Who is david Cohen musician who played on record amazing grace by the great awakening?

Answer 1

There was no actual group, it was a solo project by David Cohen . . .

. . . . an astounding session guitarist frrom L.A. in the sixties who most definitely was the artist who recorded a single of Amazing Grace . . . . David was my guitar mentor, and I worked at the Ash Grove School of Traditional Folk Music when I was a teenager in the sixties, where David was one of the noteworthy teachers, which included Taj Mahal.

I was allowed to learn all the guitar I could stand, attend all the shows and eat for free all week long (The Ash Grove was a major folk/roots music venue), plus five bucks a day on Sundays when I worked for the school . . . . and I have been a pro guitarist ever since.

David is not well known, but we have all heard his work.

He played the acoustic 12-String guitar on Bobby Darin's huge hit "If I Were A Carpenter", he played the backwards-taped electric guitar solo on the Kenny Rogers psychedelic band tune (before Rogers went country) called "I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In" . . . the band was Kenny Rogers & the First Edition.

David also played on some Sonny and Cher hits and some Nillson records, and much more.

His mentor, or at the very least a major influence on David was another lesser known but highly interesting L.A. session guitarist named Don Peake.

~ ~ herringbone jones