Nashville at Newport: Folk Festival [Live]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 5, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B000000EH9
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,720 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Battle of New Orleans - Jimmie Driftwood

2. Cannonball Blues (He's Solid Gone) - Maybelle Carter

3. Mule Skinner Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott

4. Walking in My Sleep - Hazel Dickens/Alice Foster Gerrard

5. A Tiny Broken Heart - Hazel Dickens/Alice Foster Gerrard

6. The One I Love Is Gone - Hazel Dickens/Alice Foster Gerrard

7. Late Last Night When My Willie Came Home - Arthur Smith

8. Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues - Arthur Smith

9. Pig in the Pen - Arthur Smith

10. Hell Among the Yearlings - Arthur Smith

11. Blue Smoke - Ike Everly

12. Everly Rag - Ike Everly

13. Step It up and Go - Ike Everly

14. Bass Fiddle Rag - Ike Everly

15. Nellie Gray - Ike Everly

16. Dirty Guitar Blues - Ike Everly

17. Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys

18. Cannonball Rag - Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys

19. Fox Chase Medley - Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys

20. I Wash My Hands in Muddy Water - Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys

See all 31 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

A fascinating illustration of the changes wrought by the waning folk revival, this ample set culls 31 performances from the Newport Folk Festivals from 1963 to '68, surely the event's most vital and traditionally grounded years. While the urban folk culture long looked at commercial country music with suspicion (the feeling was mutual), musical affinities gradually won out. This set captures the excitement of those changes. Hearing Mother Maybelle Carter introduce and then steam through "Cannonball Blues" is alone worth the asking price. The recording quality is rugged in places, but where else can you hear live performances from Ike Everly and son Don, and six full band cuts from Roy Acuff and his Smokey Mountain Boys (including a thrilling "Dixie Breakdown," a banjo set piece for Larry McNeely)? --Roy Kasten

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5.0 out of 5 stars Real treasure for people that hates Nashvillesound., September 15, 2008

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This is a real tresure.Here the most famous star from Grand Ole opry Roy Acuff is in great shape.His singing on "I washed my hand in muddy waters"Is great.
Johnny Cash is hoarse and in bad singing shape,but you love it to hear him tell about his new album "Bitter tears" and sings "Ira hayes" from the new album.His hoarse voice suits this song verywell.Great singing by not so familiar artists.Well spent money,buy it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, July 7, 2011

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This review is from: Nashville at Newport: Folk Festival (Audio CD)

I had an old copy of this that was flawed, just at the point where Ike Everly arrived, and never thought to get my act together and replace it until recently. Glad I did. A historic record, especially as there is so little of Everly's work on record. It's all great. One does have a sneaking wish for some video of what the Newport audience thought of their country cousins in those days before the dam burst all to hell.