Davey Graham - Moanin'
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2023
- From ABC's Hullabaloo series, 5th October 1963.
Davey was not introduced before this clip, and presenter Rory McEwen simply says (at the end) it's a tune "by John Mayall". That's a mistake, as this is essentially a speeded up version of the Bobby Timmons tune which Davey would record in 1964. The mention of Mayall is still interesting, as his first recording would not be until 1965, and - while he later claimed Moanin' as one of the "eight songs that changed my life" - doesn't seem to have ever recorded it.
The link is explained in a 1978 John Renbourn interview, where he mentions seeing Davey play with an early incarnation of John Mayall's band - after the recording of Angi (1962), but presumably soon before this TV appearance. • John Renbourn: The Com... . So either McEwen heard him play the tune with Mayall, or Davey told him he'd been playing it with Mayall, and assumed it was Mayall's composition.
Davey was a semi-resident on this whole Hullabaloo season (Sept 63 - Jan 64, and possibly on earlier seasons), often accompanying singers, and this was his first solo appearance - the month before his premiere of She Moved Through the Fair (elsewhere on this playlist).
All of us who love guitar owe this man quite a lot.He was so far ahead of his time,incredible.
Love Davey Graham
Never heard this before, but thanks for posting up Jon.
Baby please dont go, van morrison , jimmy page on guitar. Just discovered davey graham, can imagine wee JP playing along to his records after school, getting his ears on, fingers down
Right. Although I think Page would have left school before he heard of Davy Graham, certainly before he would have been copying licks. DG appeared briefly in Ken Russell's TV film in 1959, when JP was 15, - ua-cam.com/video/tWeejHJxGjs/v-deo.html (how cool is that?!) - but didn't make a record until 1962 (Angi). Also, although JP was on the session for Baby Please Don't Go it might have only been on rhythm guitar - that was what seems to be have been usually hired for in 1964, as a back-up. Nobody seems to be too sure whether he played that riff or not (my guess is not). But (a) JP was a magpie, picking stuff uo everywhere, and (b) every acoustic guitarist on the scene in 62-64 (and countless later players) was impressed by - and influenced by - Davey Graham. No one had sounded quite like him before.
Class and cool
Great post Jon…First time I’ve heard this .. thanks!
What tuning is used for leaving blues?
This is exactly as cool as the presenter isn't ........................................................
Well, that's UK TV in 1963 for you. The presenter (who was actually an expert on Leadbelly, believe it or not) is being as rebellious as he felt able to by not wearing a tie or suit! Outrageusly informal! 😁
@@Jonpriley In true UA-cam style I just watched two adverts before I could get here - one telling me I can fly from Belfast to Manchester, then one telling me I can fly from Manchester to Belfast ( always good to know ...... ) . I think we can safely say the guy was into Leadbelly thanks to big Lonnie, who must have recorded more or less everything he did, long before 63. The lovely sweater is not what I'd call " informal " but " essential folky " . I had the luxury of meeting DG several times at the beginning of the 90s, while he was recording his very patchy Playing In Traffic album. I actually delivered to him his first copy of the CD, when he was playing at a folk club in the wilds of Cheshire somewhere. I have a track on my channel which I recorded on a ghetto blaster, a version of The Birth Of The Blues, which I don't think he did on any album. In my opinion this track makes convincing mincemeat of Joe Pass for fingerstyle jazz, in about sixty seconds ....................
painfully out of tune
It's open tuning