1. Scots Piping - Bruce Martin
2. Walk A While - Fairport Convention
3. Green, Green Rocky Road - Dave Van Ronk
4. If I Had My Way - Rev. Gary Davis
5. Open Up Them Pearly Gates - Doc & Merle Watson
6. Kokomo Blues - Bonnie Raitt
7. Talkin' Fishin' Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
8. Did You Hear John Hurt? - Tom Paxton
9. Ain't No Tellin' (Make Me A Pallet) - Mississippi John Hurt
10. Irish Danc Medley - De Dannan
11. Here's To Cheshire, Here's To Cheese - Pete Seeger
12. The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Bonnie Dobson
13. Panama Limited - Tom Rush
14. City Of New Orleans - Steve Goodman
15. Sharon - David Bromberg Band
16. Farewell Toast/Boatman - Mike Cross
17. These Are The Days - Michael Cooney
18. Hoedown - Mad Pudding
19. No Love Today - Chris Smither
20. Watchin' The River Go By - John Hartford
21. Sensitive New Age Guys - Christine Lavin
22. Wild Goose Chase - Roger Sprung
23. Hit Or Miss - Odetta
24. Society's Child - Janis Ian
25. Hello In There - John Prine
26. From A Distance - Nanci Griffith
27. Georgia State Patrol/Deep Gap Salute - Gamble Rogers
28. I'm Alright - Loudon Wainwright III
29. When I'm Gone - Mollie O'Brien
30. Ciorcirlia - Harmonia
31. People My Age - John Gorka
32. Le Jig Francais - Beausoleil
33. Going Up - Great Big Sea
34. My Father's House - Eric Bibb
35. Tanglewood Tree - Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
36. My Heart in Rio - Oscar Lopez
37. Old Dominion - Eddie From Ohio
38. Ode To A Butterfly - Nickel Creek
39. Cakewalk Into Town - Taj Mahal
40. Simple Gearle - Stacey Earle
41. Rawhide - Ricky Skaggs Band
42. This Town Is Wrong - Katryna & Nerissa Nields
43. Minnie The Moocher - Moxy Fruvous
44. Olympic Reel - Natalie MacMaster Band
45. Golden Apples Of The Sun - Judy Collins
46. Bee's Wing - Richard Thompson
47. St. Mary Of Regrets - Susan Werner
48. Alturas - Inti Illimani
49. You Jacobites By Name - Tempest
50. Beg To Differ - Patty Larkin
51. Ring-Around-A-Rosie Rag - Arlo Guthrie
52. Darcy Farrow - Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen
53. I Ain't Marchin anymore - Phil Ochs
54. Devil's Dream/Sailor's Hornpipe - Bill Keith & Jim Rooney
55. I Blinked Once - Steve Forbert
56. El Pajarillo - Irene Farrara
57. Drag Queens In Limousines - Mary Gauthier
58. Goodnight Irene - Steve Goodman
Amazon.com
Naturally, this remarkable four-disc set celebrates 40 years of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, but it also serves as a compelling and diverse history of modern folk music itself. The performances included here run the whole gamut of the genre: from early-1960s recordings by authentic purveyors of traditional blues and country such as Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, and Doc Watson, to urban revivalists like Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Pete Seeger, to protest folkies such as Phil Ochs, to confessional singer-songwriters, folk-rockers, pristine-voiced divas, bluegrass pickers, Celtic, Eastern European, and Latino preservationists, and everything in between. Among the many highlights of this 58-track set are a solo blues by young Bonnie Raitt from 1970, Odetta's passionate 1977 reading of her self-penned "Hit or Miss," the Ricky Skaggs band tearing through a fiery instrumental in 1996, Richard Thompson's emotional 1996 solo performance of "Bee's Wing," Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen harmonizing exquisitely in 1996, and a stunning 1962 banjo display from Bill Keith. Younger artists like bluegrassers Nickel Creek, biting songwriter Mary Gauthier, and rousing Eastern European dance band Harmonia seem ready to carry the torch. --Marc Greilsamer
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Philadelphia Folk Festival - 40th Anniversary
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2001-10-02)
- Publisher: Sliced Bread Records
- Label: Sliced Bread Records
- Format: Box set, Enhanced, Live
- Studio: Sliced Bread Records
- Average Customer Review:
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- Sales Rank in Music: #209980
Avg. Customer Review:
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Summary: Fabulous 2005-09-16
Comment: I love this album because it brought back memories of my attending the Festival. It's a great way to discover a lot of new (and old) people such as John Prine, Mollie O'Brien, Richard Thompson, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and so many others. I realize that space was at a premium but I'm sorry Judy Roderick (who was a wonderful blues singer and very big in Philly) and the Greenbriar boys were left out. John Prine's Hello, in There and Richard Thompson's Beeswing are wonderful. In fact, the latter version is more haunting (if it's possible) than the recorded version and the song never fails to make me cry. Thompson is brilliant.
Even if you've never attended the Festival, it is worth getting for the joyous music on it.
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Philadelphia Folk Festival - 40th Anniversary
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