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John Jacob Niles
Evening With John Jacob Niles: The Tradition Years
Genres: Folk, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. The Carol Of The Birds
2. Jack O?Diamonds
3. The Turtle Dove
4. I?m In The Notion Now
5. Sing We The Virgin Mary
6. Lulle Lullay
7. The Black Dress
8. The Cuckoo
9. O Waly, O Waly
10. When I Gets Up Into Heaven
11. The Frog In The Spring
12. The Seven Joys Of Mary
13. The Roving Gambler
14. You Got To Cross That Lonesome Valley

CD Details

All Artists: John Jacob Niles
Title: Evening With John Jacob Niles: The Tradition Years
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Empire Musicwerks
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 5/23/2006
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Folk, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Traditional Folk, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 654545083228

Synopsis

Album Description

As seen in the recent Martin Scorcese directed Bob Dylan documentary "No Direction Home", John Jacob Niles was a major influence and key progenitor of the 1950?s folk resurgence in America. Historian, musicologist, performance artist ? Niles was one of the first American folk artists to take traditional material and completely make it his own, years before a young Bob Dylan started channeling Woody Guthrie. Today the late, great John Jacob Niles is admired by a new generation of folk enthusiasts and will no doubt inspire generations to come. "An Evening With John Jacob Niles" was originally released in 1959 and was Niles second album for the Tradition label. Our first Niles release, "I Wonder As I Wander" has received numerous accolades from the music press and the many folk enthusiasts who purchased the CD. Like our previous Niles release, to the delight of folk fans everywhere, "An Evening With" appears for the first time on CD.

CD Reviews

From Another Sweet World

R. J MOSS | Alice Springs, Australia | 09/22/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If the Scorcesee documentary did nothing else(and it did!)than unlock the vaults on Niles, it would have been satisfying. However, we have now more than ample offerings from this exquisite genius of the Folk idiom. He was no lad when these recordings were made but the voice is the thing to savour here, apart from the idiosyncratic flavour he brings to several well know songs. Surely, if Bob found him inspirational, Tim Buckley and Hamilton Camp would also have accessed Niles giddy tenor soprano as it soars almost unbelievably out of range. The other, almost forgotten link in this chain to the 1960s is Berl Ives, who was along with Pete Seeger & The Kingston Trio, the only thing that even hinted at 'folk' on my end of the radio.And let's not forget the cat-cutted howling of the inimitable Tiny Tim, whose Xmas carol interpretations bled through the airwaves, again, this festive seaon.Thanks to Tradition Records and John Juniors son for making this material available. And to that bowerbird affiacando of Folk Blues, Mr Martin S."