a happening outpost on the Folk Revival
circuit in 1967 when these performances were captured
there by producer Michael Nerenberg. There is much that
is interesting here, the Muddy Waters disc in particular.
Recorded in a rooming house where the band was
staying, this disc shows Waters and his troupe in an
informal back-stage-type acoustic jam (with Waters'
pianist Otis Spann on guitar on a few cuts). The discs of
Gary Davis and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
document lively performances that completists will
welcome. The Van Ronk CD is a keeper, if for no other
reason than the great version of "Mack the Knife" and the
"W.C. Fields Routine" it contains. However, the sound
quality on all the discs is only fair, with overall production
quality, unfortunately, somewhat less than stellar.
--Nick Crews (Rochester, NY)
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