In the Tradition
Download links and information about In the Tradition by Dave Van Ronk, The Red Onion Jazz Band. This album was released in 1963 and it belongs to Jazz, Songwriter/Lyricist genres. It contains 12 tracks with total duration of 43:01 minutes.
Artist: | Dave Van Ronk, The Red Onion Jazz Band |
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Release date: | 1963 |
Genre: | Jazz, Songwriter/Lyricist |
Tracks: | 12 |
Duration: | 43:01 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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1. | Cake Walking Babies From Home (feat. The Red Onion Jazz Band) | 2:56 |
2. | Ace In the Hole (feat. The Red Onion Jazz Band) | 2:50 |
3. | St. Louis Tickle | 3:24 |
4. | Death Letter Blues | 4:46 |
5. | If I Had To Do It All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You (feat. The Red Onion Jazz Band) | 3:31 |
6. | Whoa Back Buck | 3:37 |
7. | Sister Kate (feat. The Red Onion Jazz Band) | 3:01 |
8. | Kansas City Blues | 2:07 |
9. | Green Rocky Road | 3:36 |
10. | See See Rider (feat. The Red Onion Jazz Band) | 5:16 |
11. | Rocks and Gravel | 4:25 |
12. | Hesitation Blues (feat. The Red Onion Jazz Band) | 3:32 |
Details
[Edit]In the Tradition was a little strange for an early Dave Van Ronk LP, with the album split evenly between tracks on which the singer is backed by the Dixieland jazz-style combo the Red Onions and by more customary acoustic folk-blues solo guitar. Both of those styles were part of his persona, though it's the more somber acoustic folk-blues that stand out more. It's a reasonably strong album, not too much different from much of the rest of his catalog, other than in the balanced mixture between jazz and folk approaches. Of the trad jazz cuts, the item that might attract the most collector interest is the jaunty "All Over You," which is certainly one of the most obscure (and atypical) early Bob Dylan covers; Dylan would never release his own version, though a demo he did of the tune in 1963 has appeared on bootlegs. It's not much of a song, but its basic joie de vivre fits in well with the jazz segment of this program, on which Van Ronk's gravelly vocals credibly echo (especially for a white singer) the spirit of early New Orleans jazz vocalists like Louis Armstrong. Among the acoustic numbers are "Green, Green Rocky Road" and "Rocks and Gravel," both of which would be recorded by several other major talents of the '60s folk scene. The entire album is contained on the Fantasy CD reissue Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk, which also contains all but two songs from an album he recorded in 1981, Your Basic Dave Van Ronk.