VA - Greatest Folksingers Of The `Sixties (Vanguard)

Not only was Maynard Solomon's Vanguard Records one of the major folk labels of the '60s (having the prescience to pick up Joan Baez early on, and then recording the cream of the singer/songwriters thereafter), it also had the rights to record and release material from the Newport Folk Festival, giving it access to several artists who were not signed to the label.

As a result, this double-packet compilation features songs by nearly every major folk figure of the decade, from the Weavers to José Feliciano, with Vanguard artists such as Buffy Sainte-Marie, Eric Andersen, and Odetta sharing space with Elektra's Phil Ochs and Judy Collins, and Columbia's Bob Dylan. 

Listen to this one record and you'll know what the '60s folk revival sounded like. ~ William Ruhlmann


Half of the 24 tracks were studio recordings, the other half were performances at the Newport Folk Festivals of the 60's

Tracks:

Studio Recordings:

1. You Were on My Mind - Ian & Sylvia
2. Now That the Buffalo's Gone - Buffy Sainte-Marie
3. Walk Right In - Rooftop Singers
4. East Virginia - Joan Baez
5. John Henry - Odetta
6. Pack up Your Sorrows - Richard & Mimi Fariña
7. There But For Fortune - Phil Ochs
8. Violets of Dawn - Eric Andersen
9. Sitting on Top of World - Doc Watson
10. Crazy Words, Crazy Tune - Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band
11. Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt
12. Erie Canal - The Weavers

Newport Folk Festivals:

13. Greenland Whale Fisheries - Judy Collins/Theodore Bikel
14. Well, Well, Well - Bob Gibson/Hamilton Camp
15. Rambling Boy - Tom Paxton
16. La Bamba - José Feliciano
17. Salty Dog Blues - Flatt & Scruggs
18. Blowin' in the Wind - Bob Dylan/Friends
19. I Wish I Had Answered - The Staple Singers
20. I Got It - The Chambers Brothers
21. Whistling Gypsy, The - Tommy Makem
22. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms - The New Lost City Ramblers
23. Paper of Pins - Oscar Brand/Jean Ritchie
24. East Virginia Blues - Pete Seeger


VA - Greatest Folksingers Of The `Sixties (Vanguard)
(320 kbps, cover art included)