Give in Kind

Give in Kind is an album by the American musician Guy Davis, released in 2002. It was his fifth album for Red House Records. Davis supported it with a North American tour. The album was nominated for a W. C. Handy Award for best "Acoustic Blues Album".

Production
The album was produced by John Platania. Davis did not spend a lot of time on song selection, choosing what he liked, what others liked, and what was already worked out. He played banjo, six- and twelve-string guitars, and washboard; he played a didgeridoo on "Layla, Layla". Ken Whiteley contributed on mandolin. "Loneliest Road That I Know" is a version of Mississippi Fred McDowell's song "Highway 61". "What You Doin'" is a cover of the Sleepy John Estes song. "Good Liquor" is a cover the Big Bill Broonzy song. "Joppatowne" is about a prisoner returning to his hometown for a funeral. "I Will Be Your Friend" is a tribute to the Scottish musician Davy Steele, who died in 2001.

Critical reception
Robert Christgau called the album "country blues in the spirit of friendship, like John Hurt did it." The Star Tribune wrote that "Davis continues his dogged but creative commitment to traditional acoustic blues." The Gazette determined that "Davis recalls the days when jug bands ruled Memphis's Beale St.," writing that his original songs "preserve and carry forward the tradition." The Birmingham Post opined that Davis "has an inbuilt empathy with the music, without any of the vaudeville hokum of Keb' Mo' or the sophisticated gloss of Eric Bibb." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution concluded that "his previous albums have sometimes been weighed down by an artificial vocal gruffness... Now he has found his voice."

AllMusic wrote that "he's listened hard to classic Delta blues and based his style on it, without ever becoming a carbon copy of the greats."