Dave Van Ronk - And The Tin Pan Bended and The Story Ended - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Born in Brooklyn in 1936, Dave Van Ronk was Bob Dylan's Inchfirst New York guru,Inch writes Dylan's biographer Robert Shelton. InchDave Van Ronk was the musical mayor of MacDougal Street,Inch Shelton continues, Inchand... a walking museum of the blues.Inch This album features fifteen songs, including a parody of InchNearer My God to TheeInch InchGeorgie and the IRT.Inch Album Tracks 1. Bed Bug Blues 2. Yas-Yas-Yas 3. Please See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 4. Tell Old Bill 5. Georgie and the Irt 6. Hesitation Blues 7. Hootchy Kootchy Man 8. Sweet Substitute 9. Dink's Song 10. River Come Down 11. Just a Closer Walk with Thee 12. Come Back Baby 13. Spike Driver's Moan 14. Standing By My Window 15. Willie the Weeper

Album Tracks 1. Duncan and Brady 2. River Come Down (Bamboo) 3. Spike Driver Blues 4. John Henry 5. Backwater Blues 6. K.C. Moan 7. Haul on the Bowline 8. Just a Closer Walk with Thee 9. Gambler's Blues 10. Sweet Substitute 11. Bed Bug Blues 12. Winin Boy 13. Georgie and the Irt 14. Betty and Dupree 15. Come Back, Baby 16. My Baby's So Sweet 17. Black Mountain Blues 18. Ya-Yas-Yas 1. Willie the Weeper 2. Dink's Song 3. Santy Ano 4. Leave Her, Johnny 5. Tell Old Bill 6. Careless Love 7. Standing By My Window 8. Please See My Grave Is Kept Clean 9. If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day 10. If You Leave Me, Pretty Mama 11. Hesitation Blues 12. In the Pines 13. Oh, What a Beautiful City 14. Mean Old Frisco 15. Stackalee 16. How Long 17. Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down 18. House of the Rising Sun 1. Hootchie Kootchie Man 2. Reckless Blues 3. Trouble in Mind 4. Oh Lord, Search My Heart 5. God Bless the Child 6. Losers 7. Another Time and Place 8. Garden State Stomp 9. Motherless Children 10. Don't You Leave Me Here (I'm Alabama Bound) 11. Spike Driver Blues 12. Down South Blues 13. St. James Infirmary (Gambler's Blues) 14. Ace in the Hole 15. Going Down Slow 16. Buckets of Rain 17. Jelly Jelly 18. Sometime (Whatcha Gonna Do)

Not infrequently I am taken to task for the manner in which I approach my material, Folk singer and guitar player Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) wrote in the liner notes to Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual. A white New Yorker singing traditional Southern Black songs, he distinguished himself from others who adopted this repertoire by imitating the way he heard Black musicians perform. InchAlthough I can appreciate the 'White approach' to Negro folksongs and enjoy the work of many of it's adherents, I still reserve the right to sing these songs in the style to which I am accustomed, partly because of habit, and partly, I confess, because I feel that my way is the 'right way'.InchThis 1959 was Van Ronk's first record. It contains the tracks InchIf You Leave Me Pretty Momma,Inch InchBackwater Blues,Inch InchK.C. Moan,Inch InchHow Long,Inch and InchJohn Henry,Inch which were not featured on the Van Ronk collection The Folkways Years, 1959-1961. Liner notes include photos, lyrics, song histories, and an introduction by Van Ronk. Album Tracks 1. Duncan and Brady 2. Black Mountain Blues 3. In the Pines 4. My Baby's So Sweet 5. Oh, What a Beautiful City (Twelve Gates to the City) 6. Winin' Boy 7. If You Leave Me Pretty Momma 8. Backwater Blues 9. Careless Love 10. Betty and Dupree 11. K.C. Moan 12. Gambler's Blues 13. John Henry 14. How Long