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Sunday Street
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0018964103620
Label: Philo Records
Manufacturer: Philo Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Philo Records
Release Date: January 26, 1999
Studio: Philo Records
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Editorial Review:
No matter how good the music shop is, you can't buy the instrument that Dave Van Ronk plays. It's a voice. Van Ronk has what you might call a vintage throat, a rare antique that has collected every story that has passed his way in decades of folk singing. It is a scratched, raw voice--memorable, exciting, and suffused with the weight of experience. In this 1976 reissue, Van Ronk uses a simple acoustic-guitar-and-voice dynamic to sketch out the wisdom and world-weariness he found in traditional tunes such as "Jesus Met the Woman at the Well" and "Down South Blues." His ragtime guitar renditions of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" and Jelly Roll Morton's "The Pearls" are brilliant reappraisals of enduring songs. His cover of Joni Mitchell's "That Song About the Midway" slowly courses through the labyrinth of a sad, wrecked life. This is a striking album, balanced with dark blues and sly humor. --Lois Maffeo
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Greenwich Village's "Mayor" Of Folk And Blues
Dave Van Ronk was a gifted acoustic guitar player and musicologist, with a vocal style that reminds me of the song title "From A Whisper To A Scream". He would often begin quietly, and as a song progressed he'd build in intensity until it ended in a full roar. In concert, this was riveting theater - and, one suspects - a good way to get an audience's attention right from the start. It worked.
His voice was a marvel of gravel and grit, not unlike early Tom Waits. In fact, it took me ... Read More
Rating: - Van Ronk's Masterpiece
For someone as incredibly talented as Dave Van Ronk, calling this album his masterpiece is saying a lot. Van Ronk is one of those rare singers with an unmistakably unique voice - he reminds me a little of Tom Waits with a slightly more refined singing voice - and his guitar playing has got to be one of the most underrated in the business. His take on Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is my favorite interpretation of this ragtime classic. He takes the tempo on this instrumental tune a bit slower and makes ... Read More
Rating: - Greatness personified
From a time when music had words and the words had meaning. Dave Von Ronk was one of the great folk singers of all time. His voice is unique and his words are truth. Where are the truth tellers when we need them??????
Rating: - Van Ronk's masterpiece
One of the heroes of the New York and American folk revival, Dave Van Ronk is a supremely gifted singer and guitarist who was there to bridge the first revival (Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly) and the second (the one that produced Bob Dylan and transformed popular music) and who shows no sign of slowing down. Mediocre Van Ronk recordings are not exactly nonexistent, but they are rare. Sunday Street, finally available on CD after more than three decades, is surely not one of them. It may be his masterpiece, ... Read More
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