Ballads [Original recording remastered]

John Jacob Niles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Essential Media Grp
• ASIN: B000PMLIE0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,323 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless..., July 4, 2007

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Richard M. Caputo "music lover" (Warren, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
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I first purchased this on LP format at Melody Records in NYC around 1975. I found it in the American Folk bin along with artists like Jean Ritchie, etc. It was long out of print. I was listening to the likes of the British folk-rock group Fairport Convention at that time. They were mining the treasures of musicologist James Child's Ballad Book. To be quite frank, I wasn't prepared for what came through my headphones that winter evening - I felt transported to another time, another place - far away from my Park Slope brownstone. Niles' voice, phrasing,enthusiasm - he "is" what he sings - with poetry or prose set to music - he became the timeless traveling minstrel carrying tales of love, longing, betrayal, spirituality, humor, terror, and then some. BEWARE - his music is an aquired taste - listen several times, get his "Ballad Book"( your local library may have it - you pay taxes, this is free!) - and explore - when you connect with this music it will forever become part of you as it is part of our cultural past. The tales themselves are ageless - the melodies beautiful.