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Track Listing
1. Wagoner's Lad - (with Joan Baez/Eliza Carthy)
2. Dink's Song - (with Pete Seeger/Josh White Jr.)
3. Bonnie Ship the Diamond - (with Judy Collins)
4. Cane Blues
5. Reel - (with Eliza Carthy)
6. Fair Nottamun Town - (with Jean Ritchie)
7. John the Revelator - (with Jean Ritchie/Odetta)
8. Alabama Bound - (with Pete Seeger)
9. Finnegan's Wake - (with Tommy Makem)
10. In the Evenin' - (with Pete Seeger)
11. Willie Moore - (with Joan Baez/Eliza Carthy)
12. Brazos River, The - (with Frank & Mary Hamilton)
13. Sail Away Lady - (with Odetta)
14. John Riley - (with Judy Collins)
15. Trouble in Mind - (with Josh White Jr.)
16. Whiskey in the Jar - (with Tommy Makem)
17. Virgin Mary, The - (with Odetta)
18. Pete's Song - (with Pete Seeger)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Roger McGuinn (vocals, acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars, banjo); Joan Baez, Frank Hamilton, Mary Hamilton, Odetta, Josh White, Jr (vocals, guitar); Pete Seeger (vocals, 12-string guitar, banjo, recorder); Jean Ritchie (vocals, dulcimer); Tommy Makem, Elizabeth Spaul (vocals); Eliza Carthy (fiddle); Martin Green (accordion); The Makem Brothers (background vocals).
Producers include: Roger McGuinn, Camilla McGuinn.
Includes liner notes by Roger McGuinn.
TREASURES FROM THE FOLK DEN was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.
Before he helped invent folk-rock by starting the Byrds in the mid-'60s, Roger McGuinn concentrated on the former half of that amalgam, strumming acoustic folk tunes along with legions of peers during the early-'60s folk revival. TREASURES FROM THE FOLK DEN finds McGuinn coming full circle as he enters his fifth decade of music. The traditional folk tunes included here are newly recorded versions of ones that were part of McGuinn's online project to preserve this strain of musical history, and he enlisted some of the most renowned folk musicians in the world to help him out.
Pete Seeger's banjo and weathered voice add authenticity to "Alabama Bound." Judy Collins's ever-crystalline voice brings a sparkle to "John Riley," a tune McGuinn once tackled with the Byrds. Relative youngster Eliza Carthy takes the lead with her fiddle on the instrumental "Reel." While the roots of some of these songs lie in Ireland, England and elsewhere, the paradigm approached by McGuinn is the peculiarly American one that captivated musicians and fans alike some 40 years earlier. Most importantly, this is a true "folk" album, in a new milennium where that term is misused more than ever.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...It's all lovely stuff, just voices and acoustic guitars on songs...
Uncut (09/01/2001)
4 stars out of 5 - ...A field day for folklorists and fans alike...
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