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Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual

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Released
  
1959

Release date
  
1959

Genre
  
Folk music

Artist
  
Dave Van Ronk

Label
  
Folkways Records

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Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues and a Spiritual (1959)
  
Dave Van Ronk and the Ragtime Jug Stompers (1960)

Dave Van Ronk albums
  
Van Ronk Sings, The Folkways Years - 19, Going Back to Brooklyn, Just Dave Van Ronk, Sweet & Lowdown

Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues and a Spiritual is an album by American folksinger Dave Van Ronk, released in 1959.

Contents

It was also released on LP as Gambler's Blues and as Black Mountain Blues. All these releases are out of print. Some of the songs can be found on the 1991 Smithsonian Folkways CD release The Folkways Years, 1959 - 1961.

Side one

  1. "Duncan and Brady" – 3:00
  2. "Black Mountain Blues" – 4:00
  3. "In the Pines" – 3:04
  4. "My Baby's So Sweet" – 2:32
  5. "Twelve Gates to the City" – 3:12
  6. "Winin' Boy Blues" – 2:35
  7. "If You Leave Me Pretty Mama"

Side two

  1. "Backwater Blues"
  2. "Careless Love" (W.C. Handy, Martha E. Koenig, Spencer Williams) – 3:56
  3. "Betty And Dupree"
  4. "K. C. Moan"
  5. "Gambler's Blues"
  6. "John Henry"
  7. "How Long"

Personnel

  • Dave Van Ronk - guitar, vocals
  • David Gahr - photography

    • Songs

    1Duncan and Brady3:02
    2Black Mountain Blues4:02
    3In the Pines3:08

    References

    Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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