Four Decades of Folk Rock (2007)

About this title: Four Decades of Folk Rock is an expansive box set, allowing one disc and over an hour of music for each decade. For those who would argue that folk rock was primarily a 1960s' phenomenon in the United States and a 1960s' and 1970s' phenomenon in Britain, the box counters that the musical strains of folk rock have informed everyone from R.E.M to the Bangles to David Gray. It's unlikely, though, that anyone but record shop nerds and music historians will be very interested in the debate. For everyone else, the set will be measured by the quality of the music itself, and on that account, Four ... read more

Tracks:

1. Like a Rolling Stone [Dylan]
2. Eve of Destruction [Sloan/Barri]
3. It Ain't Me Babe [Dylan]
4. You Were on My Mind [Fricker]
5. Do You Believe in Magic [Sebastian]
6. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) [Seeger]
7. Go Where You Wanna Go [Phillips]
8. Don't Make Promises [Hardin]
9. Season of the Witch [Leitch]
10. That's the Bag I'm In [Neil]
11. Get Together [Powers]
12. Today [Balin/Kantner]
13. For What It's Worth [Stills]
14. I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain [Buckley]
15. Morning Dew [Dobson/Rose]
16. Different Drum [Nesmith]
17. I Shall Be Released [Dylan]
18. Everybody's Talkin' [Neil]
19. Wooden Ships [Crosby/Kantner/Stil]
20. Fotheringay [Denny]
21. Coming into Los Angeles [Guthrie]
22. Anywhere Like Heaven [Taylor]
23. John Barleycorn [Traditional]
24. Box of Rain [Hunter/Lesh]
25. One of These Things First [Drake]
26. Reason to Believe [Hardin]
27. American Pie [McLean]
28. People on the Highway [Cox/Jansch/McShee]
29. Rock Me on the Water [Browne]
30. Birds [Live] [Young]
31. Whiskey in the Jar [Traditional]
32. Love Has No Pride [Kaz/Titus]
33. Diamonds and Rust [Baez]
34. All Around My Hat [Traditional]
35. Gold Dust Woman [Nicks]
36. Wall of Death [Thompson]
37. Come on Eileen [Rowland/Patterson]
38. Talk About the Passion [Stipe/Buck/Mills/Be]
39. What's She Done to Your Mind [Roback/Pucci]
40. Pass It On [McKee]
41. A Pair of Brown Eyes [MacGowan]
42. Love Radiates Around [Johnson]
43. Someday [Earle]
44. Luka [Vega]
45. Fourth of July [Alvin]
46. See How We Are [Doe/Cervenka]
47. Let It Rain [Bramlett/Bramlett]
48. Don't Talk [Drew/Merchant]
49. Fisherman's Blues [Scott/Wickham]
50. Hazy Shade of Winter [Simon]
51. Five Cups of Coffee [Olson]
52. Passionate Kisses [Williams]
53. Put Down the Gun [Case]
54. Carolyn [Wynn]
55. Drawn to the Rhythm [McLachlan]
56. Angels [Holsapple/Stamey]
57. Still Be Around [Farrar/Tweedy/Heido]
58. Galileo [Saliers]
59. Fade into You [Sandoval/Roback]
60. Box Full of Letters [Tweedy]
61. Where I Go [Merchant]
62. Loose String [Farrar]
63. Love to Love You [Corrs]
64. Shredding the Document [Hiatt]
65. Sunny Came Home [Colvin/Leventhal]
66. She Came Along to Me [Guthrie/Bragg/Tweed]
67. We Have Forgotten [Slocum]
68. Babylon [Gray]
69. Chief [Griffin]
70. Stupid [McCue]
71. Rain Come Down [Adams]

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