Let Us Get Together Right Down Here (3:08)
I Belong To The Band (2:47)
Great Change Since I Been Born (3:58)
Death Don't Have No Mercy (4:28)
Cocaine Blues (bonus track) (2:40)
Twelve Gates To The City (3:15)
Goin' To Sit Down On The Banks Of The River (2:37)
Tryin' To Get Home (3:03)
Lo, I Be With You Always (0:41)
I Am The Light Of This World (4:10)
Lord, I Feel Like Just Goin' On (4:37)
Devil's Dream (bonus track) (4:13)
Review: The 1960 Harlem Street Singer LP by South Carolinian blues and gospel singer Blind Gary Davis comes reissued by Concord Jazz. Met with critical acclaim at the moment of its release, this forty-minute window into Davis' lonesome world is perhaps best known for its prime haunter, 'Death Don't Have No Mercy', a great, morbid song, and Davis' most popular. "He'll come to your house and he won't stay long / he'll look in your bed and somebody'll be gone / death don't have no mercy..." Such moribund topics never did deter the best of Blues artists, and of course, Davis might be said to have had "seen death" or at least known death personally, having been blind since infancy. Further raw and rusty blues numbers like 'Tryin' To Get Home' and 'Great Change' further extend Davis' image as a Harlem veteran crooner, who's seen a lot and knows many people - pitiless scythed spectres included.
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