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DAVE VAN RONK

with DAVE WOODS guitar, CHUCK ISRAELS bass, BARRY KORNFELD organ, 

TERRI VAN RONK & JOHN COURT scream

Guitarist, singer, songwriter, and native New Yorker Dave Van Ronk inspired, aided, and promoted 

the careers of numerous singer/songwriters who came up in the blues tradition. Most notable of the 

many musicians he helped over the years was Bob Dylan, whom Van Ronk got to know shortly after 

Dylan moved to New York in 1961 to pursue a life as a folk/blues singer. Van Ronk's recorded output 

was healthy, but he was never as prolific a songwriter as some of his friends from that era, 

like Dylan or Tom Paxton. Instead, Van Ronk's genius was derived from his flawless

 execution and rearranging of classic acoustic blues tunes

1966     LP     VERVE FOLKWAYS RECORDS      FT-3009    MONO

PRINTED IN U.S.A.   ORIGINAL PRESSING    PROMOTIONAL COPY

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LABEL: VERVE FOLKWAYS - WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: FT-3009 

Catalog on labels: FT-3009 A / FT-3009 B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): FT 3009   Side 1   MG394

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): FT 3009   Side 2   MG395

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tracklisting

Side 1: ONE MEATBALL - ONE OF THESE DAYS

SONG OF THE WANDERING AENGUS - KEEP IT CLEAN

ZEN KOANS GONNA RISE AGAIN - FREDDIE

Side 2: STATESBORO BLUES - MIDNIGHT HOUR BLUES

'BOUT A SPOONFUL - MEAN OLD WORLD - BLUES CHANTE

THE OLD MAN - ALABAMA SONG

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While this is certainly among the more obscure of Dave Van Ronk's early LPs (none of which were exactly big sellers), 

it's one of the better ones. It's not radically different from most of the folk-blues albums he made in his early career. 

But there's a little more variety to the arrangements and repertoire than usual, with just as much of Van Ronk's growling gruff 

voice as always. For one thing, it's not solely Van Ronk and his acoustic guitar; there's also some acoustic guitar by Dave Woods 

and, more surprisingly, bass by Chuck Israels, a member of the Bill Evans Trio for much of the '60s. Van Ronk's tendency 

toward hokey good-time vaudeville-ragtime is kept in check, resulting in a moodier and more varied outing than many 

others in his catalog. While many of the 13 tracks are the kinds of folk and blues standards you might expect in a 

Van Ronk set (like "One Meatball" and "Statesboro Blues"), there's also a pretty good five-minute cover of Brecht-Weill's 

"Alabama Song." Stranger is "Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again," featuring a ghostly organ by Barry Kornfeld. 

Van Ronk's jazz influence comes to the fore in covers of Mose Allison's "One of These Days" and a rambunctious interpretation 

of Dizzy Gillespie's "Blues Chante" that's about as close as Van Ronk comes to R&B on the LP. For collectors, 

though, the major alarm bells are rung by the plaintive if unexceptional "The Old Man." For it's an early Bob Dylan 

song that was never covered by anyone else, and made its first appearance on this album, though Van Ronk re-recorded

 it for subsequent releases many years later (Dylan's own version, an outtake from his first album, finally surfaced 

on The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3, where it was titled "Man on the Street"). And you've got to be aware of Dylan's 

authorial involvement beforehand to recognize the song as one of his works, since no writing credits 

are given for the tracks on the back cover (though they're on the inner label)...(AllMusic)