My Kind of Folk Songs

by Gale Garnett

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1964
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 37:39
  • Community rating: 3.62/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'My Kind of Folk Songs' places Gale Garnett within the commercially accessible side of the 1960s folk revival. The album pairs contemporary folk material with a poised vocal delivery that connects singer-songwriter intimacy to mainstream pop presentation.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, acoustic, melodic, storytelling, natural, female-vocals, traditional

Tracklist

  1. I Know You Rider (2:23)
  2. Take This Hammer (3:42)
  3. Oh Brandy Leave Me Alone (2:46)
  4. Malaika (3:18)
  5. Little Man, Nine Years Old (3:30)
  6. I Came to the City (3:05)
  7. Pretty Boy (3:14)
  8. Wanderin' (2:46)
  9. Prism Song (3:38)
  10. We'll Sing in the Sunshine (2:59)
  11. Sleep You Now (3:43)
  12. Fly Bird (2:29)

Credits

  • Traditional - written-by
  • Huddie Ledbetter - written-by
  • Josef Marais - written-by
  • Miriam Makeba - written-by
  • Kander And Ebb - written-by
  • Blind Blake - written-by

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