Folk Classics

Folk Classics Artist: Various Artists
Label: Sony
Category: Music



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


UPC: 074644502626
EAN: 0074644502626
ASIN: B0000026RC


Release Date: 1989-07-10

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Tracks:

  1. Alberta - Leadbelly
  2. Jesse James - Pete Seeger/Ramblin' Jack Elliot/Ed McCurdy
  3. The Buffalo Skinners - Rambli' Jack Elliot
  4. The Streets Of Larado - Harry Jackson
  5. Wayfaring Stranger - Burl Ives
  6. Pretty Polly - The Stanley Brothers
  7. John Henry - Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs/The Foggy Mountain Boys
  8. Worried Man Blues - Lester Flatt/Earl Scruggs/Mother Maybelle Carter
  9. The Banks Of The Ohio - The Carter Family/Johnny Cash
  10. East Virginia - Pete Seeger
  11. The Rising Of The Moon - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem
  12. Swing And Turn Jubilee - Carolyn Hester
  13. John Hardy - Leon Bibb
  14. Black Is The color - Orriel Smith
  15. The Cuckoo - The Alfred Deller Consort
  16. Mattie Groves - The Beers Family
  17. Jimmy Grove And Barbara Ellen - The New Christy Minstrels
  18. Muleskinner - The Brothers Four
  19. Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars "R" for violence; "A" for banjos.......2001-04-22

Most of the songs on this collection are good and most are violent. It seems that in Merrie Old England the jilted husband of "Mattie Groves" "cut off her head and throwed in agin the wall." In the U.S., the rejected lover in "Banks of the Ohio" stabs her in the breast and "throws her in to drown."

Two definitive versions of familar folk tunes are on this CD. It don't get any better that Johnny Cash and the Carter family on "Banks of the Ohio." Cash's gruesome voice goes with the gruesome lyrics and the Carter family does an angelic chorus. Ralph Stanley's high, lonesome sound is perfect on another violent tune "Pretty Polly" and the banjo work is fabulous. Other good ones are the Clancy Brothers who call on all good Irishmen to kill Englishmen in "Rising of the Moon," and Pete Seeger's banjo playing on "East Virginia"

The bad songs are the oily Brothers Four messing up a good song,"Mule Skinner's Blues," and the unspeakable "Little Boxes" which is so awful it should be denied first amendment rights.

4 out of 5 stars Shouldn't This Have Come With A Warning Sticker?.......2000-02-22

Anyone who thinks Marilyn Manson or Snoop Dogg cornered the market on anti-social behavior in song should hear this CD. "Folk Classics" tells tales of sex, betrayal, corruption and murder (south by Southwestern style) reaching back more than 100 years. By the time you're through the first half of the disc, you get two Wild West shootouts ("Jesse James," "Streets of Laredo") a bankruptsy ending in murder ("Buffalo Skinner") a marriage refusal ending in murder (Johnny Cash with his future wife and in-laws, the Carter Family, on "Banks of The Ohio") and a call for all good Irishmen to battle (the rousing "Rising Of The Moon.") Of course, it helps that at least a couple villains got caught ("John Hardy" and Flatt & Scruggs' "Worried Man Blues.") And then there's Burl Ives, whose "Wayfaring Stranger" indicated that he, too, was making his final crossover trip.

Traditional instruments and musical styles (banjo, guitar, fiddle, and no drums to speak of), are the hallmarks of folk music and while this is not the only CD you'll need at the hootenany (no Baez, no Dylan, only one Phil Ochs song and he doesn't sing it), "Folk Classics" fulfills its title nicely. Just don't do any of this at home, kids.

5 out of 5 stars great songs by great artists.......1998-06-25

Buffalo Skinners, Matty Groves-- stories that creep into your soul through your ears.

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  8. The Kerrville Tapes ~ Eric Taylor
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