Various Artists Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village Vol 2.

Release Date: 04/16/2016
Format: LP
Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl
Release type:  Vinyl LP Release

In early 1961, a 19 year old Bob Dylan, having dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year, travelled to New York City, ostensibly to visit his idol Woody Guthrie, hospitalised with Huntingdons Disease. He headed straight for Greenwich Village, by then the epicentre of the folk music revival that Dylan was hoping to become a part of. In his recent autobiography Chronicles he writes; Greenwich was full of full of folk clubs and bars and those of us who played them all played the old timey folk songs, rural blues and dance tunes. This is volume 2 of a 2 part vinyl set that represents the scene he discovered, the sounds he found Blowin In The Wind and the artists who were already playing the clubs and bars of the Village upon his arrival. Released for Record Store Day, 2016.

1. Leadbelly– New York
2. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott– Cocaine Blues
3. Theodore Bikel– Buffalo Boy
4. The Clancy Brothers– The Parting Glass
5. Kenneth Patchen– State Of The Nation
6. Bukka White– Fixin’ To Die
7. Big Joe Williams– Baby Please Don’t Go
8. Lonnie Johnson – You Will Need Me
9. The Kossoy Sisters– The Wagoner’s Lad
10. John Jacob Niles– Go ‘Way From My Window
11. Roosevelt Sykes– Driving Wheel
12. Jack Kerouac– On The Road
13. Joan Baez– Silver Dagger
14. Bob Gibson– Wayfaring Stranger
15. Jean Ritchie– Nottamum Town
16. Rev. Gary Davis– Death Don’t Have Mercy
17. Josh White– In My Time Of Dying
18. The Staple Singers– Uncloudy Day
19. Harry Belafonte– Rocks And Gravel
20. Lightnin’ Hopkins– Mojo Hand
21. Kingston Trio– New York Girls
22. Buffy Sainte-Marie– Little Wheel Spin And Spin
23. Tom Paxton– Ramblin’ Boy
24. The Greenbriar Boys– Roll On Buddy
25. Peter, Paul & Mary– If I Had A Hammer