Living Legend Years

Bob Gibson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 22, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CDBY
• ASIN: B001DGSD3G
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,040 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. That's the Way It's Gonna Be

2. Let the Band Play Dixie

3. Box of Candy (And a Piece of Fruit)

4. Me and Jimmie Rodgers

5. The Dolphins

6. Smoke Dawson

7. Billy Come Home

8. Pilgrim

9. I Never Got to Know Her Very Well

10. And Lovin' You

11. What You Gonna Do About Love

12. Sing for the Song

13. Living Legend

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Aging Troubadour, May 18, 2009

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J. Herman "The Critic" (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living Legend Years (Audio CD)

An influential folk revivalist in the late-50's and early-60's, Bob Gibson twenty years later beat his nasty drug habits and came back as a folksy older-but-wiser singer-songwriter (often in collaboration with professional weirdo Shel Silverstein). This compilation CD samples the four albums he released on small midwestern labels between 1974 and 1984, and throws in a few previously un-released tracks to boot. While each of the individual records still holds up well today, "The Living Legend Years" is somewhat arbitrary in its choice of material and comes off a bit schizophrenic. In particular, only one song from "The Perfect High" (probably the most entertaining entry from the later Gibson) was included. For a sampling, this will do just fine, but listeners would do better simply to pick up each of the originals.