Van Ronk Sings

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


Released = 1961
Recorded =
Genre = Folk
Length =
Label = Folkways (FA 2383)
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpfoxq8gldje link]
Last album = "Dave Van Ronk and the Ragtime Jug Stompers"
(1960)
This album = "Van Ronk Sings"
(1961)
Next album = "Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger"
(1963)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Cover
Type = album


Lower caption = Cover of the 1965 LP reissue as "Dave Van Ronk Sings the Blues".

"Van Ronk Sings" was an album by American folksinger Dave Van Ronk, released in 1961.

It was also released on LP as "Dave Van Ronk Sings the Blues" and "Dave Van Ronk Sings Earthy Ballads and Blues". All these versions are out of print, but most of the songs can be found on the 1991 Smithsonian Folkways CD release "The Folkways Years, 1959 - 1961" and "A Chrestomathy", released on CD in 1992. [ [http://www.wirz.de/music/vanrofrm.htm Dave Van Ronk discography.] ]

Track listing

ide one

#"Bed Bug Blues" – 2:43
#"Yas-Yas-Yas" (Traditional) – 2:05
#"See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" – 2:54
#"Tell Old Bill"
#"Georgie on the IRT" – 3:28
#"Hesitation Blues" (Davis) – 2:32
#"Hootchy Kootchy Man"
#"Sweet Substitute"

ide two

#"Dink's Song"
#"River Come Down" – 3:43
#"Just a Closer Walk With Thee Traditiona) – 3:00
#"Come Back Baby" (Davis) – 3:51
#"Spike Driver's Moan" – 3:11
#"Standing By My Window"
#"Willie the Weeper" (Bloom, Melrose, Rymal) – 2:47

Personnel

*Dave Van Ronk - guitar, vocals

References