Folk Music at Newport, Vol. 1 (1995)

About this title: This is an album that grows on you gradually -- but only because it covers such a diverse collection of styles in the course of seventy minutes. The majority of the cuts on this album are being released for the first time, while all but one (the Kingston Trio's "M.T.A.," from 1959) are drawn from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. The recordings are of quite variable quality -- a few sound positively raw. However, the lineup is quite interesting -- Joan Baez appears, of course, but in a duet with Donovan; other than Baez, you have Ian and Sylvia, Richard and Mimi Farina, the New Lost City ... read more

Tracks:

1. Seperation Blues [Sky]
2. Someday Soon [Tyson]
3. Play One More [Tyson]
4. Blue Moon of Kentucky [Monroe]
5. Shady Grove [Traditional]
6. The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite [Hopkins]
7. Danse de Blackberry Briar [Public Domain]
8. I Will Do My Last Singing in This Land Somewhere [Davis/Traditional]
9. Gold Watch and Chain [Carter]
10. Wildwood Flower [Carter]
11. Forked Deer/Eighth of January [Public Domain]
12. A Swallow Song [Farina]
13. Milk 'Em in the Evening Blues
14. Oh Mary, Don't You Weep [Public Domain]
15. Colours [Donovan]
16. Free Little Bird [Public Domain]
17. The Sinking of the Titanic [Lipscomb]
18. I'll Meet You in the Morning [Brumley]
19. Sadie Green (The Vamp of New Orleans) [Wells/Dunn]
20. Little Sadie [Traditional/Public]
21. Celebration for a Grey Day [Farina]
22. M.T.A. [Steiner/Hawes]
23. Candy Man [Hurt]
24. I Got It [Public Domain]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.