Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual

by Dave Van Ronk

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Uncompahgre Records RYM: 3.56 from 78 ratings; #135 album of 1959

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1.	Duncan and Brady 03:02	buy track
2.	Black Mountain Blues 04:02	buy track
3.	In the Pines 03:08	buy track
4.	My Baby's So Sweet 02:35	buy track
5.	Twelve Gates to the City 03:15	buy track
6.	Winin' Boy 02:38	buy track
7.	If You Leave Me Pretty Momma 03:08	buy track
8.	Backwater Blues 03:04	buy track
9.	Careless Love 02:59	buy track
10.	Betty and Dupree 03:37	buy track
11.	K.C. Moan 03:03	buy track
12.	Gambler's Blues 02:30	buy track
13.	John Henry 02:28	buy track
14.	How Long 03:56	buy track

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Dubbed “The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” Dave Van Ronk (1936–2002) was an iconoclastic folksinger and an influential figure in the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Because of his interest in African American folk music and blues, and his gift (or curse) of a gravelly baritone voice, Van Ronk was often criticized for his approach to his musical repertoire. His rejoinder was that he reserved the right to sing songs in the style that he deemed to be “the right way.” This 1959 Folkways recording, his first on any label, is a collection of 19th- and early 20th-century traditional folk and blues songs that persuasively illustrates his stance.

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released January 1, 1959

2019 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1959 Folkways Records

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