The Mayor of MacDougal Street: Rarities 1957-69

Dave Van Ronk - The Mayor of MacDougal Street: Rarities 1957-69

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Artist: Dave Van Ronk
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-04-19
Music Label: Rootstock Recordings
Soundtracks:
  1. New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
  2. On Top Of Old Smoky
  3. All My Trials
  4. Buddy Bolden's Blues
  5. The Butcher Boy
  6. Salty Dog
  7. Two Trains Running
  8. Way Down In Lubyanka Prison
  9. Willie The Weeper
  10. Shaving Cream
  11. The Cruel Ship's Captain
  12. As You Make Your Bed
  13. Bird On The Wire
  14. Both Sides Now
  15. In Conditional Support of Beauty
  16. W.C. Fields Routine
  17. Romping Through The Swamp

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Music Review: the great Van Ronk, one more time
Rating: 4 Stars

Dave Van Ronk died on February 10, 2002, remembered only by friends and acquaintances who knew him as a one-of-a-kind character, and by the (only relatively) larger world of folk-music fans and scholars as an important figure in the mid-century revival. That revival produced, most famously and lastingly, Bob Dylan, whose genius Van Ronk was the first to recognize.

Van Ronk's role as a figure in America's cultural history and as influence on the direction of its popular music seems only now to be coming into scrutiny and appreciation. Perhaps in death Van Ronk will be more famous than he was when he was alive. I hope so.

This CD is a companion piece to his recently published posthumous memoir of the same title, written with music journalist Elijah Wald. Though often pigeon-holed as a blues singer, Van Ronk had a range of musical interests, prominently including traditional jazz, theater songs, singer-songwriters, and non-blues folk. This retrospective, taken from private and concert recordings from 1957 to 1969, is one that all Van Ronk fans will want to have. It showcases a dizzying range of material, from a serious reading of "On Top of Old Smoky" to unaccompanied ballads like "The Cruel Ship's Captain" to the scatological humor of "Shaving Cream." Not to mention Brecht-Weill's "As You Make Your Bed" and Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now," the latter a true stunner, perhaps the finest version ever recorded by anybody, including its composer. Or the biting and very, very funny parody of the Stalinists who dominated the '50s urban-folk movement, "Way Down in Lubyanka Prison," set preposterously and hilariously to the "Columbus Stockade" melody.

In a small number of instances, the sound quality is not good. One wishes, for example, that Van Ronk had recorded the Bahamian spiritual "All My Trials" in a studio. The jazz-band version of "Salty Dog" was recorded in a studio, but so badly as to be all but unlistenable. Still, Wald, who produced the disc and chose the selections, has done his best with what he had. If there is a Dave Van Ronk revival, maybe it will start here.
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