Various Artists - Friends of Old Time Music: Folk Arrival 1961-1965 (CD)

Details: From 1961 to 1965, New York city's trailblazing Friends of Old Time Music presented 14 concerts that brought dozens of legendary traditional musicians before city audiences for the first time, and helped spark the folk revival. Now, famed folk producer Peter K. Siegel, who personally recorded most of the concerts, has handpicked 55 tracks (53 unreleased!) from the original master tapes for this amazing 3-CD set. It's hard to appreciate just how monumental these shows were; here are the first concert appearances by Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb and Joseph Spence, as well as the triumphant returns of Dock Boggs and Mississippi John Hurt, both of whom had made influential recordings in the city 40 years earlier. A 60-page booklet puts it all in context. Other artists include Fred McDowell, the Stanley Brothers, Hobart Smith, the Greenbriar Boys, Bill Monroe and Maybelle Carter... what a treasure for folk and country fans!

Tracklist:

1. Doc and Arnold Watson - I'm Troubled
2. Dock Boggs - the Country Blues
3. Fred McDowell - Going Down to the River
4. Roscoe Holcomb - East Virginia Blues
5. Maybelle Carter - the Storms Are on the Ocean
6. The Stanley Brothers - the Dream of the Miner's Child
7. Hobart Smith - Soldiers Joy
8. Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues
9. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Live and Let Live
10. The Watson Family - Lonely Tombs
11. Jesse Fuller - Rockin' Boogie
12. Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson - Brown's Dream
13. Dock Boggs - Down South Blues
14. Sam McGee - Knoxville Blues
15. The Stanley Brothers - Have a Feast Here Tonight
16. John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Riley
17. Jesse Fuller - Buck and Wing
18. Arthur Smith - Hell Among the Yearlings
19. The Greenbriar Boys - Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
20. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - the Brakeman's Blues
21. Maybelle Carter - Foggy Mountain Top
22. Doc Watson - Hicks' Farewell
23. The New Lost City Ramblers - Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel
24. Fred McDowell - Write Me a Few of Your Lines
25. Joseph Spence - Bimini Gal
26. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Shady Grove
27. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Grey Eagle
28. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Walkin' the Dog
29. Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues
30. Doc and Arnold Watson - Short Life of Trouble
31. Roscoe Holcomb - John Henry
32. Stanley Thompson - Kneelin' Down Inside the Gate
33. McKinley Peebles - Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt
34. Maybelle Carter - Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow
35. The Stanley Brothers and Their Clinch Mountain Boys - Mansions for Me
36. Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Before This Time Another Year
37. Mississippi John Hurt - My Creole Belle
38. Jesse Fuller - "Guitar Lesson"
39. Jesse Fuller - Cincinnati Blues
40. Dock Boggs - Poor Boy in Jail
41. Maybelle Carter - He's Solid Gone
42. The Clarence Ashley Group - Maggie Walker Blues
43. Ed Young and Emma Ramsay - Chevrolet
44. Roscoe Holcomb - Rising Sun Blues
45. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Lord Build Me a Cabin in Glory
46. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie and Albert
47. The Stanley Brothers - Hard Times
48. Horton Barker - the Miller's Will
49. Clarence Ashley - the Coo Coo Bird
50. Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson - Double File
51. Annie Bird - the Wandering Boy
52. Jesse Fuller - Stranger Blues
53. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - I Saw the Light
54. Maybelle Carter - Sugar Hill
55. The Clarence Ashley Group - Amazing Grace