Dear Companion (1995)

About this title: Two-CD, 60-song compilation of 1960s recordings including both of her Columbia albums, her 1965 Dot album That's My Song, a couple of 1962 cuts ("My Love Is a Rider" and "Gregorio Cortez") whose initial release is unhelpfully unidentified in the liner notes, her two 1966-67 folk-rock Columbia singles, and no less than 18 Columbia outtakes and alternates spanning 1961-67. Although this doesn't have her mid-1960s live Town Hall albums (available on Bear Family's At Town Hall CD), her pre-Columbia album for Tradition, or her psychedelic late-'60s albums as leader of the Carolyn Hester Coalition, ... read more

Tracks:

1. Swing and Jubilee [Public Domain]
2. Come Back Baby [Public Domain]
3. I'll Fly Away [Brumley]
4. Dear Companion [Traditional]
5. Los Bibilicos [Public Domain]
6. Once I Had a Sweetheart [Traditional]
7. Galway Shawl [Traditional]
8. When Jesus Lived in Galilee [Traditional]
9. Dink's Song [Lomax/Lomax]
10. Pobre de Mi [Pabro]
11. Yarrow [Traditional]
12. Virgin Mary [Remake] [Traditional]
13. My Love Is a Rider (Bucking Bronco) [Traditional]
14. Cortez, Gregorio [& Menahem, Jacques] [Traditional]
15. Simple Gifts [Traditional]
16. Brave Wolfe [Traditional]
17. Sally Free and Easy [Tawney]
18. I Loved a Lass [Traditional]
19. This Life I'm Living [Cotten]
20. Pera Stous [Traditional]
21. Tumbando Caņa [Castro/Blanco]
22. Cuckoo [Traditional]
23. The Praties They Grow Small [Peterson]
24. East Virginia [Traditional]
25. Come, O My Love [Traditional]
26. I Want Jesus [Remake] [Traditional]
27. That's My Song [Tomsco/Tomsco]
28. Stay Not Late [Hester]
29. Amapola [Lacalle/Games]
30. Ain't That Rain [Tomsco/Tomsco]
31. Momma's Tough Little Soldier [Paxton]
32. Lonesome Tears [Holly]
33. Everytime [Paxton]
34. Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound [Paxton]
35. Ten Thousand Candles [Hester]
36. The Times I've Had [Spoelstra]
37. Jute Mill Song [MacColl]
38. The Rivers of Texas [Carlyle]
39. Early Morning [Phelps]
40. Don't Ask Questions [Levitt/Thomas]
41. Reason to Believe [Hardin]
42. Blues Run the Game [Frank]
43. I Love My Dog [Stevens]
44. Bye Bye Brown Eyes [Kretzmer/Martin]
45. One in a Million Sunshine Girl [Phelps]
46. Majhires [Shankar]
47. Outside the Window [Version 1] [Rhoades]
48. Hello You Tomorrows [MacKinnon]
49. Penny Lane [Lennon/McCartney]
50. Blues Run the Game [Frank]
51. Come Back Baby [Public Domain]
52. Los Bibilicos [Public Domain]
53. I'll Fly Away [Brumley]
54. Virgin Mary [Traditional]
55. Lonesome Tears [Holly]
56. Summertime [Gershwin/Gershwin]
57. I Want Jesus [Traditional]
58. Lonesome Tears [Remake 1] [Holly]
59. Outside the Window [Version 2] [Rhoades]
60. Lonesome Tears [Remake 2] [Holly]

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