The Complete Guitarist
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The Complete Guitarist is a compilation album by British musician Davey Graham
, released in 1978.
Production notes:
Davey Graham
David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham, originally spelled Davy Graham, , was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival...
, released in 1978.
Track listing
All songs by Davey Graham unless otherwise noted.- "Lord Mayo/Lord Inchiquin" (Traditional) – 4:30
- "Lashtal's Room" (Davey Graham) – 1:59
- "Ein feste Burg (A Mighty Fortress Is Our GodA Mighty Fortress is Our God"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" is the best known of Martin Luther's hymns. Luther wrote the words and composed the melody sometime between 1527 and 1529. It has been translated into English at least seventy times and also into many other languages...
)" (Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
) – 1:29 - "The Rod to Lisdoonvana" (Traditional) – 1:58
- "Renaissance Piece" (Traditional) – 1:50
- "Hardman the Fiddler" (Traditional) – 1:39
- "Sarah" – 3:55
- "Frieze Britches" (Traditional) – 3:00
- "Blues for Gino" (Graham) – 2:56
- "The Hunter's Purse" (Traditional) – 1:25
- "Prelude from the Suite in D Minor" (Robert de ViséeRobert de ViséeRobert de Visée was a lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of Louis XIV, as well as a singer, and composer for lute, theorbo and guitar.-Biography:...
) – 1:02 - "Fairies' Hornpipe" (Traditional) – 1:30
- "Forty Ton Parachute" (Graham) – 1:28
- "The Gold Ring" (Traditional) – 2:20
- "Down Ampney" (Vaughan Williams) – 0:49
- "Banish Misfortune" (Traditional) – 1:52
- 1999 reissue bonus tracks:
- "Dance for Two People" (Stan Watson) – 2:12
- "Bloody Fields of Flanders" (Alex Stuart) – 1:36
- "Happy Meeting in Glory" (Traditional) – 2:00
- "Farewell to the Creeks" (James Robertson) – 1:27
- "Mná Na Héireann" (Robertson) – 3:29
- "Panic Room Blue" (Robertson) – 2:39
- "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" (Willie DixonWillie DixonWilliam James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
, Memphis SlimMemphis SlimMemphis Slim was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other...
) – 2:39 - "When I Been Drinking" (Big Bill BroonzyBig Bill BroonzyBig Bill Broonzy was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences...
)– 2:00
Personnel
- Davey GrahamDavey GrahamDavid Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham, originally spelled Davy Graham, , was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival...
– vocals, guitar
Production notes:
- Stefan GrossmanStefan GrossmanStefan Grossman is an American acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and singer, music producer and educator, and co-founder of Kicking Mule records.-Early life and influences:Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Herbert and Ruth Grossman...
– producer - John RenbournJohn RenbournJohn Renbourn is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is possibly best known for his collaboration with guitarist Bert Jansch as well as his work with the folk group Pentangle, although he maintained a solo career before, during and after that band's existence .While most commonly labelled a...
– producer - Nic Kinsey – engineer
- Joe Tarantino – remastering
- Deb Sibony – design
- Jamie Putnam – art direction
- Duck BakerDuck BakerDuck Baker is an accomplished and influential American fingerstyle guitarist, who in his playing combines genres as varied as rags, blues, country, gospel, cajun, bluegrass, Celtic music, ballads and jazz, swing, New Orleans jazz and free jazz.-Biography and career:Baker grew up in Richmond,...
– liner notes