| Product Summary | | Label: Appleseed Recording | | UPC: 00611587104625 | | Release Date: 8/28/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60496996 | | Item#: MNJLV9 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Wagoner's Lad - (with Joan Baez/Eliza Carthy) ~ Roger McGuinn |  | | 2. Dink's Song - (with Pete Seeger/Josh White Jr.) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 3. Bonnie Ship The Diamond - (with Judy Collins) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 4. Cane Blues ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 5. Reel - (with Eliza Carthy) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 6. Fair Nottamun Town - (with Jean Ritchie) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 7. John The Revelator - (with Jean Ritchie/Odetta) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 8. Alabama Bound - (with Pete Seeger) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 9. Finnegan's Wake - (with Tommy Makem) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 10. In The Evenin' - (with Pete Seeger) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 11. Willie Moore - (with Joan Baez/Eliza Carthy) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 12. Brazos River, The - (with Frank & Mary Hamilton) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 13. Sail Away Lady - (with Odetta) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 14. John Riley - (with Judy Collins) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 15. Trouble In Mind - (with Josh White Jr.) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 16. Whiskey In The Jar - (with Tommy Makem) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 17. Virgin Mary, The - (with Odetta) ~ Roger McGuinn | | | 18. Pete's Song - (with Pete Seeger) ~ Roger McGuinn | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Roger McGuinn (vocals, acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, banjo); Joan Baez, Frank Hamilton, Mary Hamilton, Odetta, Josh White, Jr (vocals, guitar); Pete Seeger (vocals, 12-string guitar, banjo, recorder); Jean Ritchie (vocals, dulcimer); Tommy Makem, Elizabeth Spaul (vocals); Eliza Carthy (fiddle); Martin Green (accordion); The Makem Brothers (background vocals). | | Producers include: Roger McGuinn, Camilla McGuinn. | | Includes liner notes by Roger McGuinn. | | TREASURES FROM THE FOLK DEN was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. | | In late 1995, as part of his official website, Roger McGuinn launched a feature called The Folk Den, in which each month he recorded a traditional folk song in his home studio and posted the results on his web page along with brief essays on the histories of the songs and how he came to learn them. McGuinn used this ongoing experiment as the inspiration for his album, Treasures From the Folk Den, which was recorded in a series of informal sessions (mostly in people's homes, none in a traditional recording studio) using McGuinn's Apple G4 computer as a mobile recording setup. Unlike the online "Folk Den" recordings, which feature McGuinn solo (occasionally overdubbing himself for accompaniment), for these performances he enlisted a number of friends as accompanists and duet partners, including Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Eliza Carthy, and Tommy Makem. The results are a shade more polished than McGuinn's Folk Den sessions (several of which have been released on disc by mp3.com) and McGuinn is in fine voice, as are his guests (though neither McGuinn nor Odetta and Jean Ritchie have quite enough grit to do justice to "John the Revelator"). Treasures From the Folk Den, however, is flawed somewhat by the material; while nearly all of these songs are foundation blocks of the folk repertoire, as a consequence they've been recorded dozens of times by a number of major artists (including several who appear on this disc), and while these recordings are strong, they aren't that much different than the others that are already available. Treasures From the Folk Den would make a good introduction for someone just dipping their toes into the basic folk repertoire, and it's always a pleasure to hear these artists in strong and committed form, but there isn't much here that longtime folk enthusiasts haven't heard before; it's enjoyable, but hardly essential. ~ Mark Deming | | Before he helped invent folk-rock by starting the Byrds in the mid-'60s, Roger McGuinn concentrated on the former half of that amalgam, strumming acoustic folk tunes along with legions of peers during the early-'60s folk revival. TREASURES FROM THE FOLK DEN finds McGuinn coming full circle as he enters his fifth decade of music. The traditional folk tunes included here are newly recorded versions of ones that were part of McGuinn's online project to preserve this strain of musical history, and he enlisted some of the most renowned folk musicians in the world to help him out. | | Pete Seeger's banjo and weathered voice add authenticity to "Alabama Bound." Judy Collins's ever-crystalline voice brings a sparkle to "John Riley," a tune McGuinn once tackled with the Byrds. Relative youngster Eliza Carthy takes the lead with her fiddle on the instrumental "Reel." While the roots of some of these songs lie in Ireland, England and elsewhere, the paradigm approached by McGuinn is the peculiarly American one that captivated musicians and fans alike some 40 years earlier. Most importantly, this is a true "folk" album, in a new milennium where that term is misused more than ever. |
Musical Guests | | Joan Baez | | Tommy Makem | | Judy Collins | | Eliza Carthy | | Pete Seeger | | Jean Ritchie | | Odetta | | Josh White, Jr. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/28/2001 | | Original Release Date : 2001 | | Catalog ID : 1046 | | Label : Appleseed Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00611587104625 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (Summer/01, p.105)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...A field day for folklorists and fans alike..."Uncut (9/01, p.97)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...It's all lovely stuff, just voices and acoustic guitars on songs..." |
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