Warner Music Pays Tribute To Greenwich Village In The 60s

Warner Music will release a 2-disc compilation documenting the music of Greenwich Village in the 60s. Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan was the central point of folk music in the early 60s. Bob Dylan’s famous ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ album cover was shot on Jones St near 4th Street near his home at the time in the Village.
In one of his Rolling Stone interviews John Lennon said, “I should have been born in New York, I should have been born in the Village, that’s where I belong.”

According to Warner Music, “Sub-titled “Beginnings and Branches of the New York Folk Revival”, Greenwich Village In The ‘60s takes a comprehensive look at the epicentre of the folk scene that impacted the world in the ‘60s and beyond. It features approximately 40 artists who either preceded or followed Bob Dylan, whose track ‘Talkin’ New York’ opens the collection. It covers similar ground to the new Coen Brothers film “Inside Llewyn Davis” and its T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack; indeed it features earlier versions of some of the material from the film”.

Greenwich Village In The 60s tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Bob Dylan – Talkin’ New York
2. Dave Van Ronk – Hang Me, Oh Hang Me
3. Tom Paxton – The Last Thing On My Mind
4. Eric Andersen – Close The Door Lightly When You Go
5. Paul Clayton – Green Rocky Road
6. Fred Neil – Little Bit Of Rain
7. Judy Henske – I Know You Rider
8. Tim Hardin – I Can’t Slow Down
9. Tom Rush – Urge For Going (Single Version)
10. Tim Buckley – Aren’t You The Girl
11. John Jacob Niles – Go ‘Way From My Window
12. Jean Ritchie – The Cuckoo
13. Irene and Ellen Kossoy (with Erik Darling) – Bowling Green
14. Joan Baez (w/ The Greenbriar Boys) – Banks Of The Ohio
15. Dian & The Greenbriar Boys – He Was A Friend
16. Richard Fariña – House Un-American Blues Activity Dream
17. Phil Ochs – I Ain’t Marching Anymore
18. Buffy Sainte-Marie – Universal Soldier
19. Liam Clancy – Patriot Game
20. The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem – Shoals of Herring
21. Mike Seeger – Fair And Tender Ladies
22. Pete Seeger – Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)

Disc 2
1. Bob Gibson – Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)
2. Hedy West – 500 Miles
3. Vince Martin & Fred Neil – Morning Dew
4. Karen Dalton – Blues On The Ceiling
5. Patrick Sky – Many A Mile
6. David Blue – The Street
7. Simon & Garfunkel – He Was My Brother
8. Ian & Sylvia – You Were On My Mind
9. Richard & Mimi Fariña – Bold Marauder
10. Joan Baez – The Death Of Queen Jane (Child No. 170)
11. Carolyn Hester – The House Of The Rising Sun
12. Odetta – Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
13. Mississippi John Hurt – Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
14. Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band – My Gal
15. Even Dozen Jug Band – Evolution Mama
16. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Roving Gambler
17. Cisco Houston – Deportees
18. Harry Belafonte – Midnight Special
19. Judy Collins – Farewell

Greenwich Village in the ‘60s: Beginnings and Branches of the New York Folk Revival is out on Festival Records through Warner Music Australia on February 7, 2014.

Source: Noise311