Folksinger

by Dave Van Ronk

Folksinger cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1962
  • Label: Prestige
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:43
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' captured his signature gravelly voice and ragtime-influenced acoustic fingerpicking on this seminal Prestige release. 'Folksinger' deeply influenced the Greenwich Village scene, teaching essential traditional blues structures to young disciples like Bob Dylan.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, acoustic, death, christian, folk, traditional, bluesy, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Samson and Delilah (3:30)
  2. Cocaine Blues (4:13)
  3. You've Been a Good Old Wagon (2:16)
  4. Fixin' to Die (2:50)
  5. Hang Me, Oh Hang Me (3:07)
  6. Long John (2:10)
  7. Chicken Is Nice (2:29)
  8. He Was a Friend of Mine (3:29)
  9. Motherless Children (3:45)
  10. Stackalee (3:32)
  11. Mr. Noah (1:28)
  12. Come Back Baby (3:48)
  13. Poor Lazarus (5:06)

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