Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual

Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues and a Spiritual

Studio album by Dave Van Ronk

Released

1959

Dave Van Ronk chronology

Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues and a Spiritual
(1959)

Dave Van Ronk and the Ragtime Jug Stompers
(1960)

Alternative Cover

Cover of the 1965 LP reissue as Gambler's Blues

Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues and a Spiritual is an album by American folksinger Dave Van Ronk, released in 1959.

It was also released on LP as Gambler's Blues and as Black Mountain Blues. All these releases are out of print. Some of the songs can be found on the 1991 Smithsonian Folkways CD release The Folkways Years, 1959 - 1961.^[1]

Track listing

Side one

"Duncan and Brady" – 3:00
"Black Mountain Blues" – 4:00
"In the Pines" – 3:04
"My Baby's So Sweet" – 2:32
"Twelve Gates to the City" – 3:12
"Winin' Boy Blues" – 2:35
"If You Leave Me Pretty Mama"

Side two

"Backwater Blues"
"Careless Love" (W.C. Handy, Martha E. Koenig, Spencer Williams) – 3:56
"Betty And Dupree"
"K. C. Moan"
"Gambler's Blues"
"John Henry"
"How Long"

Personnel

Dave Van Ronk - guitar, vocals
David Gahr - photography

References

↑ Dave Van Ronk discography.

Dave Van Ronk

Studio albums	Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual (1959) Dave Van Ronk and the Ragtime Jug Stompers (1960) Van Ronk Sings (1961) Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger (1962) In the Tradition (1963) Inside Dave Van Ronk (1964) Just Dave Van Ronk (1964) ‘’No Dirty Names (1966) ‘’Dave Van Ronk and the Hudson Dusters’’ (1967) ‘’Van Ronk’’ (1971) ‘’Songs for Ageing Children (1973) ‘’Sunday Street’’ (1976) ‘’Somebody Else, Not Me’’ (1980) ‘’Your Basic Dave Van Ronk’’ (1982) ‘’St. James Infirmary’’ (1983) ‘’Going Back to Brooklyn’’ (1985) ‘’Let No One Deceive You’’ (1990) ‘’Hummin’ to Myself’’ (1990) ‘’Peter and the Wolf’’ (1990) ‘’To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places’’ (1994) ‘’From... Another Time & Place’’ (1995) ‘’Sweet & Lowdown’’ (2001)

Live albums	"Dave Van Ronk in Rome" (1983) "Live at Sir George Williams University" (1997) ...and the tin pan bended and the story ended... (2004) ‘’On Air’’ (2008)

Compilations	‘’Van Ronk’’ (1972) ‘’Hesitation Blues’’ (1988) ‘’Inside Dave Van Ronk’’ (1989) ‘’The Folkways Years, 1959–1961’’ (1991) ‘’A Chrestomathy’’ (1992) ‘’Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk’’ (2002) ‘’The Mayor of MacDougal Street’’ (2005) ‘’Bluesmaster’’ (2012) ‘’Down in Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection’’ (2013)

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