Dave Van Ronk

Sunday Street


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Year: 1976
Label: Philo/Rounder


Tracks

- Sunday Street
- Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
- Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning
- Maple Leaf Rag
- Down South Blues
- Jivin' Man Blues
- That Song About The Midway
- The Pearls
- That'll Never Happen No More
- Mamie's Blues
- Would You Like to Swing on a Star?




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Inside Dave Van Ronk




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Year: 1962 & 1964 (rec)
Label: Prestige (original); Fantasy (reissue)

Somewhat confusingly titled, this CD reissue includes both the 1962 album of the same name and the Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger LP (recorded around the same time), encompassing 25 tracks in all. Anyway, this is certainly Van Ronk's most enduring work, and indeed one of the few relics of the early-'60s traditional folk boom that holds up well today. With the possible exception of Bob Dylan (whom Van Ronk and his wife helped immensely when Dylan was a struggling unknown in New York), Dave was the finest interpreter of traditional folk tunes of that time, with a big bear of a voice that was both anguished and tender. One of the few white folkies who could sing acoustic blues without embarrassment, Van Ronk was also an accomplished acoustic guitar picker; instrumentally and vocally, he brought an intensity to his covers that made the songs his own. Of the two albums brought together on this CD, Inside has the edge because of its more varied instrumentation, including 12-string guitar, dulcimer, and autoharp (Folksinger only has Dave's vocals and guitar). Dominated by classics like "Motherless Child," "Silver Dagger," "Poor Lazarus," and "Fixin' to Die," this also has an arrangement of "He Was a Friend of Mine" that Van Ronk learned from Dylan, who apparently claimed the traditional song as his own at the time.


Tracks

1 Samson and Delilah - Traditional - 2:35
2 Cocaine Blues - Jordan - 4:16
3 You've Been a Good Old Wagon - Henry - 2:19
4 Fixin' to Die - White - 2:52
5 Hang Me, Oh Hang Me - Traditional - 3:07
6 Long John - Traditional - 2:08
7 Chicken Is Nice - Traditional - 2:30
8 He Was a Friend of Mine - Traditional - 3:29
9 Motherless Child - Traditional - 3:48
10 Stackerlee - Traditional - 3:35
11 Mr. Noah - Traditional - 1:26
12 Come Back Baby - Davis - 3:49
13 Poor Lazarus - Traditional - 5:08
14 House Carpenter - Traditional - 3:30
15 The Cruel Ship's Captain - Traditional - 1:55
16 Sprig of Thyme - Traditional - 2:35
17 Talking Cancer Blues - Rhodes - 1:45
18 I Buyed Me a Little Dog - Traditional - 3:59
19 Lady Gay - Traditional - 3:40
20 Fair and Tender Ladies - Traditional - 5:40
21 Brian O'Lynne - Traditional - 1:15
22 Shanty Man's Life - Traditional - 3:20
23 Silver Dagger - Traditional - 2:20
24 Kentucky Moonshiner - Traditional - 2:35
25 He Never Came Back - Traditional - 2:10





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Gambler's Blues {1965}

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Early-60s session for Folkways. Some of this album was included on The Folkways Years 1959-61. Raw and great.



Tracklist:

01 Duncan & Brady Dave Van Ronk 3:02
02 Black Mountain Blues Dave Van Ronk 4:02
03 In The Pines Dave Van Ronk 3:08
04 My Baby's So Sweet Dave Van Ronk 2:35
05 Oh, What A Beautiful City {Twelve Gates To The City} Dave Van Ronk 3:15
06 Winin' Boy Dave Van Ronk 2:38
07 If You Leave Me Pretty Momma Dave Van Ronk 3:09
08 Backwater Blues Dave Van Ronk 3:04
09 Careless Love Dave Van Ronk 2:59
10 Betty & Dupree Dave Van Ronk 3:37
11 K.C. Moan Dave Van Ronk 3:04
12 Gambler's Blues Dave Van Ronk 2:30
13 John Henry Dave Van Ronk 2:28
14 How Long Dave Van Ronk 3:56

@220/229 - 71580KB - Vinyl Rip




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Somebody Else, Not Me {1980}


Somebody Else, Not Me continues Van Ronk's return to basic blues, folk and jazz accompanying himself on guitar. It was reissued (with a slight change of name) as Someone Else, Not Me on CD by Philo in 1999.

Originally released in 1980, this album was a follow-up to Sunday Street, an album on which Dave Van Ronk had abandoned any attempts to accommodate contemporary popular music and returned to an acoustic context and a repertoire of blues and jazz standards. He did much the same thing here, including material by Jelly Roll Morton and Scott Joplin, as well as Furry Lewis and Brownie McGhee, fingerpicking with his usual care and singing in his usual comforting growl. "Did You Hear John Hurt?," "Pastures Of Plenty," and "Song To Woody" nodded to mentors Mississippi John Hurt and Woody Guthrie, and peers Tom Paxton and Bob Dylan. If the result was not quite the equal of Sunday Street, it was in the same league and continued Van Ronk's mature renaissance.


Tracklist:

01. Michigan Water Blues [3:06]
02. Somebody Else, Not Me [4:04]
03. Old Hannah [5:41]
04. Entertainer, the [4:58]
05. Did You Hear John Hurt? [3:13]
06. Old Blue [3:50]
07. Sportin' Life [3:43]
08. Casey Jones [4:47]
09. Pastures Of Plenty [4:28]
10. Song To Woody [3:57]

@320 - 93MB




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Dave Van Ronk & Ragtime Jug Stompers '64




TrackList:

01. Everybody Loves My Baby
02. Stealin'
03. Take It Slow & Easy
04. St. Louis Tickle
05. Sister Kate
06. Moritat
07. Diggin' My Potatoes
08. Temptation Rag
09. Shake That Thing
10 . K. C. Moan
11. Georgia Camp Meeting
12. You're a Viper





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Sings Ballads, Blues, & A Spiritual {1959}


Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues & a Spiritual is an album by American folksinger Dave Van Ronk, released in 1959.

It was also released on LP as Gambler's Blues & as Black Mountain Blues. All these releases are out of print. Some of the songs can be found on the 1991 Smithsonian Folkways CD release The Folkways Years, 1959 - 1961.


TrackList:

01. Duncan & Brady [3:03]
02. Black Mountain Blues [4:03]
03. In The Pines [3:09]
04. My Baby's So Sweet [2:35]
05. Oh, What A Beautiful City {Twelve Gates To The City} [3:15]
06. Winin' Boy [2:38]
07. If You Leave Me Pretty Momma [3:09]
08. Backwater Blues [3:04]
09. Careless Love [3:00]
10. Betty & Dupree [3:37]
11. K.C. Moan [3:04]
12. Gambler's Blues [2:31]
13. John Henry [2:28]
14. How Long [3:56]

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From...Another Time & Place

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Year: 1995
Label: Alacazam/Alcazar


The title suggests a reissue, but From ... Another Time And Place is a newly recorded Dave Van Ronk album. Still, the title isn't entirely inappropriate, since many of these songs have been in Van Ronk's repertory (and on his albums) for some time, starting with the title track, an original Van Ronk was performing in the 1980s and recorded on his 1991 album Going Back To Brooklyn. Also heard on that album was "Losers," a harrowing and savagely performed Van Ronk song that is repeated here. But that album probably has been out of print for years, so you can't blame Van Ronk for re-presenting such quality material. Otherwise, songs such as the Reverend Gary Davis' "Lovin' Spoonful" and Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Koochie Man" have been in this folk-blues veteran's sets since he began turning up in Greenwich Village clubs. Always gruff-voiced, Van Ronk in his 60th year has lost nothing and perhaps even gained a more subtle expressiveness.


Tracks:

1 - Another Time & Place - VanRonk - 4:15
2 - Lovin' Spoonful - Davis - 3:15
3 - (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Dixon - 3:50
4 - The Old Man - Dylan - 1:40
5 - Frankie's Blues - VanRonk - 4:20
6 - Honey Hair - VanRonk - 3:10
7 - Kansas City Blues - Traditional - 2:10
8 - Down South Blues - Traditional - 3:45
9 - Bad Dream Blues - VanRonk - 3:35
10 - Losers - VanRonk - 2:40
11 - Long John - Traditional - 2:05
12 - He Was a Friend of Mine - Dylan - 3:30





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Going Back to Brooklyn

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Year: 1994
Label: Gazell Productions

With his first recording for Folkways in 1959, Dave Van Ronk entered into the American folk lexicon like a kind old grizzly. His influence was massive. Everyone, from Dylan on down, recognizes him as an influence. His passion and knowledge were boundless. His interpretations of country blues, blues, and jazz literally reconfigured the whole folk boom of the early 60's. Artists today may only recognize the people he mentored, but the roots, as they always do, trace back.

Believe it or not, this reissue of a limited 1991 release is the only recording Dave Van Ronk made consisting entirely of originals. And original they are. Would anyone else have the balls to record the anti-war Luang Prabang ('I came back from Luang Prabang / with nothing where the balls used to hang … now I'm a f***ing hero')? I doubt it.

With that booming, gnarled gargle of a voice, Van Ronk serves up Last Call (a sad and humorous look at drunkenness written after a drunken all-nighter with Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell). Garden State Rag takes a good many of those improbable Jersey town names (Cheesequake, anyone?) and makes a song out of them. Gaslight Rag is a tribute to you-know where. All hail the musical mayor of MacDougal Street!


"The role of singer/songwriter has never much appealed to me," writes Dave Van Ronk in the liner notes to this album, and it may seem like an odd remark for a performer who had a lot to do with promoting the careers of such singer/songwriters as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. But what Van Ronk means is that he has never been much interested in taking on the role of singer/songwriter for himself. Although he is usually mentioned in sentences that include the names of Dylan, Mitchell, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, and other Greenwich Village folksingers of the 1960s, Van Ronk is primarily an interpretive singer with a repertoire of traditional folk-blues songs along with covers of the songs of his peers. Still, he has penned the odd song on occasion, and Going Back to Brooklyn is the first album he's made that is devoted entirely to his own compositions. (As it turned out, he would never make another one.) As might be expected, he did not sit down and pen a whole new batch of material; many of these songs are ones he wrote years and even decades previously, and some of them he has recorded before. (For example, "Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again" first appeared on No Dirty Names in 1966, and "Last Call" was on Songs for Aging Children in 1973.) And in several cases, these are not so much full-fledged songs as little novelty ditties (the a cappella "Tantric Mantra" and "The Whores of San Pedro" clock in at little over half a minute each, and the similarly unaccompanied antiwar harangue "Luang Prabang" runs 1:36) or guitar instrumentals ("Antelope Rag," "Left Bank Blues"). These are the kinds of pieces an itinerant musician might come up with while waiting for a gig to start, and Van Ronk indicates that that's just what happened in some cases. Even when he writes a well-developed original, he basically adapts one of his favorite folk-blues fingerpicking patterns to accompany a lyric idea, the most outlandish of which must be "Garden State Stomp," which is nothing more or less than a recitation of unusual town names in New Jersey. To the extent that his original lyrics are personally revealing, they speak of drinking and folksinging, sometimes in a touching way, notably "Gaslight Rag," a tribute to a Greenwich Village bar and its folksinging patrons, and "Last Call." Van Ronk uses his raspy, expressive voice, which contrasts with the sweetness of his guitar playing, to get across harsh, bitter feelings in such songs as the self-lacerating "Losers" and "Luang Prabang," but only at the end, in the heartbreaking "Another Time and Place," to expose love and regret. Going Back to Brooklyn is unique among Dave Van Ronk albums for the portrait it provides of the artist, even if on the surface it sounds like many of this other records.


Tracks:

1 Losers - VanRonk - 3:14
2 Blood Red Moon - VanRonk - 4:06
3 Honey Hair - VanRonk - 3:22
4 Head Inspector - VanRonk - 2:29
5 Luang Prabang - VanRonk - 1:36
6 Antelope Rag - VanRonk - 5:21
7 Tantric Mantra - VanRonk - :39
8 Gaslight Rag - VanRonk - 2:06
9 Last Call - VanRonk - 2:37
10 Garden State Stomp - VanRonk - 3:30
11 Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again - VanRonk - 3:42
12 The Whores of San Pedro - VanRonk - :33
13 Left Bank Blues - VanRonk - 3:39
14 Another Time and Place - VanRonk - 4:37





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Hummin' to Myself
Dave Van Ronk Sings An American Songbook

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Year: 1990
Label: Gazell Productions


Tracks:

1 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) - Barris, Koehler, Moll - 3:31
2 Makin' Whoopee - Donaldson, Kahn - 3:15
3 I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Fields, McHugh - 4:21
4 Sweet Georgia Brown - Bernie, Casey, Pinkard - 3:14
5 Hummin' to Myself - Fain, Magidson, Siegel - 5:24
6 Hong Kong Blues - Carmichael - 3:30
7 I'm Just a Lucky So and So - David, Ellington - 4:32
8 The Fresno Shuffle - Frandsen - 2:45
9 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You - Razaf, Redman - 4:22
10 Two Sleepy People - Carmichael, Loesser - 3:35
11 It Ain't Necessarily So - Gershwin, Gershwin - 3:28
12 Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? - Alter, DeLange - 3:45
13 Jack, You're Dead! - Bishop, Miles - 2:50




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Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk


Tracks 1 - 12 are from "In The Tradition", 1963 (the whole album here)
Tracks 13 - 21 - from "Your Basic Dave Van Ronk", 1981 (two tracks from the original album are missing)


TrackList:

1. Cake Walkin' Babies From Home
2. Ace In The Hole
3. St. Louis Tickle
4. Death Letter Blues
5. All Over You
6. Whoa Back Buck
7. Sister Kate
8. Kansas City Blues
9. Green, Green Rocky Road
10. See See Rider
11. Rocks And Gravel
12. Hesitation Blues
13. God Bless The Child
14. Sunday Street
15. Sportin' Life
16. Cocaine
17. St. James Infirmary
18. You've Been A Good Ole Wagon
19. Spike Driver Blues
20. Gaslight Rag
21. Candy Man

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Dave Van Ronk And The Hudson Dusters

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Label: Verve/Forecast 3041
Year: 1968


Tracks:

Alley Oop
Head Inspector
Swing On A Star
Mr. Middle
Chelsea Morning
Clouds (From Both Sides Now)
Keep Off The Grass
Dink's Song
New Dreams
Cocaine
Romping Through The Swamp

vinyl, cleaned | mp3 ~224vbr | w/ cover





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Folksinger (1962)




TrackList:

1. He Was a Friend of Mine
2. Motherless Children
3. Stackalee
4. Mr Noah
5. Come Back Baby
6. Poor Lazarus
7. Samson & Delilah
8. Cocaine Blues
9. You've Been a Good Old Wagon
10. Fixin' to Die
11. Hang Me, Oh Hang Me
12. Long John
13. Chicken is Nice

93 MB
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Inside Dave Van Ronk (1962)




TrackList:

1. House Carpenter
2. The Cruel Ship's Captain
3. Sprig Of Thyme
4. Talking Cancer Blues
5. I Buyed Me A Little Dog
6. Lady Gay
7. Fair And Tender Ladies
8. Brian O'Lynne
9. Shanty Man's Life
10. Silver Dagger
11. Kentucky Moonshiner
12. He Never Came Back

80 MB
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