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Say No to the Devil by Ian Zack5/24/2023 Just a little further along the musical family tree comes Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Bob Dylan and suddenly there’s The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Rock And Roll becomes, simply, Rock. King - these are the names that the public associates with the American roots music we know as traditional blues. Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and later on B.B. These are guys who challenged and expanded the parameters of their genre without even making it obvious that they were doing anything more than playing the same sort of stuff that their contemporaries were doing, except for one thing: from a musical standpoint, in bringing spectacular complexity to the method of presentation of traditional melodies they were moving the music to a new level. If you want to read about someone who played jazz like Davis played the blues, you might be reading about Art Tatum. Maybe you like jazz as well, maybe classical music. That’s why you’re here, reading about Reverend Gary Davis. Reverend Gary Davis entertains guests at a party for his 63rd birthday, in 1959.PhotoSound Associates
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