Name: Going Back to Brooklyn [Remaster]
Brand: Hightone
SKU: 33110
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Going Back to Brooklyn [Remaster]

Rating

Album: Going Back to Brooklyn [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Losers
2)	Blood Red Moon
3)	Honey Hair
4)	Head Inspector
5)	Luang Prabang
6)	Antelope Rag
7)	Tantric Mantra
8)	Gaslight Rag
9)	Last Call
10)	Garden State Stomp
11)	Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again
12)	Whores of San Pedro, The
13)	Left Bank Blues
14)	Another Time and Place

Album: Going Back to Brooklyn [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Losers
2)	Blood Red Moon
3)	Honey Hair
4)	Head Inspector
5)	Luang Prabang
6)	Antelope Rag
7)	Tantric Mantra
8)	Gaslight Rag
9)	Last Call
10)	Garden State Stomp
11)	Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again
12)	Whores of San Pedro, The
13)	Left Bank Blues
14)	Another Time and Place

Performer Notes

Personnel: Dave Van Ronk (vocals, guitar).
Engineers: Chuck Ellis, Alan Mattes, Bruce Bartone.
Recorded at The Barn, North Ferrisburg, Vermont. Includes liner notes by Rosalie Sorrels.
Personnel: Dave Van Ronk (vocals, guitar).
When Dave Van Ronk defined urban folk music in the late-'50s/early-'60s, songwriting wasn't much of an option; one sang the folk and blues standards of the time and tried to invest them with some originality. It wasn't until people like Bob Dylan and Eric Andersen came along that original material found its way into the folk boom. Thus, others wrote the majority of material in Van Ronk's esteemed catalogue.
On this 1991 recording, though, he looks back at his small-but-powerful cache of original songs written over the course of his long career. Though some of the songs were written many years earlier, the older Van Ronk invests them with an added level of emotion and subtlety. From the humorous existentialism of "Losers" to the ominous, surreal blues "Head Inspector," Van Ronk proves as talented at composition as he is at performance--no small task.

Professional Reviews

Mojo (Publisher) (p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Sometimes tender, sometimes bawdy, frequently hilarious but always honest, Van Ronk was the very embodiment of the best in American folk."