Rev. Gary Davis I used to listen to every Saturday morning on Robert Johnson's Blues show on WDET-FM! What a wonderful memory this brings back! Such natural talent!

This is enough to make an atheist jealous. It's too beautiful not to feel anything from it.

@thecommongoodtube

3 жыл бұрын

As an atheist, I agree. I grew up Pentecostal and gave it up at around 16, but these beautiful old gospel songs get down deep into the bones of a man...

@thegreatchain7112

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecommongoodtube Call on IESOUS YESHUA JESUS CHRiST and stay out of the CIA fake churches

@thegreatchain7112

2 жыл бұрын

notice these Satanist elites never mention the great black spiritual leader ! Gary Davis !

@duanecolbert7632

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecommongoodtube ohh yeah ❤️

@duanecolbert7632

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecommongoodtube thank you Jesus

tremendous performance by gary davis .. and understand that donovan and shawn phillips are showing great respect and awe for the reverend ,, a couple minutes into the song ,, pete gets going and lets the fellows know that they can join in .. and obviously they enjoy it with their voices and their feet tapping along .

I sat up and played all night with the Rev. after a concert, I was a concert promoter for the Seattle Folklore Society and got to meet all the great bluesmen, for which I feel eternally blessed. If you like the Rev. there's all kinds of stuff on youtube. He was a moving and powerful performer, just as down to earth as an old shoe.

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

@SmokestackRelics

Жыл бұрын

That's so beautiful my friend, thank you for sharing your story ❤️

@davisworth5114

Жыл бұрын

@@amytaylor8932 Thank you!

@MulberryGate

10 ай бұрын

you certainly are eternally blessed

@davisworth5114

5 ай бұрын

@@amytaylor8932Thank you, I'm 77, I play every day and I'm much better now, great to know so many appreciate The Rev. he was an amazing man.

Real music, inspired by real faith, by a real believer in Messiah Jesus. I had a close friend in the 60's who took lessons from Gary Davis, and he talked about his faith easily and naturally. One of the best music videos online.

If this don`t make a poor sinner stand up and shout I love Jesus nothing will!

Forever grateful to Pete, for the Rainbow Quest series. Best TV ever, and without him, the world wouldn´t have this, and so many other gems of humanity.

@PHJimY

2 жыл бұрын

For sure. Many thanks to Pete & Toshi.

@adamjacobrogers9155

Жыл бұрын

Thank God Pete was blacklisted, leading to the Rainbow Quest series.

@RocRizzo

9 ай бұрын

Pete and Toshi are responsible for this, and the rest of Rainbow Race. They allow the music to be remembered forever. Thanks Pete and Toshi.

Divine fire. That man was a conduit for mighty forces. I was privileged to meet him, shake his hand, and humbly thank him just a few weeks before he died. He still had all of his great power and when people heard him play and sing they were speechless.

@markewings7525

4 жыл бұрын

Wow you shook his hand

@matthewchambers5401

4 жыл бұрын

My ass

@samuelsholder2789

4 жыл бұрын

thats cool ur blessed

@iicjguitar0416

2 жыл бұрын

What did his hand feel like???

@duanecolbert7632

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your kind words and I know they are true.though I never met man in the flesh i feel as I know him through the spirit.hes a vessel for God alright.a man flesh and blood like you and me but gods vessel.amazing how much a little humbleness can and will do.thank you Jesus

Best live performance in the history of television?

@billprindle1613

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@samuelsholder2789

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah if reverend was the only one in the video

@brandonwichmann4110

3 жыл бұрын

@@samuelsholder2789 He’s the only one I saw in this video?? If there were others, we’ll sure, I’ll take your word for it....

Oh, when I was out in the world of sin I had no one to be my friend Jesus came and he taken me in Glory, hallelu And he taken my feet out the miry clay He placed them up on a rock to stay I thank God that I can say Glory, hallelu O, Glory how happy I am O, Glory how happy I am My soul is washed in the blood of the lamb Glory, hallelu O, Glory how happy I am Yeah, glory how happy I am My soul is washed in the blood of the lamb Glory, hallelu I was out in darkness and I could not see Jesus came and he rescued me He claimed me and gave me a victory Glory, hallelu And one day while Jesus was passing by He set my sinful soul on fire He made me laugh and he made me cry Glory, hallelu Whoa! Yeah, glory how happy I am My soul is washed in the blood of the lamb Glory, hallelu Whoa, glory how happy I am Oh, glory how happy I am My soul is washed in the blood of the lamb Glory, hallelu When I could not understand Jesus, he give me a lending hand Led me away to the promised land Glory, hallelu Oh, well he give me a horn and he told me to blow Go in peace and sin no more He led me away to the upright shore Glory, hallelu Whoa, glory how happy I Yes! My soul is washed in the blood of the lamb Glory, hallelu Well, glory Yeah! My soul is washed in the blood of the lamb Glory, hallelu I know something that's mighty swell A sweet little story I love to tell Jesus saved my soul from Hell Glory, hallelu Oh, stand back Satan, get out of my way I don't want to hear not a word you say I'm on my way to the King's highway Glory, hallelu Well thank God I got over at last Thank God I got over at last My feet is planted in the narrow path Glory, hallelu Whoa, glory how happy I am Whoa, glory how happy I am My soul is washed in the blood of the lamb Glory, hallelu When I had no home to claim I begin to call on Jesus' name He saved me from old Satan's chains Glory, hallelu Now I'm fire-baptized and holy ghost-filled I'm out here to do my master's will I must keep going, I must keep Glory, hallelu Well, glory Whoa, glory how happy I am My soul is washed in the blood of the lamb Glory, hallelu Yeah, glory how Yeah! My soul is washed in the blood of the lamb Glory, hallelu

@ProfesserLuigi

4 жыл бұрын

Goodness that's a lot of lyrics.

@davisworth5114

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Caleb!

@samuelsholder2789

4 жыл бұрын

gary davis has a unique way with words

Thank God for film, audio and video to capture these moments.

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

@SmokestackRelics

Жыл бұрын

Amen!!

What strikes me about these old black bluesmen apart from there amazing music is they've got style and they are some of the coolest muthers to walk the earth they just ooze laidbackness

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

Along with Blind Blake, the greatest guitarist ever to record. Words can't express how great the two were.

@herbythechef7624

3 жыл бұрын

For sure 2 incredible fingerpickers. I am amazed by what the reverend and blake could do

@BarryBiesanz

2 жыл бұрын

He said Blake had a “sporting right hand”. I saw him twice in Detroit at the Retort.

@mortonharley

3 ай бұрын

Davis admired Blake and rightfully so. Blake was a bit older than Davis and already famous, when Davis started performing. Davis always said he learned the most from Blake and his "sporting right hand"

This is for real... here it is... and over seven minutes of honest man and music... when does this ever happen?

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

@toddschrocatart

2 жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏

The Lord is your friend. Give yourself to Him and sin don't matter anymore. It might take time to get on the straight and arrow and God knows I ain't right but every day I praise his sweet name AND I AM HAPPY. Hallelujah!

listened to his music ,many years ago in my home in Ireland ,the words always come back to me

This made my heart smile makes me wanna dance like lil kid 🤣💓💓 God is so good💖 "Jesus saved my soul from hell" AMENNNNN!!!🙏

@duanecolbert7632

2 жыл бұрын

I got you sister.thats my favorite part too.just as simple as that, just by believing he saved us,we are saved, thank you Jesus!! keep on dancing sister ❤️

One man's powerful testament of pure faith on the Father's grace and inspiring this beautiful song. It's a damn near perfect message wrapped in song and lyric forms. Blessed are those who hear this and let spirituality and altruism grow in their heart. Shawn and Donovan are stunned.

@SmokestackRelics

Жыл бұрын

Amen brother!!!! Couldn't be worded better ❤️

@KesslerWatsonMusic

6 ай бұрын

And Pete won’t sing about his soul being washed in the blood while getting in the way of the preachers music and message by muddying it up and trying to make it about music when it’s about Jesus

OH glory how happy this song makes me

There'd of been no rock 'n roll without the wonderful ol' blues players like the talented Rev Davis...

Donovan and the other fellow don't look nearly as excited as I was when I first heard this. I listened to this every day for months when i first heard it.

@chris7662

4 жыл бұрын

Seeger was prolly annoying the shit out of 'em both! I mean the dude was"different". Seeger that is. I like much of what Gary Davis introduced "US" to. His style was like a taproot for modern day music in some ways.

@samuelsholder2789

4 жыл бұрын

takes years to wrap your mind around his picking style it is impossible to imitate his timing

@PHJimY

2 жыл бұрын

@@chris7662 You must not be familiar with the format of this program. It was patterned after a kitchen party and the performers sat around a kitchen table with a pot of coffee and anyone was welcome to join in. We all should be so thankful to Pete and Toshi for the many great performances that they preserved for us.

@billgreen2348

2 жыл бұрын

@@PHJimY Righto. Donovan and (I think) Shawn Phillips just look stunned, not unexcited.

wow...what a singer and player...doesn't get any better than this...

Man's old and strong belief, old god's final sake, lord..

It's a shame Rev. Gary Davis is yet to be inducted in the RRHOF. I'm so glad Elizabeth Cohen will be inducted in the RRHOF this year though.

Ιn the presence of the Reverand ,i think everybody had second thoughts about his guitar or vocal skills !

Jesus loves you

Song brings a tear to my eye

@duanecolbert7632

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed mine too brother

Less Is More, that's for sure: Voice + fingers, no more needed. A beautiful melody energized by spellbinding guitar work and delivered with genuine passion. Timeless. Name-drop Opportunity: The Rev. Gary Davis played at Elliot's Books in New Haven, CT in the early Sixties (long enough ago that smoking was still allowed -- even in a book store. I was fortunate to get a 2nd-row seat, and even more fortunate to eavesdrop on the Reverend, taking his break directly in front of me with his wife, being softly but intensely lectured about his indoor cigar smoking---possibly not for the first time =:^)---and his short, gruff replies. It was nice to get a glimpse of everyday life from someone I regarded as a musical icon and still do.

I love this video so much, what a remarkable historic performance from a truly unique extraordinary and soulful musician, the banjo sounds great in the background

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

I never get tired of watching this.

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

Beautiful playing, he’s right on it. Great quality

What you are seeing is a God given talent no doubt about it. What a wonderful gift this man had, what a wonderful man of God he was, he is with the Lord now.

Raw and untainted divinity just radiating!

love this, I don't get tire of listening to it.

Beautiful song sung straight from the man's heart

@gregnormal4

Жыл бұрын

Hello!!! How are you doing? Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you are a fan? Have a great day… Stay Safe!

Amen and Amen again!!!🙏🎶

Thank you! For those who need more songs about Jesus, I want to recommend : "Gloryland" - Surefire Bluegrass Band, Beulah Land, The Lord Is My Light,.....

Ohhh God Bless this man and everyone.i didn't expects this but i at the same time i did,,heyyyy thank you Jesus

The Bible says call no man father, pastor teacher or Reverand, but I be honored to have the great preacher Gary Davis as my spiritual leader ! Absolutely the best Christian blues guitarist ! God 🙏 bless you Preachers peacher the great Gary Davis

Thanks for the upload - it's fantastic . God bless you all .

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

@matthewwilliams7735

3 жыл бұрын

And may God bless you brother.

A singing and playing lesson. It is soo funny. The banjo player is trying to get them to sing along on the chorus, but they are afraid.

100% pure concentrated soul

Always moves me to the bone...x

what a pretty song

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

Glad Gary Davis was happy

lovely so authentic. real music comes from the heart, emotion

I'm here because the Blood On The Tracks Dylan documentary. Glad it pointed me to this talent.

The Rev plays Miss Gibson with such skill it becomes overwhelming!!! He has a whole band playing with him, it seems almost effortless yet so complex to anyone who knows anything about playing a guitar! Words can't covey what he has going on, it is stunning.

Thanks for posting breathtaking

Donavan is stunned that the guy isn't just playing three chords down in first position. Imagine? he is NOT playing just G D and A...God love yah Gary Davis... your ARE the man... Pick those strings pick em hard...!

One of the greatest,!

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

So, Special this is! I can't help but wonder who else from yester years was like this man that, didn't make it on a recording. Wow! Clearly this man & his music is of historical importance for the ages. I'm currently not especially Happy or religious. If your watching or reading this and his other live cuts or albums ur one of us. Your Good Soul is connected to the universe. Blessed Be.

blues also was the forerunner to gospel also . . . this is cool.

Dio ha dato questo meraviglioso dono del suono e del canto al Reverendo per annunciare il Suo verbo.

best song ever

Love how many times pete tries to end the song. Rev is like...nope!

When I decided to learn guitar 30 years ago, a Stefan Grosman tab book by the Reverend Gary Davis was all they had in the library by way of tuition. In an interview Stefan asked him why he only played with his thumb and forefinger and not his other fingers and Davis said something along the lines of, that's all you need, the others get in the way. I thought that sounded pretty logical and 30 years on I still agree with him. I can't recall anyone else just using the thumb and forefinger only, so basically that interview shaped the whole of my playing during that time. Great to see him in this, one of his best. :)

@markreddoch6047

2 жыл бұрын

Merle Travis played that way

@tarqu1no39

2 жыл бұрын

@@markreddoch6047 Ah thanks, I've never seen him play. I'll check him out :)

@gtrjay55

2 жыл бұрын

Freddie King, Johnny Winter.

Love the video. Thanks for posting.

7 minutes of pure joy !

Awesome singer too

A time capsule to the sublime. Incredible. Very meaningful as well as an artistic masterpiece... and that's a 12 string there I recently noticed!

ernie Hawkins escorted the the rev to this show

what a gift to see this. Pete Seeger and Donovan too. who is the 3rd guy in the back? Gary Davis is inspiring every time.

@TheNevilleGoddardChannel

2 жыл бұрын

I think he is the singer from the Small Faces, but his hair looks a bit dark here

@dmlevitt

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheNevilleGoddardChannel thanks bud. I think you are right. happy new year!

Glory!!! Thank you Jesus!!!

WOW... It is simply great! ❤❤❤

Favorite since the early sixties.

Shout out to NYC the Mecca of the Blues and Folk Revival. Rev Gary Davis is a LEGEND.

Amen brother!!!!!!

Um mestre

O live forever!!!

MARAVILHOSO DEMAIS .

Only using a thumb & index finger. Incredible.

Seeger, Donovan, and Shawn Phillips

I like Seeger a lot, but here I'd rather just hear the Reverend's guitar.

@wsmith4906

4 жыл бұрын

Pete Seeger has always been full of himself. Most communists are that way.

@pablocarrascal7537

4 жыл бұрын

he is helping him. I don't think Reverend bothered

@PHJimY

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone who was a fan of the Rainbow Quest TV show knows that it was like a kitchen party; a kitchen table with a pot of coffee and anyone was welcome to join in. If you made a mistake, there were no do-overs, it stayed there. Two cameras and one mic.

@jakeestrada1239

2 жыл бұрын

Gary asked him to help play, was all friendly lol

Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest TV series; along Gary Davis, Donovan and Shawn Philip; 1966

Hell yeah, good stuff!

Shared on Google+, April 30, 2018

I'm happy

@tamaracolbert1435

4 жыл бұрын

Oh God bless you💖

@markewings7525

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and I'm grateful, thank you darling

Not even Gary nor the Holy Spirit could stope Pete from “playing/ singing along”

Shawn Phillips is the individual sitting next to the equally awestruck Donovan Leitch. This was recorded in 1967.

Reminds me of the Bob Dylan film "Don't Look Back" where Donovan came across as a lost little boy. Maybe that was just the default persona for Donovan at the time.

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

Genius!

@amytaylor8932

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, how are you doing today 👋👋 I hope you’re having a great day so far this is a great music God bless you

A very Young Donovan in the background and the Eternal Ham Seeger trying to steal the shot. Took him most of the vid to figure out key. Reverend Davis was the best!

Sensacional!

Donavan be giving Pete the stink eye, while Shawn looks like he's in a trance watching the Rev.

@TheNevilleGoddardChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Who is that guy Shawn?

This is .... magnificent. First time I've seen him play live. What year was this recorded ? 60s ? A young looking Pete Seeger.

@sunbrosolaire3952

4 жыл бұрын

Just look it on IMDb it should be around 62, the programme is"The Rainbow Quest"

@roybean7166

Жыл бұрын

@@sunbrosolaire3952 Hey, thanks, only saw your reply now, 2 yrs later. Roy b, Cape Town, south 🇿🇦 africa.

@ValleyoftheRogue

Жыл бұрын

@@sunbrosolaire3952 It is later than that. Donovan Leitch is on here, so it is several years after that. This was from a 1967 episode of "Rainbow Quest," which Seeger hosted.

I like his playing, but his songs always seem so sad!

REV GARY DAVIS VEVO CHANNEL!

Donovan ao fundo...demais!

There is the reverend, Pete, Donovan here. Who is the third in the audience? No it is not Ethan Hawke. It is a very young Gordon Lightfoot.

Rev giving a guitar lesson to Donavan lol

@samuelsholder2789

4 жыл бұрын

reverend was probably a great teacher

@DasaLetsPlay

3 жыл бұрын

@@samuelsholder2789 He most definitly was, just look at Stefan Grossman, he learned a lot from Rev Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt.

@herbythechef7624

3 жыл бұрын

The reverend was a great teacher. He first hand taught stefan grossman and ive learned all i know about fingerpicking from stefan

Yeah.

Thank you for sharing. Is that Donovan in the background?

@Alicia-qi8km

6 ай бұрын

It is😊

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

only 208 thumbs up?

@davisworth5114

4 жыл бұрын

youtube has been deleting comments

El shaddai

Splendide

Does he bar his thumb on the third fret for the G chord?

@davisworth5114

Жыл бұрын

yes

They butchered the film !!! They cut the beginning of it where he says the song came to him from the Holy Spirit in Lake George NY

@alydarrelaxing

2 жыл бұрын

Assholes !!! That was almost as good as the song !!!

Ernie Hawkins took him to that show