Down in Washington Square : the Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Locations
Call Number: CD Folk Van Down
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Folk Van Down	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Folk Van Down	2-week checkout	Due 04-26-2024

Folk, blues, jazz, and popular songs.
In part originally released by Folkways, with previously unreleased tracks.
Program and biographical notes by Jeff Place, essay by Van Ronk's widow Andrea Vuocolo, and selected discography and bibliography (39 pages : illustrations) inserted in container.
Duncan and Brady (3:02) -- River come down (Bamboo) (3:47) -- Spike driver blues (3:17) -- John Henry (2:28) -- Backwater blues (3:04) -- K.C. moan (3:04) -- Haul on the bowline (1:21) -- Just a closer walk with thee (3:04) -- Gambler's blues (2:30) -- Sweet substitute (2:36) -- Bed bug blues (2:46) -- Winin' boy (2:38) -- Georgie and the IRT (3:35) -- Betty and Dupree (3:37) -- Come back, baby (3:55) -- My baby's so sweet (2:35) -- Black mountain blues (4:02) -- Ya-yas-yas (2:09) -- Wille the weeper (3:01) -- Dink's song (3:46) -- Santy Anno (1:45) -- Leave her, Johnny (1:30) -- Tell old Bill (4:24) -- Careless love (2:59) -- Standing by my window (5:00) -- Please see my grave is kept clean (2:56) -- Had more money (previously unreleased) (2:57) -- If you leave me, pretty mama (3:09) -- Hesitation blues (2:36) -- In the pines (3:08) -- Oh, what a beautiful city (3:15) -- Mean old Frisco (previously unreleased) (3:16) -- Stackalee (previously unreleased) (2:34) -- How long (3:56) -- Ain't no grave can hold my body down (previously unreleased) (4:54) -- House of the Rising Sun (previously unreleased) (6:03) -- Hootchie kootchie man (3:16) -- Reckless blues (previously unreleased) (2:30) -- Trouble in mind (previously unreleased) (3:48) -- Oh Lord, search my heart (previously unreleased) (1:32) -- God bless the child (previously unreleased) (3:18) -- Losers (3:18) -- Another time and place (4:31) -- Garden State stomp (3:00) -- Motherless children (3:12) -- Don't you leave me here (I'm Alabama bound) (previously unreleased) (4:35) -- Spike driver blues (6:56) -- Down South blues (previously unreleased) (5:03) -- St. James Infirmary (Gambler's blues) (previously unreleased) (4:41) -- Ace in the hole (previously unreleased) (3:27) -- Going down slow (previously unreleased) -- Buckets of rain (previously unreleased) (3:52) -- Jelly jelly (previously unreleased) (2:58) -- Sometime (Whatcha gonna do) (previously unreleased) (2:38).
Dave Van Ronk, vocals, guitar.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A great collection submitted by kencza on June 15, 2021, 9:40pm Almost anything you would ever want to hear from folk/blues legend Van Ronk is on this 3 disc collection, and it includes a booklet about his story, associates, the origins of his songs, playing in Washington Park, and his status in Greenwich Village as "the Mayor of McDougal St."
Some of my favorites are "Duncan and Brady", "Willie the Weeper", "Tell Old Bill", "Hesitation Blues", "Spike Driver Blues", "How Long", and many more. He covered songs by John Hurt, Bessie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, Brownie McGhee, Willie Dixon and a fella that crashed on his couch for awhile after arriving in New York City Mr. Bob Dylan.