Folk, Blues & Beyond...

by Davy Graham

Folk, Blues & Beyond... cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1965
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 51:03
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Davy Graham applies his complex, jazz-influenced fingerstyle technique to traditional blues standards and original compositions. His incorporation of DADGAD tuning and North African scales onto the acoustic guitar deeply influenced the structural evolution of the British folk revival.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, acoustic, technical, rhythmic, melodic, folk, male-vocals, ballad, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. Leaving Blues (2:54)
  2. Cocaine (2:27)
  3. Sally Free And Easy (3:51)
  4. Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair (2:24)
  5. Rock Me Baby (2:48)
  6. Seven Gipsies (2:41)
  7. Ballad Of The Sad Young Men (3:12)
  8. Moanin' (2:29)
  9. Skillet (2:29)
  10. Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (2:20)
  11. Maajun (A Taste Of Tangier) (2:43)
  12. I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes (3:37)
  13. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (2:55)
  14. My Babe (2:46)
  15. Goin' Down Slow (2:30)
  16. She Moved Through The Fair (3:14)
  17. Mustapha (3:10)
  18. Better Git In Your Soul (2:26)

Credits

  • Davy Graham - primary artist, written-by
  • Crispian Woodgate - photography by
  • Ray Horricks - producer
  • Gus Dudgeon - recorded by
  • Huddie Ledbetter - written-by
  • Ramblin' Jack Elliott - written-by
  • Cyril Tawney - written-by
  • Traditional - written-by
  • Big Bill Broonzy - written-by
  • Fran Landesman - written-by
  • Tommy Wolf - written-by
  • Bobby Timmons - written-by
  • Jon Hendricks - written-by
  • Blind Willie Johnson - written-by
  • Bob Dylan - written-by
  • Champion Jack Dupree - written-by
  • Charles Mingus - written-by

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