In the Wind: The Folk Music Collection

In the Wind: The Folk Music Collection Artist: Various Artists
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 030206642728
EAN: 0030206642728
ASIN: B0000C5RP8


Release Date: 2003-09-30

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Listmania:

  1. The Folk Rock Years 2 on PBS

Tracks:

  1. This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
  2. Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger
  3. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands - Odetta
  4. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Burl Ives
  5. Cindy Oh Cindy - Vince Martin And The Tarriers
  6. Banana Boat Song - The Tarriers
  7. A Worried Man - The Kingston Trio
  8. John Henry, The Steel Driving Man - The Limeliters
  9. Greenfields - The Brothers Four
  10. Bwoin' In The Wind - The Cad Mitchell Trio
  11. Greenback Dollar - Hoyt Axton
  12. One By One - Barry McGuire
  13. Saturday Night - The New Christy Minstrels
  14. Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen (Dosen't Anybody Know My Name) - Jimmie Rodgers
  15. I'll Be There - Phil Ochs
  16. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) - Judy Collins
  17. Bound For Higher Ground - The New Journeymen
  18. Advice To Folk Singers - Rod McKuen

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Bringing back the 50's.......2007-02-08

This CD is wonderful! All the songs brought back many memories, especially Cindy oh Cindy, since I remember that from my childhood-my name is Cindy and I thought I was so special to have a song on the radio with my name!

4 out of 5 stars Broad sampling of the folk-revival.......2003-11-21

In the wake of Christopher Guest's mockumentary, "A Mighty Wind," Varese's pulled together eighteen tracks that essay the folk revival of the early-60s. To get at the revival's roots, the collection begins with a trio of seminal inspirations: Woody Guthrie's late-40's recording of "This Land is Your Land" and mid-50's tracks by Pete Seeger ("Where Have All the Flowers Gone") and Odetta ("He's Got the Whole World in His Hands").

By the early '60s the folk trios and quartets of Greenwich Village, North Beach San Francisco and college campuses everywhere were in heavy rotation. Several fine examples can be heard here, including The Kingston Trio's "A Worried man" (penned by the Trio's Dave Guard along with Tom Glazer, the latter of whom would return to fame with "On Top of Spaghetti"), The Limeliters banjo-driven "John Henry, The Steel Driving man," The Brothers Four's chart-smash "Greenfields," and The Chad Mitchell Trio's early reading of Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind."

Of interest to collectors will be The Tarriers' version of "The Banana Boat Song," which paralleled Belafonte's single up the chart, and Vince Martin's 1956 take of "Cindy Oh Cindy," a song eventually covered by Eddie Fisher, The Beach Boys, and Waylon Jennings! Hoyt Axton's original "Greenback Dollar," sung slow, solo and with a bluesier edge than the Kingston Trio's cover hit is also a treat, as is Judy Collins' pre-Byrds "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season)." Phil Ochs "I'll Be There," recorded in 1963, but unreleased until 1987, is the only post-50s track that feels more like "folk" than "folk revival."

Folk/beat poet/opportunist Rod McKuen makes a trio of appearances; first, as songwriter of Barry "Eve of Destruction" McGuire's treacly "One by One," second as songwriter and co-singer (with Jimmie Rogers) on "Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen (Doesn't Anybody Know My Name)," and again with the original talking-blues "Advice to Folk Singers." McGuire also checks in as lead-singer of The New Christy Minstrels (you'll swear you're listening to The New Main Street Singers from "A Mighty Wind").

This collection covers an impressive amount of ground in eighteen cuts. Rather than attempting to be authoritative in a single disc (after all, no Dylan, no Peter, Paul & Mary, etc.), the track list bridges the inspirational works of the 40s and 50s with the revival of the 60s. It's an interesting introduction from which a listener can draw direction for further exploration.

5 out of 5 stars A message from the compilation producer.......2003-09-16

In The Wind: The Folk Music Collection, 302 066 427 2
This classic American Folk Music collection serves as an introduction to many of those artists, and the songs they made famous. Many of the tracks in this release have become standards in their own right, and are an essential part of any great Folk Music library. This collection features many classic American folk songs not found on any other collection. Included in this release are seminal folk artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, The Limeliters, The Brothers Four and Judy Collins, performing their signature songs, such as ýThis Land Is Your Land,ý Where Have All The Flowers Gone,ý ýGreenback Dollar,ý and ýGreenfields.ý

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  2. Sandy ~ Sandy Denny
  3. Ring Them Bells ~ Joan Baez
  4. Ballad for Americans and Other American Ballads/Odetta at Carnegie Hall ~ Odetta
  5. If You See a Dream ~ Libby Roderick
  6. Christmas Spirituals ~ Odetta
  7. Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts ~ Kate Rusby & Katrhyn Roberts
  8. Harry Chapin: Story Of A Life ~ Harry Chapin
  9. Capitol Collectors Series ~ The Kingston Trio
  10. Steve Goodman ~ Steve Goodman

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