| Product Summary | | Label: Vanguard | | UPC: 00015707700221 | | Release Date: 12/3/1991 | | Buy.com Sku: 60046527 | | Item#: M4Y6RD | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25140 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Barnyard Song, The - Sam Hinton ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Must I Go Bound - Sam Hinton ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Arkansas Traveller, The - Sam Hinton ~ Various Artists | | | 4. See See Rider - Mississippi John Hurt ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Stagolee - Mississippi John Hurt ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Spikedriver Blues - Mississippi John Hurt ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Coffee Blues - Mississippi John Hurt ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Diamond Joe - Jack Elliot ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Walk Right In - The Rooftop Singers ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Un Canadien Errant - Ian & Sylvia ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Woke Up This Morning - The Freedom Singers ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Oh, Freedom - Joan Baez ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Te Ador / Ate Amanha ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Wagoner's Lad - Joan Baez ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan ~ Various Artists | | | 16. We Shall Overcome - The Freedom Singers ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. Originally released on Vanguard (79148). Includes original release liner notes by Stacey Williams. | | It's always fun when a musical document takes the listener back to a specific place and time. The Newport Folk Festival 1963: The Evening Concerts, Vol. 1 travels back to the height of the Great Folk Scare, when thousands of students made the summer pilgrimage to the most prestigious festival in the country. The big names -- Dylan, Baez, Ian & Sylvia -- all made appearances in 1963, and were joined arm and arm by Mississippi John Hurt, Jack Elliott, Sam Hinton, the Rooftop Singers, and the Freedom Singers. While the Rooftop Singers, with their recent hit "Walk Right In," certainly added a popular element to the festival, the overall layout favors the one singer/one guitar approach to folk music. The other odd group out here is the Freedom Singers, a quartet that specialized in gospel-tinged freedom songs like "Woke Up This Morning." The Newport Folk Festival 1963 reminds listeners of a time when people really believed in the songs they sang and their audiences sang along. The album ends with group singalongs on "Blowin' in the Wind" and "We Shall Overcome," both featuring many more people than are credited. As the thousands of folk fans looked onward, Dylan, Baez, Peter, Paul & Mary, and the Freedom Singers linked arms and sang the anthems of a generation. These moments alone make The Evening Concerts a valuable historical document. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford Jr. | | One of six live albums issued to document the Newport Folk Festival that was staged July 26-28, 1963, The Evening Concerts, Vol. 1 effortlessly echoes the diversity of the festival itself. The recording is dominated by three performers: bluesman Mississippi John Hurt with four songs, Sam Hinton, and the queen of folk, Joan Baez, with three. It's a balance that seems peculiar today, all the more so since the highlighted performances aren't necessarily the best aired that weekend. Two of Baez's songs have since appeared on the Joan Baez at Newport anthology (from whence, it must be said, the straggling "Wagoner's Lad" is not sadly missed) and, while Hinton's set is entertaining, one must look elsewhere for his finest released performance, "Talking Atomic Blues," on the companion Newport Broadside album. Of the rest, a pre-Ramblin' Jack Elliott's "Diamond Joe" is a fairly desultory cowboy ballad; the Rooftop Singers' "Walk Right In" is as glibly insubstantial as its hit vinyl counterpart; and Ian & Sylvia's "Un Canadian Errant" has been utterly upstaged by the appearance of further material from the show on their own At Newport anthology. Elsewhere, the Freedom Singers might well have been a positive endorsement of the mood of the times, but their impassioned "Woke Up This Morning" is nevertheless redolent of an earlier age, at a time when American folk was hurtling itself into the future. Bob Dylan was also on the bill that night, closing his own set with "Blowing in the Wind," performed on a stage jammed with his fellow festival stars. Included here, it is as chaotic as it is celebratory, but it feeds so naturally into the spontaneous chorus of "We Shall Overcome," which closed both festival and album, that that particular anthem is itself immediately overcome. Looking out from Freebody Park, RI, that summer evening in 1963, protest music really did seem set to change the world. And one day, maybe it will. ~ Dave Thompson |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/05/1991 | | Original Release Date : 1964 | | Catalog ID : 77002 | | Label : Vanguard Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Live | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00015707700221 |
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