*BRAND NEW AND SEALED / VINYL ME, PLEASE CLASSICS / 180 GRAM VINYL / INCLUDES LISTENING NOTES BOOKLET*
Description
“Dave Van Ronk was bemused by the title of this album. He didn’t think of himself as a folksinger and had mixed feelings about what he wryly called ‘the Great Folk Scare’ of the 1960s. And yet, he was a central figure on that scene and this album was instrumental in shaping a new sense of what it meant to be a folk musician. A generation of guitarists took him as a model and honed their skills on his arrangements of ‘Come Back Baby’ and ‘Cocaine Blues,’ and his masterful reimagining of older traditions made him a defining voice of the folk-blues revival, showing that a young, urban performer could reshape songs from rural sources into modern, personal statements that were as rough and honest as anything from the hills or prairies.”
Tracklist
Side A
1. He Was A Friend Of Mine
2. Motherless Children
3. Stackalee
4. Mr. Noah
5. Come Back Baby
6. Poor Lazarus
Side B
1. Samson & Delilah
2. Cocaine Blues
3. You've Been A Good Old Wagon
4. Fixin' To Die
5. Hang Me‚ Oh Hang Me
6. Long John
7. Chicken Is Nice
