Best of Folk Era

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 8, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gnp Crescendo
• ASIN: B00000J7W4
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #341,402 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Walk Right In

2. Tom Dooley

3. A Summer Long

4. The Unicorn

5. I'll Never Find Another You

6. If I Had a Hammer

7. A Little Bitty Tear

8. Lemon Tree

9. There But for Fortune

10. Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)

11. Goodnight Irene

12. Greenfields

13. Silver Threads and Golden Needles

14. There's a Meetin' Here Tonight

15. Washington Square

16. Green, Green

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A nice collection., June 27, 2000

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This review is from: Best of Folk Era (Audio CD)

This CD does a good job of sampling many of the best songs of Folk Music. "I'll Never Find Another You" by The Seekers is one that is not anthologized very often. You also get a small dose of Irish Folk with The Rovers. This is not a bad introduction into the Folk Music genre. But, you will want to purchase albums by these artists once you get this.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD!, January 17, 2002

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geatornez82 "Cartoon Connoisseur" (Germantown, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Folk Era (Audio CD)

This CD is great! All of the songs are the original recordings and sound wonderful. It also has an equally wonderful selection of hard to find Folk Hits, such as "Washington Square" and "The Unicorn." All in all, this is a wonderful CD!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good, but random, selection, February 6, 2005

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Peter Reeve (Thousand Oaks, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Folk Era (Audio CD)

The 'Folk Revival' occurred in the late 50s and early 60s. It followed on from the trad jazz and skiffle of the 50s and led naturally to the 'Beatles meet Folk' of The Byrds and others. It is the music affectionately (and hilariously) parodied in the movie "A Mighty Wind". It would be great fun, especially if you have not yet seen the movie, and are unfamiliar with the music, to listen to this CD just before watching the movie.

Unfortunately, the CD does not quite deliver what it promises. It is too unfocused. The Weavers 1950 hit, Goodnight Irene, belongs to an earlier, purer, folk tradition, as does Burl Ives, and the Dixieland sound of The Village Stompers (great though it is) has no place here at all. To represent a whole musical era with just 16 tracks, a more precise selection is needed.

The sleeve notes are very good although, oddly, they are printed in a sequence different from that of the tracks on the CD. There is some good music on this album but everything about it seems haphazard.