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John Jacob Niles
Ballads
Genres: Folk, Pop

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Bowie, Bowerie
2. Brothers Revenge
3. Jimmy Randal
4. The Murdered Brother
5. Bonny Farday
6. Old Bangum
7. The Cherry Tree
8. Lady Margot and Love Henry
9. Who's Goin' To Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?
10. Little Mattie Groves
11. Barb'ry Ellen
12. The Hangman
Track Listings (12) - Disc #2
1. The Shepherd's Daughter and The King
2. Fair John and The Seven Foresters
3. The Fency King and The English King
4. The Death of Queen Jane
5. Mary Hamilton
6. The Lady and The Gypsy
7. The Dreary Dream
8. The Good Old Man
9. The Unwilling Bride
10. The Old Woman and The Devil
11. The Weep-Willow Tree
12. John of Hazel Green

CD Details

All Artists: John Jacob Niles
Title: Ballads
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: ESSENTIAL MEDIA GRP
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 6/19/2007
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genres: Folk, Pop
Style: Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 894231101823

Synopsis

Album Description

John Jacob Niles was a major influence and key progenitor of the 1950's folk resurgence in America. Historian, musicologist, performance artist - Niles was one of the first American folk artists to take traditional material and completely make it his own. Today the late, great John Jacob Niles is admired by a new generation of folk enthusiasts and will no doubt inspire generations to come. "The Ballads of John Jacob Niles" appears for the first time on CD.

CD Reviews

Timeless...

Richard M. Caputo | Warren, New Jersey United States | 07/04/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first purchased this on LP format at Melody Records in NYC around 1975. I found it in the American Folk bin along with artists like Jean Ritchie, etc. It was long out of print. I was listening to the likes of the British folk-rock group Fairport Convention at that time. They were mining the treasures of musicologist James Child's Ballad Book. To be quite frank, I wasn't prepared for what came through my headphones that winter evening - I felt transported to another time, another place - far away from my Park Slope brownstone. Niles' voice, phrasing,enthusiasm - he "is" what he sings - with poetry or prose set to music - he became the timeless traveling minstrel carrying tales of love, longing, betrayal, spirituality, humor, terror, and then some. BEWARE - his music is an aquired taste - listen several times, get his "Ballad Book"( your local library may have it - you pay taxes, this is free!) - and explore - when you connect with this music it will forever become part of you as it is part of our cultural past. The tales themselves are ageless - the melodies beautiful."