DAVY GRAHAM - City And Suburban Blues (1981 UK TV Appearance) ~ HIGH QUALITY HQ ~ 

When I was 8, Davy Graham lived a few doors up. He brought me and my friend in for green tea and sat us down while he played the range of stringed instruments he had hanging on his living room wall . I never realised who he was. He was just Dave up the road. A kind gentle guy. RIP fella.

I can't stop listening to this. Davey was a master - a true musician. This song is flat out awesome.

If I was granted a wish to fly or to possess Davy's ability on the gutar, I'd choose the latter every day.

love that guitar and the twang it makes when he hits/pulls the strings hard, reminds me of slap bass, bert jansch would do that to, always adds a kick to an acoustic piece

Great never heard this before, an old Gallagher & Lyle song from there early days. Brilliant cover from Davie the master.

Magnificent - Davy makes it look so easy. One of my inspirations and an all time great. RIP Davey.

Absolutely delicious, his voice might not be the prettiest to certains but it does please so much my ears

Davy is ripping his way around that nylon string like nobody's business, yet all I can think to myself is "How in the hell did he get that shiner?"

I love this so much, bloody amazing. this man needs more airtime

I love his strong and tuneful voice as well as his playing

Only recently discovered Davy Graham. Hypnotic skill on the guitar and I can't stop listening. What I love about his voice is how it kind of 'steps back' to allow the guitar to sing also, resulting in both sounds seeming more powerful.

I love those chords he ends with! I wish the camera hadn't panned in too closely for you to see the shapes.

I had a go on Davey's Gibson one night .the strings were so tight I could hardly bend them .his hands were extremely powerful.he played my cheap shitty guitar while I played his Gibson and he still sounded a million time better than me .and he was ten times drunker than me because he drank all my whiskey wine.i couldn't get him to play anji though .so I played it to him .I must have been pretty drunk too to be that cheeky .I'm lucky he didn't break my jaw.

He did have a black eye.... recorded at BBC, Bristol.

Absolutely awesome. I must learn this.

his influence on British musicians can not be over stated his style his use of tunings and he was as cool as fuck

i saw davy in cousins.. soho.. way back in the 60s... he waa way ahead of the game...

Genius.

The black eye makes this performance all the more fascinating.

Happy to see him... I NEVER suppose that I could watch this great guitarist plays even in the video... ;-)

I Loves ya Davy! A genius legend...xxx R.I.P. Lee Mitch...xxx

A brilliant player who doesn’t even use a guitar strap. He was that good! RIP 💐

Just amazing! A unique style that has influenced just about every decent guitarist's acoustic playing - If anyone out there can be bothered tabbing bits of this or if you can find some I'd love it if you got in touch....I've worked out quite a bit of it but there are some fills I'm struggling with

Dans son jeu de guitare je ressent entre autres l'inspiration du jeu de guitare de Josh White et aussi parfois dans les mélodies au chant!

Super Davy

THE master!!

very glad this exists, thanks for uploading

Simplicity at it's best!

such an interesting man whose story should be told much more than some we hear. can't remember the interview but I remember someone talking about how strong he was, and looking at them arms u can tell. not a man you'd want to wrestle with, I'm guessing if he's got a black eye the other guy probably got worse. davy was so powerful in his playing, he reminds me of rev. Gary Davis in that sense, yes there were slicker players than both in their own fields but something about that scruffiness and lack of sheen makes it feel better. You know someone is special when you've listened to tons of players in a genre but that's the guy who stands out, that's the guy that grabs your attention. Not to dissimilar to monk, who davy obviously covered. It was such a shame to see him in that last documenty, it's hard to see your heroes become human.

Thanks for sharing. Tbh if I saw this before playing guitar myself, I’d think it looked easy 😂

the caption with this clip is wrong.daveys guitar on "folkroots,new routes" and "folk,blues and beyond was a vintage gibson j50 not a martin as stated.john renbourn in turn,a great fan of davey also used one as did ralph mctell and,later,james taylor.davey,always the leading light.R.I.P.

oh take me back to my home in the country i’m out of touch with the country news it’s been a long long time to be a man i’ve got the city and suburban blues oh take me back, i’ve been gone so long oh take me back, it’s where my heart belongs though i don’t mind spending time in the city but city folks ain’t my peace of mind i’m just a country boy, discontented i’ve got the city and suburban blues oh take me back, i’ve been gone so long oh take me back, it’s where my heart belongs oh i get some times when i’m down in the city when friendly folks are far between and few there ain’t no place for me in the city i can see there’s just the city and suburban blues

I can’t find this song amongst the 50 million tracks on Apple Music!

He’s got a black eye . You’d think they’d have covered it up.

I dont know what knob jockey from the BBC wrote the rubbish underneath; Daveys guitar for many years was a Late ,50s Gibson J50; he impressed guitar legend John Renbourn so much he sourced one (seen on cover of "Another Monday") who,in turn, influenced Ralph Mctell to buy one.! Davey; a leader in so many ways.. P.S. On Bert Janschs first albums he played a Martin 0018 lent by Martin Carthy as Bert didnt own an instrument at the time..

I closed my eyes it it sounded exactly like Clapton on his unplugged album

wow

Gotta like a guy with a black eye :)

Sigh. After what seems like an hour of youtube I'm realizing the same thing. There's just not a lot of footage of him. Any other places you can recommend?

does anyone know where I can find the score of this song?

Peachy. Hinckley's finest making Big Bill Broonzy sound like Noel Gallagher.

man he looks like he has a black eye! great player though...I find it tough to play these on a steel string so a neylon string is more easy.

1:35 😶

As a guitar player when i see others with greater skill than me i see it as inspirational. When i see davy grahams skills i kinda hate him lol

anybody know how to play this on guitar and if you can could you tab it for me please?

it's from an accident in the childhood

The look on his face, the black eye... not pretty... his playing, very pretty... had too much soul for life and all its bullshit did Davy, much like most great musicians... RIP

Genius.