Dave Van Ronk - Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual - 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

Dave Van Ronk was one of the key figures in the coffee-house culture of New York's Greenwich Village during the late '50s and early '60s, both as a folk-blues artist in his own right and as a friend, mentor, and general mover and shaker, helping particularly in the early career of Bob Dylan. As a guitarist and singer, Van Ronk's repertoire covered the gamut of traditional American folk and blues music, encompassing ragtime, skiffle, jug band music, New Orleans jazz, and swing as he helped popularise folk music in the changing musical environment of the post rock 'n' roll era. This great value 47-track 2-CD collection comprises recordings from the first five years of his recording career as he established himself at the core of New York's vibrant folk scene. It includes titles from one of his first recording projects, a 1958 album on the obscure Lyrichord tag with the The Orange Blossom Jug Five called InchSkiffle In StereoInch, plus the complete content of his first three solo albums as a folk-blues artist for the Folkways and Prestige labels - InchDave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues, and a SpiritualInch, InchDave Van Ronk SingsInch and InchDave Van Ronk, FolksingerInch. It provides a thorough introduction to his early years, giving a fine insight into the repertoire which he and his peers saw as the core of the Americana tradition, and amply demonstrates why he became a much loved and respected personality within the folk community over the years Album Tracks 1. Just Because - the Orange Blossom Jug Five 2. You Gotta Like It - the Orange Blossom Jug Five 3. Trouble in Mind - the Orange Blossom Jug Five 4. Take Your Fingers Off It - the Orange Blossom Jug Five 5. Voice of a Porkchop - the Orange Blossom Jug Five 6. Duncan and Brady 7. Black Mountain Blues 8. In the Pines 9. My Baby's So Sweet 10. Twelve Gates to the City 11. Winin' Boy Blues

Before this Greenwich Village folk doyen recorded for Prestige, he made a splash with his Smithsonian Folkways LPs. He came to be revered for these kinds of new spins on old blues and jazz classics Hesitation Blues; Black Mountain Blues; My Baby's So Sweet; Come Back Baby; Winin' Boy; Willie the Weeper 20 tracks! Album Tracks 1. Duncan and Brady 2. Hesitation Blues 3. In the Pines 4. Willie the Weeper 5. Twelve Gates to the City 6. River Come Down 7. Careless Love 8. Betty and Dupree 9. Bed Bug Blues 10. Leave Her Johnny 11. Yas, Yas, Yas 12. Please See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 13. Winin' Boy 14. Just a Closer Walk with Thee 15. Gambler's Blues 16. Spike Driver's Moan 17. Georgie on the Irt 18. Come Back Baby 19. Black Mountain Blues 20. My Baby's So Sweet