| Product Summary | | Label: RHINO / WEA | | UPC: 00081227474522 | | Release Date: 1/23/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203882128 | | Item#: M3E3H2 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25654 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Medley - Judy Collins ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. He Was A Friend - Greenbriar Boys ~ Various Artists | | | 3. High Flying Bird - Judy Henske ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Dink's Song (Fare The Well) - Bob Gibson ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Casey - Dick Rosmini ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Shady Grove - Dick Rosmini ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Little Brown Dog - Dick Rosmini ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Linin' Track - Koerner, Ray & Glover ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Even Dozens, The - The Even Dozen Jug Band ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Wild Child In A World Of Trouble - Vince Martin/Fred Neil ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Good Luck Child - Spider John Koerner ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Downtown Blues - Geoff Muldaur ~ Various Artists | | | 13. I Ain't A-Marchin' Anymore - Phil Ochs ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Last Thing On My Mind, The - Tom Paxton ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Pride Of Man - Hamilton Camp ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Tommorrow Is A Long Time - Judy Collins ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Black Mountain Rag - The Dillards/Byron Berline ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Green Rocky Road - Kathy & Carol ~ Various Artists | | | 19. Cocaine - Phil Boroff ~ Various Artists | | | 20. House Unamerican Blues Activity Dream - Richard Farina ~ Various Artists | | | 21. West Egg Rag - Dave Ray ~ Various Artists | | | 22. Two Trains Running - Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis ~ Various Artists | | | 23. Breeze - Oliver Smith ~ Various Artists | | | 24. Joshua Gone Barbados - Tom Rush ~ Various Artists | | | 25. Other Side Of This LIfe - Fred Neil ~ Various Artists | | | 26. Birdses - Dino Valente ~ Various Artists | | | 27. Blues With A Feeling - Paul Butterfield Blues Band ~ Various Artists | | | 28. Moonlight Drive - The Doors ~ Various Artists | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. My Little Red Book - Love ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Wings - Tim Buckley ~ Various Artists | | | 3. So Easy She Goes By - David Blue ~ Various Artists | | | 4. I Got A Mind To Give Up LIving - Paul Butterfield Blues Band ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Magic Carpet, The - Pat Kilroy ~ Various Artists | | | 6. First Girl I Loved - Incredible String Band ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Invisible Backwards-Facing Grocer Who Rose To Fame, The - Alasdair Clayre ~ Various Artists | | | 8. One Time And And One Time Only - Tom Paxton ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Changes - Phil Ochs ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Hard Lovin' Loser - Judy Collins ~ Various Artists | | | 11. She Comes In Colors - Love ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Light My Fire - The Doors ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Black Roses - Clear Light ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Once I Was - Tim Buckley ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Virgo - The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Buy For Me The Rain - Steve Noonan ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Nevertheless - Eclection ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Fields Of People - Ars Nova ~ Various Artists | | | 19. Dame Fortune - The Holy Modal Rounders ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Girl Of The Seasons - Bamboo ~ Various Artists | | | 21. Magazine Lady - Spider John Koerner/Willie Murphy ~ Various Artists | | | 22. Red Sox Are Winning, The - Earth Opera ~ Various Artists | | | 23. I Want You - The Waphphle ~ Various Artists | | Disc 3
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Alone Again Or - Love ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Both Sides Now - Judy Collins ~ Various Artists | | | 3. No Regrets - Tom Rush ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Jennifer's Rabbit - Tom Paxton ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Swift As The Wind - Incredible String Band ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Frozen Warnings - Nico ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Down River - David Ackles ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Mad Lydia's Waltz - Earth Opera ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Sing A Song For You - Tim Buckley ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Sun Comes Up Each Day, The - David Stoughton ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Early Morning Blues And Greens - Diane Hildebrand ~ Various Artists | | | 12. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune - The Dillards ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Arthur Comics - The Stalk-Forrest Group ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Five To One - The Doors ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Apricot Brandy - Rhinoceros ~ Various Artists | | | 16. When The Battle Is Over - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Mr. Healthy Blues - Lonnie Mack ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Kick Out The Jams - MC5 ~ Various Artists | | | 19. I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Go Back - Crabby Appleton ~ Various Artists | | | 21. Dismal Day - Bread ~ Various Artists | | | 22. August - Love ~ Various Artists | | Disc 4
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Down On The Street - The Stooges ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Louise - Paul Siebel ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Amazing Grace - Judy Collins ~ Various Artists | | | 4. That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Riders On The Storm - The Doors ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Future's Not What It Used To Be, The - Mickey Newbury ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Start Living - Farquhar ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Taxi - Harry Chapin ~ Various Artists | | | 9. True Song Of Amelia Earhart - Plainsong ~ Various Artists | | | 10. I Hardly Know Her Name - The Wackers ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Ballad Of The Ship Of State - David Ackles ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Guitar Man, The - Bread ~ Various Artists | | | 13. You're So Vain - Carly Simon ~ Various Artists | | | 14. You Don't Grow Old - Courtland Pickett ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Dolphins - Cyrus Faryar ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Shadows On The Wall - Skymonters/Hamid Hamilton Camp ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Burning Love - Dennis Linde ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Keep Yourself Alive - Queen ~ Various Artists | | Disc 5
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Wind Chimes ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Don't Be Long - The Beefeaters ~ Various Artists | | | 3. I'll Be Back - Joshua Rifkin ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Baldheaded End Of The Broom - Dry City Scat Band ~ Various Artists | | | 5. We Shall Be Happy - Joseph Spence ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Good Time Music - The Lovin' Spoonful ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Born In Chicago - Paul Butterfield Blues Band ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Crossroads - Eric Clapton & The Powerhouse ~ Various Artists | | | 9. I'll Keep It With Mine - Judy Collins ~ Various Artists | | | 10. She's A Woman - Charles River Valley Boys ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Sunshine Sunshine - Tom Rush ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Bird Song - The Holy Modal Rounders ~ Various Artists | | | 13. She's Ready To Be Free - Clear Light ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Wayfaring Stranger - Tim Buckley ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Laissez-Faire - David Ackles ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Alphabet Song - David Peel & Lower East Side ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Voodoo Woman - Simon Stokes/The Nighthawks ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Please (Mark II) - Eclection ~ Various Artists | | | 19. Flames - Leviathan ~ Various Artists | | | 20. No Words Between Us - Show Of Hands ~ Various Artists | | | 21. Listening To Music - Jack S. Margolis ~ Various Artists | | | 22. Lotus - The Rainbow Band ~ Various Artists | | | 23. Persecution & Restoration Of Dean Moriarty, The (On The Road) - Aztec Two-Step ~ Various Artists | | | 24. P.O.W. - Goodthunder ~ Various Artists | | | 25. All Around My Grandfather's Floor - Andy Roberts ~ Various Artists | | | 26. World Without End - Jobriath ~ Various Artists | |
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | This five-CD set (which also includes a bonus CD-ROM) is not the biggest, most massive box set that you've ever encountered -- back in the late '90s, Deutsche Grammophon had out something about the size of a cello case (with a pair of handles on it) that contained the label's entire recorded output of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, although, to be fair, that wasn't much more than a hyper-mega-packaging of existing CDs, CD sets, and box sets. This set, on the other hand, is very much an elaborately designed creation, specifically remastered and assembled for this release, and its packaging is custom-conceived from the individual song up through to the outer box. And in the context of popular music, this set is certainly in the running alongside some of Bear Family's most ambitious creations, for sheer size and weight -- (anyone on any kind of heart medication who decides they want this set and doesn't own a car or feel like springing for a taxi should probably order it and have it shipped to their home, rather than buy it at a store and transport it themselves, at least unless they check with their doctor first). Ironically enough, the very fact that this is, indeed, a "popular music" box set says something about the end of Elektra Records' history that is embraced by its contents, Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra 1963-1973, and a limitation in its scope and content -- you won't mind buying it, but you'll heartily wish (and would have bought it that much faster) there were a companion volume of some sort covering the label's history from 1953 through 1963, a time when the company's output included such curiosities as physician-turned-folksinger Shep Ginandes (who was to the postwar folksinging community in Boston the same kind of godfather that Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies were to home-grown blues in England) and the soundtracks to documentary movies by Maya Deren, and when founder Jac Holzman (whose participation was all over this set) would have been astounded to see Elektra's output designated as "popular" music. | | On the other hand, the box at hand, opening as it does with Judy Collins' "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and closing with Queen's "Keep Yourself Alive" a decade later speaks volumes, not only about changes in the record company across that later time period, but also about changes in the society to which it was offering its music during that same era. Those buying the set will need a good-sized and sturdy table on which to open it, and to dig down, past a folder containing art prints of four classic album covers from the label, a package of postcards devoted to a larger handful of significant artists, a set of publicity shots devoted to the Doors, Love, Queen, and Tom Rush; a pair of Elektra emblem pin badges; and a 96-page hardcover book chock-full of information, essays, commentary, and more by Holzman and the artists themselves (which is another reason one yearns for a volume covering Elektra's first decade -- those are the artists who are truly lost to time and very much need an account of this sort on their behalf). With all of that material inside, the set isn't really devised for convenience of use, a fact of which you'll be reminded in your inability to find the "numbered exclusive certificate of authenticity" supposedly included, which hardly matters -- to borrow from the title of Holzman's autobiography, which is represented here on the bonus CD-ROM, one buys this to "follow the music," not to prize a numbered edition, or as an investment (the Mosaic Records boxes are wiser acquisitions in the latter regard). But following the music is made slightly difficult by the design of the set; why is it that the makers of all of these mega-boxes, from the joint EMI/Columbia Pink Floyd set Shine On and RCA's Duke Ellington career retrospective and on to this release, can't devise an easy way to store and access the CDs and, more importantly, include artist and song information on the individual CD packaging? | | Some of the artists on disc one, such as Judy Collins, Judy Henske (whose "High Flying Bird" is one of the highlights of the whole set for anyone who doesn't know it -- and anyone hearing it for the first time may rightly wonder why she never got nearly as well-known or found as wide an audience as Grace Slick or Janis Joplin), Phil Ochs, Richard Farina, Tom Rush, Fred Neil, and the Doors are obvious, but many are far less so, and keeping up with it means dealing with a listing separate from the handsome CD package itself, either in the hardcover book or one of the other documents in the package. But in terms of the sound, it is mightily impressive, whether one is listening to the field-call of "Linin' Track" by Koerner, Ray & Glover or the instrumental "The Even Dozens" by the Even Dozen Jog Band; and the makers were clever enough to get such deserving figures as Bob Gibson and Hamilton Camp represented separately, on "Duke's Song (Fare Thee Well)" and "Pride of Man," respectively (of which the latter is one of several places where this volume brushes up against the folk-rock boom and the psychedelic era that followed in the wake of much of the music here). This CD probably straddles the greatest gap of the set, from reinterpretations of traditional folk to the Doors' "Moonlight Drive," though the latter song doesn't convincingly belong on this CD, so much as on the next volume. | | Disc two is devoted to Elektra's gradual switch in mid-decade from folk to more elaborately conceived and arranged (and heavily amplified) music, opening with Love's "My Little Red Book" and intermingling the work of the Doors, Judy Collins, Tom Paxton, David Blue, Tim Buckley, Clear Light, the Holy Modal Rounders, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Incredible String Band, and Earth Opera, as well as encompassing such less familiar names as the Zodiac Cosmic Sounds, Alasdair Clayre, and Waphphle -- it marks the place where the folkies and blues artists all added instruments and began stretching out what they did with them, and the label also signed rock bands that knew distinctly more than three or four chords, and about a lot else besides playing music (though the latter was true of virtually every artist that Holzman ever signed up). And even though most of the performers here have their work represented on CD already, often in updated, audiophile-quality editions, the sound throughout this disc is still pretty damned impressive. Disc three is where it all blossoms, leaping the gap from amplified folk, blues, and pop variations to bolder messages and groups founded on harder sounds -- the Doors are still here, as are Judy Collins and Tom Rush, but Collins' "Both Sides Now" is present as a representative of Joni Mitchell's songwriting in the first acquaintanceship that most listeners had with it, and not entirely out-of-sync with Love's "Alone Again Or" or Tom Paxton's "Jennifer's Rabbit" in its rather elaborately arranged electric version. And surrounding them are Nico, the Doors, David Ackles, Rhinoceros, David Stoughton, the Stalk-Forrest Group, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Crabby Appleton, and Bread -- and the MC5 and the Stooges, both of whom carried the label into a crunchy, defiant music territory far from its roots, mining deep into a popular culture and an audience that was a world away from the one that had existed just three years before. | | Disc four opens with the Stooges' "Down on the Street" and weaves across the work of Harry Chapin and Carly Simon, as well as such label stalwarts as Judy Collins (who was selling more records than ever) and Hamilton Camp (who wasn't), and takes us down roads old and new, into pop music as well as eclectic obscurities such as Cyrus Faryar, Plainsong, and Courtland Pickett, until we get to Queen, whose "Keep Yourself Alive" closes out the main section of the set. But in case that musical journey and the obscure musical notables included on the way aren't enough to satisfy the true music obsessive who woul |
Producer: Stuart Batsford (Compilation); Mick Houghton (Compilation); Phil Smee (Compilation) |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 01/23/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 74745 | | Label : Rhino Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 5 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00081227474522 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.75)
- 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[The] artists are all present with seminal performances, along with cult-hero pillars of Elektra's roster, such as singer-songwriter David Ackles, folk-blues singers Tom Rush and Judy Henske..."Entertainment Weekly (p.68)
- "[With] unearthed treasures from long-forgotten bands like Leviathan and Crabby Appleton..." -- Grade: A Mojo (Publisher)
(p.126)
- 5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] gigantic sampler, which offers delight and surprise in equal measure." |
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