Something Special/Back in Town

Kingston Trio | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 11, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B00004TZZJ
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,031 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Brown Mountain Light

2. One More Town

3. O Willow Waly

4. Tell It On The Mountain

5. Little Boy

6. Strange Day

7. Away Rio

8. Pullin' Away

9. She Was Too Good To Me

10. Jane, Jane, Jane

11. Portland Town

12. Old Joe Clark

13. Georgia Stockade

14. Ann

15. Ah, Woe, Ah, Me

16. Walkin' This Road To My Town

17. The World I Used To Know

18. Salty Dog

19. Let's Get Together

20. An Isle In The Water

See all 25 tracks on this disc

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Something Special/Back in Town

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unique Kingston Trio Recordings, July 27, 2000

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This review is from: Something Special/Back in Town (Audio CD)

The SOMETHING SPECIAL-BACK IN TOWN Kingston Trio CD is a combination of two unique KT recordings. I had both albums many years ago but they were in mono sound so the high quality CD recording seems especially outstanding. The songs on SOMETHING SPECIAL all have an orchestra background. While the sound is not traditional KT, I think the strings add a beautiful touch to "One More Town" and "Pulling Away." BACK IN TOWN is a live recording at San Francisco's Hungry i. Along with some excellent songs ("Ann" "Farewell Captain") it captures the feeling of a classic KT concert by including the jokes and stories spoken between the songs. There is a slight variation from the old album. Rather than start each selection with talking and ending with a song, the CD selections start with the song and end with talking. A great collection!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One out of Two ant' bad, August 19, 2001

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WKT (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Something Special/Back in Town (Audio CD)

Let me just say that this CD is worth the price for "Back in Town" alone. The only reason I'm giving it 3 stars and not 5 is that "Something Special" is really not. The song selectons are not the best--and they--to me anyway--are OVER produced. The Kingston Trio were always best in their 'rawist' form,ie live--in concert or in the studio--no strings, no backup vocals.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two lesser Kingston trio albums, one studio and one live, May 23, 2003

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Something Special/Back in Town (Audio CD)

Not that there is any particular rhyme or reason to which two Kingston Trio albums are being put together on Collector's Choice CDs, but this one is rather interesting. The 1962 album "Something Special" was a studio album that covered mostly old traditional folk songs like "Go Tell It On the Mountain" and "Old Joe Clark" spruced up by a full orchestra playing behind the boys. In contrast, the 1964 album "Back in Town" was a live album, featuring the Kingston Trio at San Francisco's "Hungry i" where they performed their big hit "Tom Dooley," but unless you are a devotee of the group you will be unfamiliar with most of these songs. My preference is for the later live album, mainly because I like my folk music to have a more authentic sound. While I like "One More Town," the musical accompaniment does not need to have anything more than guitars and banjo as far as I am concerned. Besides, there is just a much better feel to the live performances, which includes the jokes and banter along with the singing (e.g., "Farewell Captain," "So Hi"). I would rate "Something Special" as a 3 and "Back in Town" as a 4, rounding up because, after all, you are getting two albums on one CD. Final thought: there is a two year gap between the albums and one is studio while the other is live, but notice that there are no duplications on any of the songs, which might be the ultimate logic behind this pairing in the end.