Children Of Zion: Reverend Gary Davis In Concert - Original 1972 UK Transatlantic label 9-track LP

Original 1972 UK Transatlantic label 9-track LP featuring influential Laurens, South Carolina, born blues and gospel singer and finger-picking guitarist.

Vinyl has the generic full colour Side 1 label and Side 2 white and black printed tracklisting label.
Vinyl has machine stamped matrix information:
Side 1: TRA 249 A-1, mother/stamper 1 G
Side 2: TRA 249 B-1, mother/stamper 1 R
Placing this as a 1st pressing and a very early copy pressed within this.

Vinyl is held in an illustrated tracklisting and credits inner sleeve with liner notes by Stefan Grossman - ultimately in a fully laminated MacNeil Press picture cover.

Condition: VG++ (Vinyl & labels)/VG++ (Inner Sleeve)/VG+(+) (Cover):
Vinyl is bright and shiny - has been used directly from the paper inner sleeve and has subsequently a faint degree of sleeve wear only.
Labels are perfect - looks like an album played once or twice and then stores - overall graded near mint.

Inner sleeve has almost no signs of play or handling - cover is nicely clean with deep fresh colours, clean and wear free centre laminate. Cover has a little laminate edge wrinkling and a thin discontinued stripe of lift along spine

Seams are firm, straight and intact - lower spine and upper opening corners has mild to light dents, lower opening corner has a touch of rubbing.
Cover is at least graded close to near perfect/excellent.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1 I'm Going To Sit Down On The Banks Of The River 3:20
2 Twelve Gates To The City 4:15
3 (I Heard The) Angels Singing 4:00
4 Twelve Sticks 2:30
5 Long Way To Tipperary (Williams, Judge) 3:32

Side 2:
1 When The Train Comes Along (Meet You At The Station) 4:22
2 Come Down And See Me Sometime 4:52
3 Buck Dance 2:12
4 Soldier's Drill 7:35

Recorded live 1962, Swarthmore College, PA

Credits:
Reverend Gary Davis - Vocals, guitar

Technical Credits:
Stefan Grossman - Production
Nic Kinsey at Livingston Studios - Production Mastereing

Artwork:
Linda Fitzgerald Moore - Cover Photography
Stefan Grossman - Inner Sleeve Photography
Jean Ashcroft - Typography
John Ashcroft - Sleeve design