Inside Dave Van Ronk is a compilation album by American

United States

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 folk and blues singer Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" ....

, originally released in 1972 on a double LP

LP album

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 called Van Ronk. It has subsequently been reissued on CD, the first reissue in 1989.

The songs in the compilation consist of the '60s Prestige albums Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger

Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger

Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger was a 1963 album by American folksinger Dave Van Ronk.-History:Folksinger was recorded in April 1962 during the same sessions that produced Inside Dave Van Ronk and that would all end up on the Fantasy Records 1989 CD release, Inside Dave Van Ronk...

and Inside Dave Van Ronk

Inside Dave Van Ronk

Inside Dave Van Ronk was a 1963 album by American folksinger Dave Van Ronk.Inside Dave Van Ronk was recorded in April 1962 during the same sessions that produced Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger and that would all end up on the Fantasy Records 1989 CD release, Inside Dave Van Ronk.-Track listing:#"House...

in their entirety.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger is a US author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.-Life and writing:Having worked as a DJ at WXPN in Philadelphia, he started reviewing records for Op magazine in 1983...

 wrote of the album "... this is certainly Van Ronk's most enduring work, and indeed one of the few relics of the early-'60s traditional folk boom that holds up well today... One of the few white folkies who could sing acoustic blues without embarrassment, Van Ronk was also an accomplished acoustic guitar picker; instrumentally and vocally, he brought an intensity to his covers that made the songs his own."

Track listing

Songs from Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger

1. "Samson and Delilah" (Traditional) – 2:35
2. "Cocaine Blues" (Luke Jordan
   Luke Jordan
   Luke Jordan was an American blues guitarist and vocalist of some renown in his local area of Lynchburg, Virginia....
   
   ) – 4:16
3. "You've Been a Good Old Wagon" (Henry) – 2:19
4. "Fixin' to Die" (White) – 2:52
5. "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" (Traditional) – 3:07
6. "Long John" (Traditional) – 2:08
7. "Chicken Is Nice" (Traditional) – 2:30
8. "He Was a Friend of Mine" (Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
   
   , Traditional) – 3:29
9. "Motherless Children" (Traditional) – 3:48
10. "Stackerlee" (Traditional) – 3:35
11. "Mr. Noah" (Traditional) – 1:26
12. "Come Back Baby" (Davis) – 3:49
13. "Poor Lazarus" (Traditional) – 5:08

    Songs from the original Inside Dave Van Ronk

14. "House Carpenter" (Traditional) – 3:30
15. "The Cruel Ship's Captain" (Traditional) – 1:55
16. "Sprig Of Thyme" (Traditional) – 2:35
17. "Talking Cancer Blues" (Rhodes) – 1:45
18. "I Buyed Me A Little Dog" (Traditional) – 3:59
19. "Lady Gay" (Traditional) – 3:40
20. "Fair And Tender Ladies" (Traditional) – 5:40
21. "Brian O'Lynne" (Traditional) – 1:15
22. "Shanty Man's Life" (Traditional) – 3:20
23. "Silver Dagger" (Traditional) – 2:20
24. "Kentucky Moonshiner" (Traditional) – 2:35
25. "He Never Came Back" (Traditional) – 2:10