LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• Label: Cherry Tree
• Format: 8 CD box set
• Edition: Comprehensive collection of Davy Graham’s 1960s studio recordings, supplemented by demos, live performances and previously unreleased material
• Packaging: Eight CDs in individual card sleeves, housed in a clamshell box with an illustrated booklet
• Booklet: Includes an extensive essay, original album liner notes and a rare interview with Davy Graham conducted in 2000
• Total Tracks: 162

He Moved Through The Fair – The Complete 1960s Recordings presents an extensive survey of the most important period in the career of British guitarist Davy Graham. Across eight CDs, the collection follows his development from the groundbreaking acoustic instrumentals of the early 1960s through his explorations of folk, blues, jazz, Indian, Middle Eastern and North African music.

Graham’s fluid fingerstyle technique, adventurous harmonic ideas and use of alternative tunings had an enormous influence on the generation of British guitarists who followed him. His composition “Angi” became a standard for acoustic players and was subsequently recorded by Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Paul Simon and many others. Graham was also closely associated with the development and popularisation of DADGAD tuning, which became fundamental to modern folk and Celtic guitar playing.

The collection includes the original 3/4 AD recordings, The Guitar Player, Folk, Blues & Beyond, Folk Roots, New Routes with Shirley Collins, Midnight Man, the live After Hours recordings, Large As Life & Twice As Natural, Hat, The Holly Kaleidoscope and Godington Boundary. Additional live recordings and five previously unreleased early performances provide a broader picture of Graham’s extraordinary range and restless musical imagination.

Moving freely between traditional songs, jazz standards, blues, ragas, Beatles compositions and his own original material, these recordings demonstrate why Graham occupies such an important position in the history of British acoustic music. The clamshell box is accompanied by detailed documentation, including an extensive essay, original sleeve notes and a rare interview with Graham.

Track Listing CD 1 – The First Recordings and The Guitar Player

1. Angi
2. Davy’s Train Blues
3. ¾ AD
4. Worksong +*
5. Saturday Night Shuffle +*
6. Angi +*
7. God Loves His Children, Brother +*
8. Hey Bud Blues +*
9. She Moved Through The Fair
10. Mustapha
11. Careless Love
12. Hallelujah, I Love Her So
13. Sunset Eyes
14. Southbound Train
15. Take Five
16. Don’t Stop The Carnival
17. Sermonette
18. Take Five
19. How Long, How Long Blues
20. Sunset Eyes
21. Cry Me A River
22. The Ruby & The Pearl
23. Buffalo
24. Exodus
25. Yellow Bird
26. Blues For Betty
27. Hallelujah, I Love Her So

CD 2 – Folk, Blues & Beyond…

1. Leavin’ Blues
2. Cocaine
3. Sally Free And Easy
4. Black Is The Colour Of My True Love’s Hair
5. Rock Me Baby
6. Seven Gypsies
7. Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
8. Moanin’
9. Skillet
10. Ain’t Nobody’s Business What I Do
11. Maajun (A Taste Of Tangier)
12. I Can’t Keep From Cryin’ Sometimes
13. Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
14. My Babe
15. Goin’ Down Slow
16. Better Git It In Your Soul

CD 3 – Folk Roots, New Routes

1. Nottamun Town
2. Proud Maisrie
3. The Cherry Tree Carol
4. Blue Monk
5. Hares On The Mountain
6. Reynardine
7. Pretty Saro
8. Rif Mountain
9. Jane, Jane
10. Love Is Pleasin’
11. Boll Weevil, Holler
12. Hori Horo
13. Bad Girl
14. Lord Gregory
15. Grooveyard
16. Dearest Dear

CD 4 – Midnight Man Plus

1. No Preacher Blues
2. The Fakir
3. I’m Looking Thru’ You
4. Hummingbird
5. Watermelon Man
6. Stormy Monday
7. Money Honey
8. Walkin’ The Dog
9. Fire In My Soul
10. Lost Lover Blues
11. Neighbour, Neighbour
12. Jubilation
13. Rags And Old Iron
14. Jelly Roll Baker
15. Jubilation *
16. Travelling Man *
17. Sally Free & Easy *
18. I’m Ready *
19. Work Song *
20. Rock Me *
21. No Preacher Blues *
22. The Preacher *
23. Sweet Home Chicago *
24. The Cat Came Back *

CD 5 – After Hours: Live At Hull University, 4 February 1967

1. Work Song *
2. Cocaine *
3. Buhaina Chant *
4. Grooveyard *
5. Bourée In E Minor *
6. Gavotte Or Bourée From The D Minor Suite *
7. How Long Blues *
8. She Moved Thru’ The Bizarre / Blue Raga *
9. Miserlou *
10. Hey Bud Blues *
11. Buffalo *
12. Jubilation *
13. Louisiana Blues
14. Afro-Blue

CD 6 – Large As Life & Twice As Natural Plus

1. Both Sides Now
2. Bad Boy Blues
3. Tristano
4. Babe, It Ain’t No Lie
5. Bruton Town
6. Sunshine Raga
7. Freight Train Blues
8. Jenra
9. Electric Chair
10. Good Morning Blues
11. Beautiful City
12. Blue Raga
13. Better Git It In Your Soul *
14. Neighbour, Neighbour *
15. Panic Room Blues *
16. Skillet Good & Greasy *
17. Buhaina Chant *
18. Money, Honey *
19. Maajun *
20. Miserlou *

CD 7 – Hat Plus

1. Getting Better
2. Lotus Blossom
3. I’m Ready
4. Buhaina Chant
5. Homeward Bound
6. Love Is Pleasing
7. Hornpipe For Harpsichord Played Upon Guitar
8. Down Along The Cove
9. Hoochie Coochie Man
10. Stan’s Guitar
11. Pretty Polly
12. Bulgarian Dance
13. I Am A Rock
14. Oliver
15. She Moved Through The Fair *
16. Bulgarian Dance *

CD 8 – The Holly Kaleidoscope and Godington Boundary

1. Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall
2. Wilt Thou Unkind
3. Blackbird
4. Blues At Gino’s
5. Since I Fell For You
6. Sunny Moon For Two
7. Fingerbuster
8. Here, There And Everywhere
9. Ramblin’ Sailor
10. Mary, Open The Door
11. I Know My Love
12. Charlie
13. Bridge Over Troubled Water
14. Little Man You’ve Had A Busy Day
15. I’m A Freeborn Man (Of The Travelling People)
16. The Preacher
17. All Of Me
18. Afta
19. On Green Dolphin Street
20. Dallas Rag
21. ’Round Midnight
22. Work Song
23. Joe Joe, The Cannibal Kid
24. Everything’s Fine Right Now
25. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
26. Mother Nature’s Son
27. Grooveyard
28. Forty Ton Parachute
29. Nadu Silma

* Live recording
+* Previously unreleased live recording