Garden of Joy/Jim Kweskin's America

Garden of Joy/Jim Kweskin's America Artist: Jim Kweskin , and Geoff & Maria Muldar
Label: Collectables
Category: Music



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


UPC: 090431766828
EAN: 0090431766828
ASIN: B000B2WJTW


Release Date: 2005-11-15

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Tracks:

  1. If You're a Viper
  2. Minglewood
  3. Garden of Joy
  4. Circus Song
  5. My Old Man
  6. Kaloobafak (I'm Confessin' [That I Love You]
  7. Sheik of Araby
  8. When I Was a Cowboy (Western Plains)
  9. Mood Indigo
  10. I Ain't Gonna Marry
  11. Ella Speed
  12. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You

Tracks:

  1. Back in the Saddle
  2. Sugar Babe
  3. Okie from Muskogee
  4. 99 Year Blues
  5. Rambling Round Your City
  6. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
  7. Stealin'
  8. Old Rugged Cross
  9. Dark as a Dungeon
  10. Old Black Joe

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars a lesser known treasure.......2007-03-07

As a kid, a promo LP of Jim Kweskin's America fell upon me. It was not the accustomed, but it gradually struck a deep chord. Many of the songs as performed by Kweskin, Muldaur, Lyman and company have stayed in my mind through the decades even though I haven't heard them in ages (haven't had a working record player to play that LP). I just discovered the reissue and look forward to hearing them other than in the mind's ear. The tone of the America album is peculiar. There is a tongue-in-cheek quality to a number of the performances, yet it's clear that they love the music, too. I would recommend tracks but fully seven of ten make my first cut. This is fine and interesting music, much of it from America's interwar years (that is, WWI and WWII).

5 out of 5 stars What a find!.......2006-03-22

Stumbling across this set was magical for a number of reasons. Every few months, I would check the internet music sites for a reissue of Kweskin's "America" and it never showed up until... Likewise, for years, I had been trying to remember where I first heard "Minglewood (Blues)" and "If You're a Viper". Ka-Ching! So many wishes granted in one package. Two sides of one of the most estoteric musicians of the sixties and both wonderful. Someone make a movie on the life of Gus Cannon and maybe we'll have a brief rebirth of jug band music up in here.

5 out of 5 stars What a welcome rediscovery!.......2006-01-16

I'm referring to Jim Kweskin's America, which I had feared I would not hear again for many a year. My old lp and tapes are lost, and this is the first reissue I've seen. What deep healing music!

It's an odd repackaging. The old Jim Kweskin before the reborn man, quite a contrast to say the least. The old Jim sings on Garden of JOy, the new man on America.

I don't believe America is for the casual listener, unless he's ready for quite a deep transformation. "Are they all 'in the Spirit'?" my new wife asked me when I recently played it for the two of us. Afterwards she announced herself totally healed of a deep malaise she'd been suffering. I heard it anew myself. It always sounds different to me. Sometimes my thoughts will come crowding in and the "old-timey" music seems suddently far away, and I feel guilty. But I relax and open up again and it's as powerful as ever. It's the saddest, most joyful, far-ranging, profoundest music of America ever sung. Unbelievable that it hasn't reached a larger audience -- but then, maybe it has and people still don't know how to talk about it.

5 out of 5 stars Kweskin's finest.......2005-12-31

For Garden of Joy, Kweskin fleshed out his simple jugband sound with stellar jazz/folk violinist Richard Greene and Bill Keith (later of Neil Young's Stray Gators). The result swings to high heaven and is reminiscent of Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks' "Last Train to Hicksville (Home of Happy Feet)" a few years later. Easily his most sophisticated and jazzy album. I bought my cd version for $50 from Japan...and it was worth that price. Play it for your unititated friends...the sheer goofy joy of this music will force a smile on any face!

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