Guy Davis, Legacy - 54m 1s

Tracks & Durations

1. Uncle Tom's Dead	4:47
2. Pay Day	3:16
3. Run Milly Run	3:30
4. Come Back Baby	3:57
5. Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms	2:41
6. I just Can't Help Loving You	4:39
7. Drop Down Mama	4:00
8. Things About Coming My Way	3:58
9. Red Goose	2:19
10. Hikin' Jerry	3:58
11. I'm Gone	2:19
12. See See Rider	2:47
13. Long as You Get It Done	2:57
14. Cypress Grove	5:06
15. We All Need More Kindness In This World	3:36

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Review

Guy Davis started his performing career as an actor--he was Dr. Josh Hall on One Life to Live in the 1980s and he played Robert Johnson in the off-Broadway play Trick the Devil--and his first recordings, while quite good, sometimes sounded as if he were just playing the role of a bluesman. On Legacy, Davis's seventh CD, his honey-and-gravel voice has mellowed, his intricate guitar picking has sharpened, and all traces of his earlier staginess have gone. When he plays Mississippi John Hurt's "Pay Day" or Lightnin' Hopkins's "Come Back Baby" he brings an authority to the music that only comes from deep understanding. And his own songs, such as the moody and moving "I Just Can't Help Loving You" or the jittery, banjo-driven "Red Goose," show that he has assimilated the old styles and has found a way to bring them into the modern world without sounding like a mere imitator. On Legacy, Guy Davis serves notice that he isn't merely acting as a bluesman, but that he is emerging as the genuine article. --Michael John SimmonsAnother superb release from one of the greats of the new country blues revival. The CD features 8 brand-new Davis originals and 7 imaginative new turns on classics by masters like Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt, Sleepy John Estes and Lead Belly. A 2004 WC Handy Awards nominee in two categories, Davis tops himself yet again with this stunning all-acoustic recording that makes manifest why his popularity is ever on the rise.

The CD's packaging is particularly inventive. The booklet includes a tongue-in-cheek "comic book" story of Guy and the Devil at the crossroads drawn by the "other Guy Davis" - the acclaimed graphic novel illustrator.

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