4 Decades Of Folk Rock:return Of The (2007)

Product Summary Label: Time Life Music UPC: 00610583183221 Release Date: 9/11/2007 Buy.com Sku: 204553239 Item#: M3M39H Buy.com Sales Rank: 26588 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan ~ Various Artists 2. Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire ~ Various Artists 3. It Ain't Me Babe - The Turtles ~ Various Artists 4. You Were On My Mind - We Five ~ Various Artists 5. Do You Believe In Magic - The Lovin' Spoonful ~ Various Artists 6. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) - The Byrds ~ Various Artists 7. Go Where You Wanna Go - The Mamas & The Papas ~ Various Artists 8. Don't Make Promises - Tim Hardin ~ Various Artists 9. Season Of the Witch - Donovan ~ Various Artists 10. That's the Bag I'm In - Fred Neil ~ Various Artists 11. Get Together - The Youngbloods ~ Various Artists 12. Today - Jefferson Airplane/Jerry Garcia ~ Various Artists 13. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield ~ Various Artists 14. I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain - Tim Buckley ~ Various Artists 15. Morning Dew - Tim Rose ~ Various Artists 16. Different Drum - Don Randi/Stone Poneys ~ Various Artists 17. I Shall Be Released - The Band ~ Various Artists 18. Everybody's Talkin' - Nilsson ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Wooden Ships - Stephen Stills/David Crosby/Graham Nash ~ Various Artists 2. Fotheringay - Fairport Convention ~ Various Artists 3. Coming Into Los Angeles - Arlo Guthrie ~ Various Artists 4. Anywhere Like Heaven - James Taylor ~ Various Artists 5. John Barleycorn - Traffic ~ Various Artists 6. Box Of Rain - Grateful Dead/Dave Torbert ~ Various Artists 7. One Of These Nights - Nick Drake ~ Various Artists 8. Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart ~ Various Artists 9. American Pie - Don McLean ~ Various Artists 10. People On The Highway - Pentangle ~ Various Artists 11. Rock Me On The Water - Jackson Browne ~ Various Artists 12. Birds - Linda Ronstadt ~ Various Artists 13. Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzy ~ Various Artists 14. Love Has No Pride - Bonnie Raitt ~ Various Artists 15. Diamonds And Rust - Joan Baez ~ Various Artists 16. All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span ~ Various Artists 17. Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac ~ Various Artists Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Wall Of Death - Linda Thompson/Richard Thompson ~ Various Artists 2. Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners/Helen O'Hara/Steve Brennan ~ Various Artists 3. Talk Abou the Passion - R.E.M. ~ Various Artists 4. What's She Done to Your Mind - Rain Parade ~ Various Artists 5. Pass It On - Lone Justice/Benmont Tench ~ Various Artists 6. Pair of Brown Eyes, A - The Pogues ~ Various Artists 7. Love Radiates Around - The Roches/Edd Kalehoff/Steve Love/Gene Bianco/Lee Shapiro ~ Various Artists 8. Someday - Steve Earle ~ Various Artists 9. Luka - Suzanne Vega ~ Various Artists 10. Fourth Of July - Dave Alvin ~ Various Artists 11. See How We Are - X ~ Various Artists 12. Let It Rain - Johnette Napolitano/Dream Syndicate ~ Various Artists 13. Don't Talk - 10,000 Maniacs ~ Various Artists 14. Fishermans' Blues - The Waterboys ~ Various Artists 15. Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles/Steve Bartek/George Drakoulias ~ Various Artists 16. Five Cups Of Coffee - The Jayhawks/Dan Gaarder ~ Various Artists 17. Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams/Jim Lauderdale/Pat Quinn ~ Various Artists 18. Put Down The Gun - Peter Case ~ Various Artists Disc 4 Song Title Sample 1. Carolyn - Steve Wynn ~ Various Artists 2. Drawn To the Rhythm - Sarah McLachlan ~ Various Artists 3. Angels - Peter Holsapple/Chris Stamey ~ Various Artists 4. Still Be Around - Uncle Tupelo/Sean Slade ~ Various Artists 5. Galileo - Indigo Girls ~ Various Artists 6. Fade Into You - Mazzy Star ~ Various Artists 7. Box Full Of Letters - Brian Henneman/Wildo ~ Various Artists 8. Where I Go - Natalie Merchant ~ Various Artists 9. Loose String - Son Volt ~ Various Artists 10. Love To Love You - The Corrs ~ Various Artists 11. Shredding The Document - John Hiatt ~ Various Artists 12. Sunny Came Hom - Shawn Colvin ~ Various Artists 13. She Came Along To Me - Billy Bragg/Wilco ~ Various Artists 14. We Have Forgotten - Sixpence None The Richer/J.J. Plasencio/Peter Hykra ~ Various Artists 15. Babylon - David Gray ~ Various Artists 16. Chief - Patty Griffin ~ Various Artists 17. Stupid - Anne McCue ~ Various Artists 18. Rain Come Down - Eastmountainsouth ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Four Decades of Folk Rock is an expansive box set, allowing one disc and over an hour of music for each decade. For those who would argue that folk-rock was primarily a 1960s phenomenon in the United States and a '60s and '70s phenomenon in Britain, the box counters that the musical strains of folk-rock have informed everyone from R.E.M. to the Bangles to David Gray. It's unlikely, though, that anyone but record shop nerds and music historians will be very interested in the debate. For everyone else, the set will be measured by the quality of the music itself, and on that account, Four Decades delivers a remarkable set list. Overall, the first two discs covering the '60s and '70s are likely to be the most familiar to listeners, perhaps because much of the music was issued at a time when rock seemed less divided by subgroups than today. Yes, the Byrds' "Turn! Turn! Turn!" may have been "folk-rock," but the rock family was broad enough to encompass the Byrds and Jefferson Airplane, Donovan and the Band. Still, one of the strong points of these early discs is the mixing of less familiar tracks with material that still circulates on Oldies stations. Most listeners, for instance, will be familiar with Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" and the Stone Poneys' (with Linda Rondstadt singing lead) "Different Drum," but are less likely to be on a sure footing with Tim Buckley's "I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain" and Tim Rose's version of "Morning Dew." The collection also makes a smart move by including a number of British performers including Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, and Steeleye Span. The latter two discs representing the '80s and '90s (and beyond) may lack the cohesiveness of the earlier discs, but the music is nonetheless solid. Part of the problem stems from the shattering of once seemingly stable categories like rock/folk-rock into alternative rock, singer/songwriter, and Celtic. Unless one is a fan of every subgenre, she is unlikely to sing along with a number of these songs. Also, the mixture of such disparate categories is bound to create odd pairings. It's odd, for instance, to stick Dexys Midnight Runners' "Come on Eileen" between Richard and Linda Thompson's "Wall of Death" and R.E.M.'s "Talk About the Passion." And it's selections like "Come on Eileen" and 10,000 Maniacs' "Don't Talk" that will lead record shop nerds and music historians to cry foul: in what way does either song relate to folk-rock? But other cuts, like the above mentioned "Talk About the Passion," along with David Gray's "Babylon" and Natalie Merchant's "Where I Go," fit just fine, whether one is pointing to something called folk-rock or just good music. These discs are also strong on including female voices like Sarah McLachlan's "Drawn to the Rhythm," Mazzy Star's "Fade Into You," and Shawn Colvin's "Sunny Came Home." Like all collections, Four Decades of Folk Rock is a selective view of music history that some may choose to contend. More than history, though, the collection succeeds by putting together a solid and likable set list that balances the familiar with the lesser known, the American with the British, and, thankfully, both male and female performers. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.   Technical Info Release Date : 09/11/2007 Original Release Date : 2007 Catalog ID : M-19215 Label : Time/Life Music Number of Discs : 4 Runtime : 283m : 38s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00610583183221    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray