Various Artists - Friends of Old Time Music: Folk Arrival 1961-1965 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

From 1961 to 1965, New York city's trailblazing Friends of Old Time Music presented 14 concerts that brought dozens of legendary traditional musicians before city audiences for the first time, and helped spark the folk revival. Now, famed folk producer Peter K. Siegel, who personally recorded most of the concerts, has handpicked 55 tracks (53 unreleased!) from the original master tapes for this amazing 3-CD set. It's hard to appreciate just how monumental these shows were; here are the first concert appearances by Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb and Joseph Spence, as well as the triumphant returns of Dock Boggs and Mississippi John Hurt, both of whom had made influential recordings in the city 40 years earlier. A 60-page booklet puts it all in context. Other artists include Fred McDowell, the Stanley Brothers, Hobart Smith, the Greenbriar Boys, Bill Monroe and Maybelle Carter... what a treasure for folk and country fans! Album Tracks 1. Doc and Arnold Watson - I'm Troubled 2. Dock Boggs - the Country Blues 3. Fred McDowell - Going Down to the River 4. Roscoe Holcomb - East Virginia Blues 5. Maybelle Carter - the Storms Are on the Ocean 6. The Stanley Brothers - the Dream of the Miner's Child 7. Hobart Smith - Soldiers Joy 8. Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues 9. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Live and Let Live 10. The Watson Family - Lonely Tombs 11. Jesse Fuller - Rockin' Boogie 12. Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson - Brown's Dream 13. Dock Boggs - Down South Blues 14. Sam McGee - Knoxville Blues 15. The Stanley Brothers - Have a Feast Here Tonight 16. John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Riley 17. Jesse Fuller - Buck and Wing 1. Arthur Smith - Hell Among the Yearlings 2. The Greenbriar Boys - Amelia Earhart's Last Flight 3. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - the Brakeman's Blues 4. Maybelle Carter - Foggy