British journalist and writer Robert Tilling lovingly compiled this touching tribute to the great American guitar genius Reverend Gary Davis. His enthusiasm for the Reverend's powerful music started after seeing him on his first UK concert tour in 1964. He was born in South Carolina and became blind soon after birth. He took to the guitar and assumed a unique multivoice style. His ordination as a Baptist minister inhibited his blues playing (blues being the Devil's music). BIOGRAPHY.