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Four Decades of Folk Rock [BOX SET]

Bob Dylan (Performer), Stills and Nash Crosby (Performer), Richard and Linda Thompson (Performer), Steve Wynn (Performer), Barry McGuire (Performer), Fairport Convention (Performer), Dexys Midnight Runners (Performer), Sarah McLachlan (Performer), The Turtles (Performer)
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (September 11, 2007)
  • Original Release Date: September 11, 2007
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set
  • Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
  • Label: Time Life Entertainment
  • ASIN: B000Q7ZNXQ
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,005 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. LIKE A ROLLING STONE – Bob Dylan
2. EVE OF DESTRUCTION – Barry McGuire
3. IT AIN’T ME BABE – The Turtles
4. YOU WERE ON MY MIND – We Five
5. DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC – The Lovin’ Spoonful
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Disc: 2
1. WOODEN SHIPS – Crosby, Stills & Nash
2. FOTHERINGAY – Fairport Convention
3. COMING INTO LOS ANGELES – Arlo Guthrie
4. ANYWHERE LIKE HEAVEN – James Taylor
5. JOHN BARLEYCORN – Traffic
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Disc: 3
1. WALL OF DEATH – Richard & Linda Thompson
2. COME ON EILEEN – Dexys Midnight Runners
3. TALK ABOUT THE PASSION – R.E.M.
4. WHAT’S SHE DONE TO YOUR MIND – The Rain
5. PASS IT ON – Lone
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Disc: 4
1. CAROLYN – Steve Wynn
2. DRAWN TO THE RHYTHM – Sarah McLachlan
3. ANGELS – Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey
4. STILL BE AROUND – Uncle Tupelo
5. GALILEO – Indigo Girls
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With 71 tracks that run the gamut of folk rock, singersongwriter,
country rock, roots rock and Americana spanning over 40 years, Four Decades of Folk Rock is so
comprehensive that it not only includes the most important
songs of these genres, but also spotlights folk
tracks performed by rock bands, rock songs recorded by folk acts and experiments by both along the way.
Showcasing artists as diverse and influential as Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, the Grateful Dead and Fleetwood
Mac, the collection takes in all the changes wrought by time and generations. With highlights from latter day champions like R.E.M., Natalie Merchant, the Indigo Girls,
John Hiatt, and Sarah McLachlan this set conclusively establishes
folk rock as a powerful, enduring form of music.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great overview of the history of Folk Rock, September 11, 2007
This is an amazing box set - but Amazon's got it wrong - this is a FOUR DISC SET - not one disc!

The album contains 71 songs. The first disc (The 60's) include Bob Dylan, Buffalo Springfield, The Stone Poneys, Jefferson Airplane - and my favorite - Barry MCguire's Eve of Destruction. Disc 2 (The 70's), features James Taylor, Jackson Browne (another favorite), Joan Baez, Fleetweed Mac, Crosby Stills & Nash, and of course, The Grateful Dead. The 3rd Disc (The 80's) contained some surprises, with R.E.M., Suzanne Vega, 10,000 Maniacs, and The Roches. The final disc (The 90's & Beyond) Includes Wilco, Sarah McLachlan (a great choice), and the Indigo Girls.

The liner notes (60 pages!) trace the history of folk rock and include some great photos of Bob Dylan, Wilco, CSN, The Grateful Dead and more.

All in all, this is great set with something for everyone.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Four Decades = Four Discs!, September 11, 2007
Just for clarification, this is a 4 disc set! Not sure why it's listed here as only 1 disc...
This is a great compilation for many reasons. Firstly, it successfully documents the journey that the Folk Rock genre has taken over the last four decades. This is an ambitious goal, to say the least, but Time Life does a great job here!

The first two discs, the '60s and '70s, are chock full of true classics. The track listing reads like a "Who's Who" of the most important artists of the time (the Turtles, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Band, The Byrds, The Mamas and The Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills & Nash, Arlo Guthrie, James Taylor, Grateful Dead, Rod Stewart, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Fleetwood Mac, and on and on...) These are a must have for any rock collector period!


In my opinion, the next two discs (the '80s and '90s) are what truly make this set unique. These discs feature the artists who have made Folk Rock what it is today (Steve Earle, The Pogues, Richard & Linda Thompson, 10,000 Maniacs, Lucinda Williams, Uncle Tupelo, Natalie Merchant, Son Volt, John Hiatt, Billy Bragg, the great Wilco, and many more...)

This is a great opportunity for the younger generations to learn the roots of Folk Rock. With over 60 pages of liner notes written by Ted Meyers, who compiled the set, this is a truly educational package.
Thanks Time Life, you've done it again!


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5.0 out of 5 stars An expansive take on "folk rock", February 14, 2009
Time Life Records was founded in the early `60s as a division of Time Inc., but sold off in 2003 to operate independently as part of the international conglomerate Direct Holdings Worldwide. Though no longer a part of the Time media empire, the label continues to be a terrific voice in the music reissue market, selling its wares via the Internet, standard retail channels, and most famously through television informercials. The latter may give Time Life the taint of earlier reissue labels like Ronco and K-Tel, but the high quality of their sets puts them firmly in league with the cream of the reissue industry. The label scored a coup last year with the first official reissue of the Hank Williams "Mother's Finest" radio transcriptions, and their more recent anthology of music from the civil rights movement, Let Freedom Sing, was a tour de force.

This 2007 4-CD set explores the combination of folk and rock that sprang from the intersection of the late-50s/early-60s folk revival and the arrival of the Beatles on U.S. shores. Each of the four discs covers a decade (more or less), starting with the `60s on disc one and Dylan's explosive electrification of "Like a Rolling Stone." It might have made more sense to open with the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man," which hit the charts in June of 1965, but the compilation producers' focus on Dylan pegs Newport as the pivotal moment; the Byrds are represented by their end-of-65 hit of Pete Seeger's "Turn! Turn! Turn!" Notable in their absence are the Beatles, Beau Brummels and Simon & Garfunkel. The `60s could easily have consumed all four discs (and virtually do so on the Folk Years set), so the producers chose to cover a generous helping of familiar bases and flesh out the first disc with brilliantly selected album sides by Tim Hardin, Fred Neil, Jefferson Airplane, Tim Buckley, The Band and Tim Rose. The latter's oft-covered "Morning Dew," is particularly impressive in this original incarnation.

Folk rock passed to singer-songwriters in the 1970s, the most commercially successful of which were more socially passive than their 1960s antecedents. There was still discontent to be found, but it was found on the more expansive and less commercially mainstream FM dial. Arlo Guthrie could lift a hit onto the charts with the non-contentious "City of New Orleans," but his counterculture "Flying into Los Angeles" flew under AM's radar. Disc two finds the social consciousness of folk rock's first wave transplanted, post-Woodstock, into heavier arrangements and picking up progressive sounds from British acts Fairport Convention, Traffic, Thin Lizzy, Nick Drake, Steeleye Span and Pentangle. U.S. singer-songwriters are heard here, but some of the sharper edges, like Joni Mitchell and John Prine are missing.

The moribund `70s provoked a punk backlash by decade's end, and the DIY aesthetic sparked a parallel movement of retro-pop and roots. The "Paisley Underground" in Los Angeles took cues from Gram Parsons, the Lovin' Spoonful and Buffalo Springfield, and as imitation spun into innovation, the Bangles, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade and Dave Alvin each found original footings. At the same time, a second wave of country outlaws began to chafe against the crossover aspirations of `80s Nashville, and unencumbered by mass commercial concerns, stretched their roots to the same folk sources from which their musical ancestors had grown. For a time the artists stayed underground, even as their songs, such as Lucinda Williams' "Passionate Kisses," became hits for others (Mary Chapin Carpenter in this case). In the next two decades, the underground would find more direct channels to its listeners.

By the `90s, the media landscape changing, and by the `00s the marketing landscape was quickly losing the friction imposed by major record labels. Music radio had all but imploded, replaced by individually programmed channels of a listener's iPod, and streams of music found their way through film and television, commercials, on-line downloading (both legal and illegal), YouTube videos, and a wealth of Internet critics and bloggers clamoring to tout their latest discoveries. The directness with which artists could connect to listeners via MySpace returned the intimate fan connection of the `60s coffeehouse. Ironically, the underground flourished amidst the mass exposure of the Internet.

Though "folk rock" as a named genre is generally regarded as having only opened a brief window in the `60s, its influence trickled into many subsequent forms, as collected across discs two through four. It's may seem like a stretch to apply the label to country-tinged works such as found on disc four, but there is a line through the singer-songwriters of the `70s, the roots movement of the `80s and the emergence of Americana (or at least its labeling) in the `90s. It's that through-line, rather than a catalog of songs from mid-to-late `60s, that is this set's offering. Transiting around from Uncle Tupelo, Wilco and Son Volt to the Band's 1968 cover of Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" on disc one completes an unbroken circle. Disc one gives a solid shot of nostalgia, discs two through four carry forward the producers' theme and provide deep content for connoisseurs.

The 63-page booklet accompanying this set includes a lengthy essay by author Bruce Pollock and extensive song notes by ex-Rhino Records producer Ted Myers. Discographical details include recording dates and locations, personnel, and release and chart dates. Everything here is stereo except for tracks 4, 11, and 13 on disc one, and the mastering engineers at DigiPrep have done a fine job of knitting disparate material into cohesive sounding discs. If you can get past thinking the title implies four CDs of music from 1965-1969, you'll be fascinated by the expansive view essayed here. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]
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