Dave Van Ronk - Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk
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Artist: Dave Van RonkEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-06-04
Music Label: Fantasy
Soundtracks:
- Cake Walkin' Babies From Home
- Ace In The Hole
- St. Louis Tickle
- Death Letter Blues
- All Over You
- Whoa Back Buck
- Sister Kate
- Kansas City Blues
- Green, Green Rocky Road
- See See Rider
- Rocks And Gravel
- Hesitation Blues
- God Bless The Child
- Sunday Street
- Sportin' Life
- Cocaine
- St. James Infirmary
- You've Been A Good Ole Wagon
- Spike Driver Blues
- Gaslight Rag
- Candy Man
Music reviews of Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk
Music Review: American music, Van Ronk music
Rating: 5 Stars
When he died on February 10 of this year, obituaries tended to focus on Dave Van Ronk's friendship with Bob Dylan and his influence on Dylan's early work. ("Influence" is perhaps a charitable word. On his first album Dylan stole Van Ronk's arrangement of "House of the Rising Sun" lock, stock, and barrel. Later, the Animals based their version on Dylan's version of Van Ronk's version, probably without ever having heard of Van Ronk.) As those of us who treasure his music know, however, Van Ronk was more than just an influence. He was an extraordinary singer and guitar player in his own right, creator of a distinctive style which fused African-American vernacular genres with other musics from Anglo-American folk tradition, Tin Pan Alley, art-song writers Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Brecht/Weill, and more. It was somehow, in the end, a seamless whole called Van Ronk music. Nobody did it better, and nobody else would have even attempted to fashion a coherent whole out of so many disparate elements.This welcome reissue brings to CD two old Van Ronk albums, one recorded in 1963 in New York City, the other in 1981 in London. Some of the cuts on the former (which comprises the first 12 songs on this single CD) have Van Ronk comfortably fronting the Red Onion Jazz Band, underscoring the singer's roots in early jazz. In the second Van Ronk revisits old favorites, with just his guitar for company. He needs no more than that to turn in versions of Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" and Brownie McGhee's "Sportin' Life" that will stop you in your tracks. One of two originals, "Gaslight Rag" good-humoredly revisits the Village folk scene, where it all started for Van Ronk, Dylan, Phil Ochs, and others who brought new life to American music by reminding Americans where it came from.
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The folk revival of the 1960s would have sounded very different if Dave Van Ronk had taken Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers up on their offer to become the third member of the group that later became Peter, Paul, and Mary. But, as he insisted at the time, he was a blues and jazz singer, not a folkie, and the music on Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk bears him out. This CD pairs his 1963 LP In the Tradition, which includes six tracks with the Red Onion Jazz Band, with nine of the original 11 tracks from his 1983 LP Your Basic Dave Van Ronk. Jazz and blues are pretty much interchangeable to Van Ronk, and he delights in mixing the two together, as he does when he adds some raucous scat singing to his version of the Reverend Gary Davis classic "Candy Man" or bends his guitar strings Mississippi Delta-style on his rendition of Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child." The raunchy blues and raucous jazz on Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk are a welcome reminder that folk music is more than ancient ballads and sensitive singer-songwriters. --Michael SimmonsFolk CDs
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