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utorak, 01.04.2014.

Dave Van Ronk - Down in Washington Square (3 disk set)

Styles: British Folk, Folk Revival, Folk-Blues
Label: Folkways
Released: 2013
Art: full

Notes: Called “The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was a leading figure in the Greenwich Village music scene for more than four decades. He epitomized the urban “folksinger”— apprenticing through immersion in the music revival’s New York City epicenter of Washington Square Park. Drawing from and developing a wide repertoire of songs, guitar techniques, and performing skills, he mentored younger musicians and songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Jack Hardy, Suzanne Vega, Christine Lavin, and many others. Down in Washington Square includes 16 never-before-released recordings coupled with tracks from the Smithsonian Folkways archive, spanning early live recordings made in 1958 (one year before his first Folkways album) to his final studio recordings in 2001, just months before his death. It paints a musical mosaic of Van Ronk’s artistry and expands his legacy, keeping alive the genius of a legendary performer who inspired audiences, musicians, and a major motion picture — Inside Llewyn Davis, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Three CD box set, 54 tracks, nearly three hours of music, 40-page booklet with extensive notes.~Folkways
The very template of the urban folk singer in the late '50s and early '60s, Dave Van Ronk was born and grew up in Brooklyn, learning to play ukulele, banjo, and guitar at an early age. Initially drawn to jazz, he was influenced, like so many others, by Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, and began spending time at the famous impromptu Washington Square Park folk jam sessions. He developed a gruff, bluesy, intelligent, and authentic-sounding urban folk style that made him the Dean of New York's folk singers. This three-disc set spans Van Ronk's career, beginning with early live recordings he made in 1958 in advance of his first Folkways album, through his final studio recordings in 2001 just months before his death.~AMG
Read liner notes at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Disc 1

1. Duncan and Brady - 3:06
2. River Come Down (Bamboo) - 3:48
3. Spike Driver Blues - 3:15
4. John Henry - 2:29
5. Backwater Blues - 3:04
6. K.C. Moan - 3:03
7. Haul on the Bowline - 1:21
8. Just a Closer Walk With Thee - 3:03
9. Gambler's Blues - 2:46
10. Sweeet Substitute - 2:34
11. Bed Bug Blues - 2:48
12. Winin' Boy - 2:40
13. Georgie and the IRT - 3:33
14. Betty and Dupree - 3:38
15. Come Back, Baby - 3:55
16. My Baby's So Sweet - 2:36
17. Black Mountain Blues - 4:04
18. Ya-Yas-Yas - 2:06

File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 125,2 MB
Time: 53:57

Down in Washington Square [Disc 1]


Disc 2

1. Willie the Weeper - 2:51
2. Dink's Song - 3:46
3. Santy Anno - 1:46
4. Leave Her, Johnny - 1:31
5. Tell Old Bill - 4:30
6. Careless Love - 2:58
7. Standing by My Window - 4:58
8. Please See That My Grave is Kept Clean - 2:58
9. Had More Money - 3:09
10. If You Leave Me, Pretty Mama - 3:09
11. Hesitation Blues - 2:35
12. In the Pines - 3:09
13. Oh, What a Beautiful City - 3:16
14. Mean Old Frisco - 2:58
15. Stackalee - 2:46
16. How Long - 3:52
17. Aint No Grave Can Hold My Body Down - 4:53
18. House of the Rising Sun - 6:10

File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 142,2 MB
Time: 61:24

Down in Washington Square [Disc 2]

Disc 3

1. Hootchie Kootchie Man - 3:15
2. Reckless Blues - 2:31
3. Trouble in Mind - 2:26
4. Oh Lord, Search My Heart - 3:57
5. God Bless the Child - 3:18
6. Losers - 3:19
7. Another Time and Place - 4:30
8. Garden State Stomp - 2:53
9. Motherless Children - 3:13
10. Don't You Leave Me Here (I'm Alabama Bound) - 4:43
11. Spike Driver Blues - 6:50
12. Down South Blues - 5:12
13. St. James Infirmary (Gambler's Blues) - 4:26
14. Ace In the Hole - 4:23
15. Going Down Slow - 3:30
16. Buckets of Rain - 3:55
17. Jelly Jelly - 3:03
18. Sometime (Whatcha Gonna Do) - 2:37

File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 157,6 MB
Time: 68:08

Down in Washington Square [Disc 3]



• Dave Van Ronk - Ragtime Jug Stompers
• Dave Van Ronk - Two Sides Of

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utorak, 18.03.2014.

Dave Van Ronk - Sunday Street

Styles: British Folk, Folk Revival, Folk-Blues
Label: Philo
Released: 1976/1999
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 101,9 MB
Time: 44:07
Art: front

1. Sunday Street - 3:31
2. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well - 5:38
3. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning - 3:55
4. Maple Leaf Rag - 4:04
5. Down South Blues - 4:41
6. Jivin' Man Blues - 3:08
7. That Song About the Midway - 3:37
8. The Pearls - 4:33
9. That'll Never Happen No More - 3:53
10. Mamie's Blues - 4:24
11. Would You Like to Swing on a Star? - 2:38

Notes: This album, originally released in 1976, may or may not be, as annotator (and former Dave Van Ronk guitar student) Elijah Wald claims, "Dave's greatest single album" (frankly, Van Ronk has made so many albums for so many fly-by-night labels that it is hard to endorse so sweeping a statement), but it is certainly a very good one. Van Ronk had made various efforts in recent years to accommodate pop and rock music on his albums, but this one was a return to his usual repertoire of folk-blues tunes and jazz and ragtime transcriptions for guitar, with one Joni Mitchell song ("That Song About the Midway") and an original, the title song, thrown in. And it was a solo album on which Van Ronk sang and accompanied himself on acoustic guitar. Thus, it approximated what a good set in a club by this artist would sound like, minus the singer's witticisms, of course. Van Ronk never hid his influences, but he never sounded exactly like them, either, and on this album he was very much himself. Maybe it is his greatest single album; it is certainly one of his most representative.

Sunday Street



• Dave Van Ronk - Two Sides Of
• Jim Kweskin - Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)


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ponedjeljak, 02.12.2013.

Dave Van Ronk - Two Sides Of

Styles: Folk Revival
Label: Fantasy
Released: 1963/1981
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 179,1 MB
Time: 78:13
Art: front + back

1. Cake Walkin' Babies From Home - 2:59
2. Ace In The Hole - 2:53
3. St.Louis Tickle - 3:25
4. Death Letter Blues - 4:48
5. All Over You - 3:33
6. Whoa Back Buck - 3:39
7. Sister Kate - 3:04
8. Kansas City Blues - 2:10
9. Green, Green Rocky Road - 3:39
10. See See Rider - 5:18
11. Rocks And Gravel - 4:28
12. Hesitation Blues - 3:32
13. God Bless The Child - 4:25
14. Sunday Street - 3:20
15. Sportin' Life - 4:56
16. Cocaine - 4:30
17. St. James Infirmary - 5:00
18. You've been A Good Ole Wagon - 2:52
19. Spike Driver Blues - 4:15
20. Gaslight Rag - 2:13
21. Candy Man - 3:04

Recorded in London at Livingstone Studios, 1963, 1981
Remastered Fantasy Studos Berkeley, 2002.

Personnel:
Dave Van Ronk (guitars, vocals)
with
Red Onion Jazz Band (1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 12)

Notes: This two-on-one single-CD pairing of sessions from 1963 and 1981 isn't the most logical chronological mating, but Van Ronk's style was consistent enough throughout his career that it's not jarring, though neither album is among his very best. The first half of the disc is devoted to the whole of the 1963 In the Tradition album, which was evenly split between tracks on which the singer is backed by the Dixieland jazz-style combo the Red Onions and by more customary acoustic folk-blues solo guitar. That 1963 session isn't too much different from much of the rest of his catalog, other than in the balanced mixture between jazz and folk approaches. Of the trad jazz cuts, the item that might attract the most collector interest is the jaunty "All Over You," which is certainly one of the most obscure (and atypical) early Bob Dylan covers; Dylan would never release his own version, though a demo he did of the tune in 1963 has appeared on bootlegs. It's not much of a song, but its basic joie de vivre fits in well with the jazz segment of this program, on which Van Ronk's gravelly vocals credibly echo (especially for a white singer) the spirit of early New Orleans jazz vocalists like Louis Armstrong. Among the acoustic numbers are "Green, Green Rocky Road" and "Rocks and Gravel," both of which would be recorded by several other major talents of the '60s folk scene. The CD also contains all but two songs ("In the Midnight Hour" and "Stagolee") from a solo acoustic album he recorded in a single-night session in London in 1981, Your Basic Dave Van Ronk. If you'd been following Van Ronk up to that point, it wouldn't have contained anything in its approach that you hadn't heard before; indeed, some of the songs ("God Bless the Child," "Cocaine," "St. James Infirmary," "Candy Man") had been included on Van Ronk albums released many years prior to 1981. Still, Van Ronk's powers as an excellent folk-blues interpreter were fully intact, and it did include two original Van Ronk compositions in "Sunday Street" and "Gaslight Rag," the latter an homage to the famed Gaslight club in Greenwich Village. ~ Amg

Two Sides Of



• The Even Dozen Jug Band - Jug Band Songs Of The Southern Mountains •
• Dave Van Ronk - Ragtime Jug Stompers •


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nedjelja, 15.09.2013.

Dave Van Ronk - Ragtime Jug Stompers

Styles: Jug Band
Released: 1964
Label: Vendor Mercury Records
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 96.8 MB
Time: 35:21
Art: front + back

1. Everybody Loves My Baby - 3:00
2. Stealin - 3:15
3. Saint Louis Tickle - 3:38
4. Sister Kate - 2:20
5. Take I Slow And Easy - 2:29
6. Mack The Knife - 2:35
7. Diggin' My Potatoes - 2:47
8. Temptation Rag - 3:11
9. Shake That Thing - 2:55
10. K. C. Moan - 3:41
11. Georgia Camp Meeting - 2:50
12. You'se A Viper - 2:36


Personnel:
Guitar, Vocals – Dave Van Ronk
Backing Vocals, Jug, Bass [Washtub] – Sam Charters
Banjo – Barry Kornfeld
Guitar – Danny Kalb
Mandolin – Artie Rose

Notes: Dave Van Ronk plus folk-boom stalwarts Danny Kalb (co-founder of Blues Project), Barry Kornfeld (sideman for Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky), Sam Charters (author, producer, ethnomusicologist), Bob Brill (Foc'sle Singers), and Artie Rose. This is a true jug band, with actual jugs and kazoo. Most of the material is classic jug-band fare (New Orleans style jazz, Piedmont blues), but they also do three rags (A3, B2, and B5), all instrumental, plus "You'se a Viper" (a Fats Waller tune about reefer -- pretty unusual for 1964), and a version of "Mack the Knife" that hews much more closely to the Three Penny Opera than to Bobby Darin's Sinatrified version. ~ fatpidgeon

Folk singer Dave Van Ronk did several collaborations with "Traditional Jazz" and "Jug Bands" in the New York City 1960s - very fun interpretations of old New Orleans Jazz, Traditional Blues and Jug Band favorites which were later done by groups like the Jim Queskin Jug Band. This is some outstanding American Music that should be available to everyone.

Too bad this recording is now only available as a rare import - it should be generally re-issued, maybe as a double album with the Red Onion Jazz Band LP he did. ~ Studebaker Hawk

Ragtime Jug Stompers



• The Jernaut Jug Band - Jugstaposition •
• The Even Dozen Jug Band - Jug Band Songs Of The Southern Mountains •


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Oznake: Dave Van Ronk, Jug Band
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