Songs for Ageing Children

Studio album by Dave Van Ronk

Released

1973

Cadet
CA-50044

Michael Brovsky

Dave Van Ronk chronology

Van Ronk
(1969)

Songs for Ageing Children
(1973)

Sunday Street
(1976)

Songs for Ageing Children (sub-titled Let The Feeling Talk To You) is an album by American folk and blues performer Dave Van Ronk, released in 1973.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Allmusic stated in their review "This is a varied set, as if Van Ronk were trying to cover a lot of bases against the chance that he might not get another opportunity to record again soon."^[2]

Track listing

Side one

"Duncan & Brady" (Traditional) – 3:48
"Green Rocky Road" (Len Chandler) – 4:08
"As You Make Your Bed" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 4:21
"Teddy Bears' Picnic" ( John Walter Bratton, Jimmy Kennedy) – 2:22
"Song for Joni" (Dave Van Ronk) – 2:02

Side two

"Work with Me Annie" (Hank Ballard) – 2:30
"River" (Joni Mitchell) – 2:45
"My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii" (Bill Cogswell, Tommy Harrison, Johnny Noble) – 3:35
"Sail Away" (Randy Newman) – 2:54
"Candy Man" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 2:43
"Last Call" (Van Ronk) – 3:07

Personnel

Produced by Michael Brovsky for GRT Corporation. A Free Flow Production in association with Dave Van Ronk

Arrangements – Dave Van Ronk & Barry Kornfeld
Engineer – Martin Nyles Lennard
Recorded & Remixed at Advantage Studios, New York
Album Graphics & Design – Jon Shaheen-Yellow Studio
Woodcut – Luke Faust

References

↑ Dave Van Ronk discography.
1 2 Ruhlman, William. "Songs for Ageing Children > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved February 18, 2015.

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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