Part 1-Folk Music-At Newport (1995) (Sky/Ian & Sylvia/Monroe/Rowan )

Product Summary Label: Vanguard UPC: 00015707700726 Release Date: 5/2/1995 Buy.com Sku: 60046137 Item#: MWWXK2 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Separation Blues - Patrick Sky ~ Various Artists 2. Someday Soon - Ian & Sylvia ~ Various Artists 3. Play One More - Ian & Sylvia ~ Various Artists 4. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys ~ Various Artists 5. Shady Grove - Peter Rowan & Tex Logan/Bill Monroe ~ Various Artists 6. Woman I Am Loving, She's Taken My Appetite, The - Lightnin' Hopkins ~ Various Artists 7. Danse De Blackberry Briar - Cyprien Landreneau Cajun Band ~ Various Artists 8. I Will Do My Last Singing In This Land Somewhere - Reverend Gary Davis ~ Various Artists 9. Gold Watch And Chain - New Lost City Ramblers ~ Various Artists 10. Wildwood Flower - Maybelle Carter ~ Various Artists 11. Forked Deer / Eighth Of January - New Lost City Ramblers/Eck Robertson ~ Various Artists 12. Swallow Song, A - Kathy & Carol ~ Various Artists 13. Milk 'Em In The Evening Blues - Sam & Kirk McGee ~ Various Artists 14. Oh Mary Don't You Weep - Pete Seeger ~ Various Artists 15. Colours - Donovan/Joan Baez ~ Various Artists 16. Free Little Bird - New Lost City Ramblers/Cousin Emmy ~ Various Artists 17. Sinking Of The Titanic, The - Mance Lipscomb ~ Various Artists 18. I'll Meet You In The Morning - Charles River Valley Boys ~ Various Artists 19. Sadie Green (The Vamp of New Orleans) - Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band ~ Various Artists 20. Little Sadie - Jim Rooney/Bill Keith ~ Various Artists 21. Celebration For A Grey Day - Mimi & Richard Farina ~ Various Artists 22. M.T.A. - The Kingston Trio ~ Various Artists 23. Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt ~ Various Artists 24. I Got It - The Chambers Brothers ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Compilation producer: Mary Katherine Aldin. Recorded live at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island with the exception of track 22, which is from the 1959 festival. Includes liner notes by Mary Katherine Aldin. This is an album that grows on you gradually -- but only because it covers such a diverse collection of styles in the course of seventy minutes. The majority of the cuts on this album are being released for the first time, while all but one (the Kingston Trio's "M.T.A.," from 1959) are drawn from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. The recordings are of quite variable quality -- a few sound positively raw. However, the lineup is quite interesting -- Joan Baez appears, of course, but in a duet with Donovan; other than Baez, you have Ian and Sylvia, Richard and Mimi Farina, the New Lost City Ramblers (with Eck Robertson and Cousin Emmy appearing on one cut apiece), Maybelle Carter, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Bill Monroe, Mississippi John Hurt and many others. Compilation producer Mary Katherine Aldin has done a good job of balancing out the various styles, so the album does have a nice progression to it, as well as a nice dynamic (leading to the Kingston Trio providing the album's peak point). Aldin's notes on the performers are fairly brief, but provide snippets of interesting background. An excellent addition to Vanguard's Newport Folk Festival Classics series. ~ Steven McDonald   Technical Info Release Date : 04/11/1995 Original Release Date : 1995 Catalog ID : 77007 Label : Vanguard Records (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 70m : 23s Studio/Live : Live Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00015707700726    Product Image