Playin' Favorites [Import, Original recording remastered]

Don McLean | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 12, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B0000011LB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414,728 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sitting on Top of the World

2. Living With the Blues

3. Mountains O' Mourne

4. Fool's Paradise

5. Love O' Love

6. Medley: Bill Cheeatham/Old Joe Clark

7. Everyday

8. Ancient History

9. Over the Mountains

10. Lovesick Blues

11. New Mule Skinner Blues

12. Happy Trails

Editorial Reviews

Don's 1974 album of covers featured renditions of such songs as Muleskinner Blues; Sitting on Top of the World , and Lovesick Blues .

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic -a side of Don McLean that most people never heard, April 1, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Playin' Favorites (Audio CD)

Buried away in boxes with many other old albums is my prized copy of "Playin' Favorites." This has always been one of my "desert island" records and its influence on me has lasted over 25 years. When I pick up my guitar and sing, I always come back to songs from this album - "Ancient History", "Lovesick Blues", "Everyday", and "Over The Mountains."

The arrangements are simple, and the additional performers top notch, including the bluegrass mandolin virtuoso Frank Wakefield. The songs cover a wide range of styles, all in the country or folk vein, from Hank Williams, to Roy Rogers, to bluegrass banjo, to the tender British Isles ballad "Over The Mountains", to the great Buddy Holly tune, "Everyday." If you want to hear another side of Don McLean, beyond the overplayed "American Pie" that we all know, the side that also wrote and performed the beautiful "Vincent", then "Playin' Favorites" is for you.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So Glad It is Still Available, June 18, 2004

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James F. Conner II (Gainesville, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Playin' Favorites (Audio CD)

This album is a confluence of songs often turned to by fine musicians as the building blocks for their life in music. The session players all shine...Chuck Leavell, Frank Wakefield, and Neil Larsen most notably. You will cherish this album as I have. I keep it by the door. If the house catches fire, it goes with me.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable album stands the test of time, October 26, 1999

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A. Butterfield (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Playin' Favorites (Audio CD)

Years before Nanci Griffith thought of doing Other Voices, Other Rooms, Don McLean came up with this collection (tribute is too strong a word) of folk songs from bygone days, interspersed with some tunes from the likes of Buddy Holly (a great version of Everyday). Nicely recorded, subtly done, one to treasure.