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1 | Down South Blues |
2 | Dave Speaks |
3 | You've Been a Good Old Wagon |
4 | Dave Speaks |
5 | Don't You Leave Me Here |
6 | Dave Speaks |
7 | Did You Hear John Hurt? |
8 | Dave Speaks |
9 | Green, Green Rocky Road |
10 | Dave Speaks |
11 | Jelly Jelly |
12 | Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out |
13 | Dave Speaks |
14 | One Meatball |
15 | Buckets of Rain |
16 | Dave Speaks |
17 | Sometime (Whatcha Gonna Do) |
18 | Sportin' Life Blues |
19 | Dave Speaks |
20 | Ace in the Hole |
21 | Dave Speaks |
22 | St. James Infirmary |
23 | Thank You |
24 | Urge for Going |
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For a performer who never dreamt of being a "folksinger," Dave Van Ronk left a deep mark on the entire folksong revival. His jazz-trained voice, masterful guitar technique, and sharp wit endeared him to audiences everywhere; his generosity of spirit earned him friendship with artists such as Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Mississippi John Hurt, and Christine Lavin. This October 2001 recording of his last concert features the incomparable "Mayor of MacDougal Street" at his lively best.
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Nominated for 2005 GRAMMY® award -- NARAS
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.39 x 4.99 inches; 4 ounces
- Manufacturer : Smithsonian Folkways
- Item model number : SFW40156
- Original Release Date : 2004
- SPARS Code : DDD
- Date First Available : January 29, 2007
- Label : Smithsonian Folkways
- ASIN : B0002739TK
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #129,171 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #503 in Traditional Blues (CDs & Vinyl)
- #925 in Traditional Jazz & Ragtime (CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,540 in Traditional Folk (CDs & Vinyl)
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2010Always loved "Big Dave" from High School days. This is the last of the Best there was. There is so much more to music than the MTV 3rd rate Vegas acts we've been cursed with from Jacko to Madonna to all their bad imitators.
Van Ronk was a tale-spinner, and gave us the why's and wherefores of each song. This is musical history, and sadly his last performance. This captures the man as well as any concert I saw. He filled the room, as people hung on every word like honey. All of the greats came to life when he told his stories and sang his songs to us.
Hey, this is the guy who let that little skinny kid from Hibbings Minn crash on his couch when he was homeless in NYC.
Listen to the master. No more will come along like Van Ronk. Now it's all too easy. Have a pretty face and a producer and be vacuuous and go on American Idol. Who would be booed off? Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Bobby Zimmerman, and this big gentle funny loving fountain of musical history and song and talent, Dave Van Ronk. RIP, Buddy!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2019Ok, so maybe you never heard of Dave Von Ronk. Your life is the less if that is so. You have the chance with this CD to hear a genius on the twelve string, and, quite improbably, as his voice was by any objective standard like a broken foghorn, a phenomenal singer, so good that when he called "Both Sides Now" " Clouds" on an album, Joni Mitchell's response was, "If Mr. Von Ronk says it's Clouds, it's Clouds." Buy this one, then see how much of his catalog you can find and buy. Your life will be better for each one you can get.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2014Adds insight to Van Ronk with this live show. Wish more people recorded this way. Kind of like MTVs storytellers.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2014Nice selection--you obviously have to like Dave Von Ronk and his style--I do,
- Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2015Perfect; very fast
- Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2005This is one of those rare perfect recordings which feel like something larger than a mere compact disc. It is the last concert Dave Van Ronk ever gave, shortly after he received the diagnosis that he had cancer. Within five months he was dead. But Van Ronk does not sound like a sick man on this sparkling night in Takoma Park, Maryland. In his singing he is a pro in top form. The songs will be familiar to those who have followed Van Ronk's career, mostly blues, vintage African-American jazz and pop songs, and relatively more recent folk-based material by Van Ronk friends Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell (whose "Urge for Going" closes the set). If I'm not mistaken, only Dylan's "Buckets of Rain" is new to the recorded repertoire. Still, Van Ronk was always expert at finding fresh depths of meaning in songs he had long been singing, and every time he did "Sportin' Life Blues" or "Green, Green Rocky Road" or "St. James Infirmary," it sounded newly alive and somehow different.
It's the stories that give one the sense that Van Ronk knew his past was what was left to him, and that it would sustain him in the short, hard future that awaited. Van Ronk, whom I knew slightly and who read a couple of my books, was the greatest storyteller I have ever heard. When I saw him, I would ask him questions I liked to think he hadn't been asked before, and he always had a riveting, hilarious, sometimes bawdy anecdote in store. This CD preserves not just the tales -- of old, long-gone musicians, of songs, of days of his life -- but the telling.
Van Ronk's memoirs will be published in May, and they will be well worth reading, but you will not hear, at least with your ears, his voice speaking to you. For that, we have this magnificent recording.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2006When I first heard folk music in my youth I felt unsure about whether I liked it or not. As least against my strong feelings about the Rolling Stones and my favorite blues artist such as Howling Wolf and Elmore James. Then on some late night radio folk show here in Boston I heard Dave Van Ronk doing `Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies' and that was it. That old-time gravelly voice (even though I found out later that he was relatively young at that time) still commands my attention in the same way.
This was Dave Van Ronk's final public performance, although it is not clear that a farewell concert was his intention here. The format is to put his funny, witty and well-formed anectotes in between the songs. For those in need of a refresher about the early days of the folk scene in New York City and Dave's part in it this is helpful. The musicanship, as always is high, even though this is a live album. Special note goes to Dylan's Buckets of Rain, Dave puts Mr. Dylan's version in the shade on that one. Urge for Going, as always, is a classic Van Ronk rendition.
The last time I saw Dave Van Ronk perform after not seeing him for a fairly long period of time was not a particularly good night as he pretty sick by that time. Moreover, his politics seemed to have crumbled over time from that of the hardened Trotskyist of his youth going out slay the benighted Stalinist for the soul of the working class. His dedication to leftist politics, as testified to by those who knew him well like Tom Paxton, was well know and passionate. Although no one asks a musical performer to wear politics on his or her sleeves as a litmus test, given his status as a prime historian/activist of the folk revival of the 1960's, this was disconcerting.
That folk scene, of which Dave was a central and guiding figure not fully recognized outside a small circle to this day, was not only defined by the search for root music and relevancy but by large political concerns such as civil rights, the struggle against war, and the need for social justice. Some of it obviously was motivated as well as simply a flat out need to make our own mark on the world. Dave was hardly the first person from this period to lose his political compass in the struggle against injustice. I say this with sadness in his case but I will always carry that memory of that late night radio experience in my head. That said, please listen to this man reach under a song. You will not forget it either.
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BIGBENReviewed in Spain on May 5, 2014
4.0 out of 5 stars Resumen vital
Un disco de plenitud, que en este tipo de musica puede darse, como en este caso, en el ocaso de la vida del cantante. Country blues que se nota autentico.
- VMJMurphyReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Late Van Ronk at his very best
Late Van Ronk at his very best. Great songs; great anecdotes. One not to miss.