The Prestige/Folklore Years, Vol. 2: The New City Blues

The Prestige/Folklore Years (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Prestige
• ASIN: B000000ZCB
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,945 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #75 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > West Coast Blues

Track Listings

1. Cocaine Blues

2. Death Letter Blues

3. Red River Blues

4. How Long Blues

5. San Francisco Bay Blues

6. Sleepy Man Blues

7. Aberdeen Mississippi Blues

8. Motherless Child Blues

9. Startin' for Chicago

10. Ramblin' Man

11. Crow Jane

12. Light Rain

13. Kennedy Blues

14. Orphan's Blues

15. If You Don't Want Me Baby

16. Watchdog Blues

17. Four Women Blues

18. Alberta

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars city blues singers folk meet country blues songs, June 26, 2006

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Alfred Johnson (boston, ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Prestige/Folklore Years, Vol. 2: The New City Blues (Audio CD)

Since my youth I have had an ear for roots music, whether I was conscious of that fact or not. The original of that interest first centered on the blues, then early rock and roll and later, with the folk revival of the early 1960's, folk music. I have often wondered about the source of this interest. I am, and have always been a city boy, and an Eastern city boy at that. Nevertheless, over time I have come to appreciate many more forms of roots music than in my youth. The subject of the following review is an example.

Dave Van Ronk singing Cocaine Blues in his raspy style; Tracy Nelson with her earth mother voice sing Ramblin' Man; Jesse Fuller dong anything; Geoff Muldaur going back to the roots with Sleepy Man Blues and Tom Rush and Eric Von Schmidt for added pleasure. what the heck is there not to like about this album if you like the place where city blue singers meet country blues songs. Get this CD. Technically not the best, but remember the songs when you first heard them back in the dark ages before digital. That's what you get and that is o.k..