I don’t know that the Daily Dose has ventured into Rev. Gary Davis territory before. If not, it’s about time. Way back when I was a teen-aged blues freak, I found a Rev. Gary Davis record in some little record shop, just sitting there waiting for me in the blues section. It was in the blues section because there wasn’t any other place in this record shop to put it. Rev. Gary Davis played music that messed with gospel, ragtime and blues too. He was a very powerful performer. I was maybe 14 or 15 when I heard a recording of Davis singing Twelve Gates to the City and I had never heard anything like it before.

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Here’s some stories about Rev. Gary Davis.