Candy Man

[ornotna]

Roy Book Binder

[The Polack MSgt]

1. Very nice

[BluesRunTheGame]

2. Roy's live shows are great.

A lot of good picking. A lot of fun stories.

My favorite Rev. Gary Davis “Candyman” story comes from Dave Van Ronk’s memoir:

Dave was taking a car trip with Pete Friedberger and Gary Davis. The Rev. was in the back seat.

“Pete and I were yakking about this, that, and the other thing, and Gary as always was playing, and as we were leaving Boston, he started playing “Candyman”. That was fine with me, of course; it was one of my favorite songs, and he had all sorts of variations he would play on it. By somewhere around Providence, though, it was beginning to wear a little thin, variations or not. By New Haven it was really beginning to bug me, but what could I say. This was the Reverend Gary Davis playing “Candyman” . Bridgeport... somewhere around Stamford, something inside of me snapped. I growled “For Christ’s sake, Gary, can’t you play anything else?” And I turned around, and he was asleep.”