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Reverend Gary Davis: Say No To The Devil (Xtra 5014)

Max Jones, Melody Maker, 7 January 1967

THERE CAN be no doubting the emotional force of Gary Davis's music or the variety and strength of his guitar playing. He is among the best we know of the singing evangelists who have worked the streets in the USA, and his folk art is a rare and valuable thing today.

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