In Praise of the Village

Whether Guy Davis is appearing on Late Night TV programs or nationally syndicated radio shows in front of 25 000 people at Madison Square Garden or an intimate gathering of students at a Music Camp Guy feels the instinctive desire to give each listener his 'all'. His 'all' is the Blues.Guy can tell you stories of his great-grandparents and his grandparents their days as track linemen and of their interactions with the KKK. He can also tell you that as a child raised in middle-class New York suburbs the only cotton he's personally picked is his 'BVDs' up off the floor. He's a musician composer actor director and writer. But most importantly Guy Davis is abluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity.Throughout his career he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as possible through the material of the great blues masters African American stories and his own original songs stories and performance pieces. In 1993 he performed Off-Broadway as legendary blues player Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil. He received rave reviews and became the 1993 winner of the Blues Foundation's ?Keeping the Blues Alive Award?. Looking for more ways to combine his love of blues music and acting Davis created material for himself. He wrote In Bed with the Blues: The Adventures of Fishy Waters -- an engaging and moving one-man show. The Off-Broadway debut in 1994 received critical praise from the New York Times and the Village Voice. Of Davis' live performance one reviewer observed that his style and writing ?sound so deeply drenched in lost black traditions that you feel that they must predate him. But no they don't. He created them.?These days Davis concentrates much of his efforts on writing and performing his Blues music. He has released nine albums for Red House Records all of which have garnered rave reviews and

Description Pat Metheny Songbook A complete collection of Pat Metheny's work, which features 167 compositions spanning the guitarist's 25 year career. Songlist A Map Of The World Across The Sky Airstream Always And Forever American Garage And Then I Knew Antonia April Joy April Wind Are You Going With Me? As A Flower Blossoms As I Am Ballad Z Barcarole Beat 70 Better Days Ahead Bright Size Life Cathedral In A Suitcase Change Of Heart Chris Cool Nights Cross The Heartland Dancing Daulton Lee Daybreak Don't Forget Double Guatemala Dream Of The Return Eighteen End Of The Game Estupenda Graca Every Day I Thank You Every Summer Night Extradition Facing West Family Farmer's Trust First Circle Follow Me For A Thousand Years Forward March Get It Goin' Ahead Goodbye Grampa's Ghost Half Life Of Absolution Have You Heard Here To Stay Hermitage Holding Us Homecoming House On The Hill If I Could Imaginary Day In Her Family Inori It's For You Ivy Jaco James John Mckee Just Like The Day Kathelin Gray Lakes Language Of Time Last Train Home Letter From Home Lone Jack Long Ago Child Marta's Theme Mas Alla Message To A Friend Midwesten Nights Dream Minuano Missouri Uncompromised Mojave Nacada Naked Moon Never Too Far Away New Chautauqua Nine Over Reggae Not To Be Forgotten On The Night You Were Born Praise Pretty Scattered Quiet Rising Red Sky Resolution Sea Song See The World Seven Days Slip Away So Falls Wichita Falls Sometimes I See Story From A Stranger Take Another Look Tears Of Rain Tell Her You Saw Me Tell It All The Bat The Awakening The Calling The Chief The Epic The Fields, The Sky The Girls Next Door The Heat Of The Day The Last To Know The Longest Summer The Red One The Red Wind The Road To You The Search The Sun In Montreal The Whopper , This Is Not America To The End Of The World Too Soon Tomorrow Unity Village Watercolors We Had A Sister We Live Here What Do You Wan't

Par METHENY PAT. Une collection complète des travaux de Pat Metheny, qui comprend des 167 compositions couvrant du guitariste 25 ans de carrière. Ecrit en accords de style ' Real Book ', avec les symboles de la corde, cette folio comporte également des informations biographiques, une discographie et accompagnera sur chacune des chansons par Metheny lui-même. / Jazz / Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare