Smithsonian Folkways – SFW CD 40213
Format: 3 x CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: Oct 29, 2013
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Blues, Folk
[Tracklist]
1-01 Duncan and Brady (3:06)
1-02 River Come Down (Bamboo) (3:48)
1-03 Spike Driver Blues (3:15)
1-04 John Henry (2:29)
1-05 Backwater Blues (3:04)
1-06 K.C. Moan (3:03)
1-07 Haul on the Bowline (1:21)
1-08 Just a Closer Walk with Thee (3:03)
1-09 Gambler's Blues (2:46)
1-10 Sweet Substitute (2:34)
1-11 Bed Bug Blues (2:48)
1-12 Winin' Boy (2:40)
1-13 Georgie and the IRT (3:33)
1-14 Betty and Dupree (3:38)
1-15 Come Back, Baby (3:55)
1-16 My Baby's So Sweet (2:36)
1-17 Black Mountain Blues (4:04)
1-18 Yas-Yas-Yas (2:06)
2-01 Willie the Weeper (2:51)
2-02 Dink's Song (3:46)
2-03 Santy Anno (1:46)
2-04 Leave Her, Johnny (1:31)
2-05 Tell Old Bill (4:30)
2-06 Careless Love (2:58)
2-07 Standing by My Window (4:58)
2-08 Please See My Grave Is Kept Clean (2:58)
2-09 Had More Money (3:09)
2-10 If You Leave Me, Pretty Mama (3:09)
2-11 Hesitation Blues (2:35)
2-12 In the Pines (3:09)
2-13 Oh, What a Beautiful City (3:16)
2-14 Mean Old Frisco (2:57)
2-15 Stackalee (2:46)
2-16 How Long (3:52)
2-17 Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down (4:53)
2-18 House of the Rising Sun (6:10)
3-01 Hootchie Kootchie Man (3:15)
3-02 Reckless Blues (2:31)
3-03 Trouble in Mind (2:26)
3-04 Oh Lord, Search My Heart (3:57)
3-05 God Bless the Child (3:18)
3-06 Losers (3:18)
3-07 Another Time and Place (4:30)
3-08 Garden State Stomp (2:52)
3-09 Motherless Children (3:13)
3-10 Don't You Leave Me Here (I'm Alabama Bound) (4:43)
3-11 Spike Driver Blues (6:50)
3-12 Down South Blues (5:12)
3-13 St. James Infirmary (Gambler’s Blues) (4:26)
3-14 Ace in the Hole (4:23)
3-15 Going Down Slow (3:29)
3-16 Buckets of Rain (3:55)
3-17 Jelly Jelly (3:03)
3-18 Sometime (Whatcha Gonna Do) (2:37)
[Credits]
Dave Van Ronk (guitar/vocals)
Photographer: Craig Mierop, Designer: Jackson Foster, Engineer: Pete Reiniger, Compiler: Jeff Place
[Notes]
Called "The Mayor of MacDougal Street," Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was a leading figure in the Greenwich Village music scene for more than four decades. He epitomized the urban "folksinger"— apprenticing through immersion in the music revival's New York City epicenter of Washington Square Park. Drawing from and developing a wide repertoire of songs, guitar techniques, and performing skills, he mentored younger musicians and songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Jack Hardy, Suzanne Vega, Christine Lavin, and many others. Down in Washington Square includes 16 never-before-released recordings coupled with tracks from the Smithsonian Folkways archive, spanning early live recordings made in 1958 (one year before his first Folkways album) to his final studio recordings in 2001, just months before his death. It paints a musical mosaic of Van Ronk's artistry and expands his legacy, keeping alive the genius of a legendary performer who inspired audiences, musicians, and a major motion picture — Inside Llewyn Davis, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Three CD box set, 54 tracks, nearly three hours of music, 40-page booklet with extensive notes.
