Name: Inside Dave Van Ronk
Brand: VAN RONK,DAVE
SKU: 121111
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Inside Dave Van Ronk

Rating

Album: Inside Dave Van Ronk
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Samson & Delilah	More Info...
2)	Cocaine Blues	More Info...
3)	You've Been A Good Old Wagon	More Info...
4)	Fixin' To Die	More Info...
5)	Hang Me, Oh Hang Me	More Info...
6)	Long John	More Info...
7)	Chicken Is Nice	More Info...
8)	He Was A Friend Of Mine	More Info...
9)	Motherless Child	More Info...
10)	Stackerlee	More Info...
11)	Mr. Noah	More Info...
12)	Come Back Baby	More Info...
13)	Poor Lazarus	More Info...
14)	House Carpenter	More Info...
15)	The Cruel Ship's Captain	More Info...
16)	Sprig Of Thyme	More Info...
17)	Talking Cancer Blues	More Info...
18)	I Buyed Me A Little Dog	More Info...
19)	Lady Gay	More Info...
20)	Fair And Tender Ladies	More Info...
21)	Brian O'Lynne	More Info...
22)	Shanty Man's Life	More Info...
23)	Silver Dagger	More Info...
24)	Kentucky Moonshiner	More Info...
25)	He Never Came Back	More Info...

Album: Inside Dave Van Ronk
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Samson & Delilah	More Info...
2)	Cocaine Blues	More Info...
3)	You've Been A Good Old Wagon	More Info...
4)	Fixin' To Die	More Info...
5)	Hang Me, Oh Hang Me	More Info...
6)	Long John	More Info...
7)	Chicken Is Nice	More Info...
8)	He Was A Friend Of Mine	More Info...
9)	Motherless Child	More Info...
10)	Stackerlee	More Info...
11)	Mr. Noah	More Info...
12)	Come Back Baby	More Info...
13)	Poor Lazarus	More Info...
14)	House Carpenter	More Info...
15)	The Cruel Ship's Captain	More Info...
16)	Sprig Of Thyme	More Info...
17)	Talking Cancer Blues	More Info...
18)	I Buyed Me A Little Dog	More Info...
19)	Lady Gay	More Info...
20)	Fair And Tender Ladies	More Info...
21)	Brian O'Lynne	More Info...
22)	Shanty Man's Life	More Info...
23)	Silver Dagger	More Info...
24)	Kentucky Moonshiner	More Info...
25)	He Never Came Back	More Info...

Performer Notes

2 LPs on 1 CD: FOLKSINGER (1962)/INSIDE DAVE VAN RONK (1962).
Solo performer: Dave Von Ronk (vocals, 6 & 12-string guitars, dulcimer, autoharp).
Recorded in April 1962. Includes liner notes by Ira Mayer.
Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
Personnel: Dave Van Ronk (vocals, guitar, 12-string guitar, banjo, dulcimer, harp, autoharp).
Liner Note Author: Ira Mayer.
Recording information: 1964.
Photographer: Don Schlitten.
Unknown Contributor Role: Dave Van Ronk.
Ten years after they were recorded together in April 1962 for the Folkore imprint of the independent jazz label Prestige Records, Dave Van Ronk's albums, Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger and Inside Dave Van Ronk, packaged together here as a two-fer LP by Fantasy Records (which has acquired Prestige), sound remarkably fresh. At the time, Van Ronk was something of an anomaly, since he was neither a smooth-singing commercial folksinger nor a singer/songwriter, but rather a performer steeped in folk-blues tradition, addressing the songs of progenitors like the Rev. Gary Davis in his own distinctive style. That may have meant that, as a sleeve note here puts it, "the full public acceptance he so convincingly deserves has somehow eluded him," but it also means he has turned out to be very influential, particularly on the wave of blues-rock artists who emerged in the late '60s. On these tracks, he revives songs from Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music like "House Carpenter," along with folk-blues standards such as "Samson & Delilah," "Cocaine Blues," and "Stackalee," accompanying himself primarily on his fingerpicked acoustic guitar, but also on dulcimer and autoharp on some of the Inside Dave Van Ronk selections. His gruff voice, which seemed so out of place in the early-`60s folk revival now seems more familiar in the wake of Joe Cocker and Rod Stewart, not to mention Bob Dylan, on whom he was also a major influence. (Dylan's own versions of some of these songs have appeared on bootlegs.) Thus, the Dave Van Ronk of the Prestige sessions (who is not all that different from the Dave Van Ronk who made his first two albums for Folkways or the Dave Van Ronk of 1972) sounds even more impressive after a decade than he did the first time around. ~ William Ruhlmann