Blind Gary Davis

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Year Published: 1964

Complete Record: Impressionistic profile of the great Black street-guitarist and singer, showing him in his home and on the Harlem streets, where he plays and sings several of his better-known blues and religious songs. An ordained minister, Davis has been blind since youth and has used his musical virtuosity to express his innermost feelings about his life, his race and his religion. A sensitive, moving portrait that succeeds in making a social as well as personal statement. Harlem urban street scenes, pans of African American men,women, children on street