To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places (1994)

About this title: Van Ronk covers 28 songs by friends new and old, here and departed, on this double CD, including Bob Dylan ("Subterranean Homesick Blues"), Tom Waits ("Jersey Girl"), Randy Newman ("Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear"), Phil Ochs ("Outside of a Small Circle of Friends"), Christine Lavin ("Amoeba Hop"), the Rev. Gary Davis ("Soon My Work Will Be Done"), Paul Simon ("Punky's Dilemma"), Tom Paxton ("Ramblin' Boy"), Patrick Sky ("Many a Mile"), Ian Tyson ("Four Strong Winds"), Paul Geremia ("Stone Sober Blues"), and Joni Mitchell ("Song to a Seagull"). Van Ronk does remarkably well with ... read more

Tracks:

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues [Dylan]
2. Where Were You Last Night? [Christian]
3. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear [Newman]
4. Ramblin' Boy [Paxton]
5. My Name Joe [Massengill]
6. Ouside of a Small Circle of Friends [Ochs]
7. Entering Marion [Forster]
8. The Drinking Song [Hardy]
9. Amoeba Hop [Lavin]
10. Things [Greenhill]
11. Stone Sober Blues [Geremia]
12. Joshua Gone Barbados [VonSchmidt]
13. Soon My Work Will All Be Done [Davis/Davis]
14. To All My Friends in Far Flung Places [Voss]
15. Wrap the World Around Your Finger [Mahan]
16. Jersey Girl [Waits]
17. Punky's Dilemma [Simon]
18. I'm Hip [Frishberg/Dorough]
19. Harbour of Love [Frandsen/Garin/Hipk]
20. Awful Kind of Blues [White/Hammond]
21. Why the Blues Don't Worry Me [James]
22. A Sailor's Prayer [McDonald]
23. Many a Mile [Sky]
24. Four Strong Winds [Tyson]
25. The Simple Things We Said (Les Choses Les Plus Simple) [Yacoub]
26. Song to a Seagull [Mitchell]
27. Heart on the Run [Intondi/Rossini]
28. To All My Friends in Far Flung Places (Reprise) [Voss]

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