Just Dave Van Ronk

Infobox Album |
Name = Just Dave Van Ronk
Type = studio album
Artist = Dave Van Ronk


Released = 1964
Recorded =
Genre = Folk
Length = 34:31
Label = Mercury
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:knftxq85ldse link]
Last album = "Inside Dave Van Ronk"
(1963)
This album = "Just Dave Van Ronk"
(1964)
Next album = "In the Tradition"
(1964)

"Just Dave Van Ronk" is a 1964 album by folk/blues singer Dave Van Ronk.

It is probably this arrangement of "House Of The Risin' Sun" that was developed by Dave Van Ronk that Bob Dylan — who was a close friend of Van Ronk's at the time — used on his 1962 debut album Bob Dylan. Van Ronk discusses this in Martin Scorsese's documentary "No Direction Home". In the interview, Van Ronk said that he was intending to record it at that time, and that Dylan copied his version of the song.

Track listing

#"Candy Man" (Gary Davis) – 2:29
#"Frankie's Blues" (Dave Van Ronk) – 4:36
#"Bad Dream Blues", (Dave Van Ronk) – 4:57
#"Pastures of Plenty" (Woody Guthrie) – 3:25
#"'Didn't it Rain" (Traditional) – 3:00
#"Wanderin'" (Sammy Kaye) – 2:33
#"God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) – 4:22
#"Blue Monday" (Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew) – 1:59
#"Baby, Let Me Lay It on You" (Gary Davis) – 1:35
#"The House of the Rising Sun" (Arr. Dave Van Ronk) – 5:35

Personnel

*Dave Van Ronk – vocals, guitar

Production notes

*Rudy Van Gelder – engineer