Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Scots Piping - Bruce Martin
2. Walk A While - Fairport Convention
3. Green, Green Rocky Road - Dave Van Ronk
4. If I Had My Way - Rev. Gary Davis
5. Open Up Them Pearly Gates - Doc & Merle Watson
6. Kokomo Blues - Bonnie Raitt
7. Talkin' Fishin' Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
8. Did You Hear John Hurt? - Tom Paxton
9. Ain't No Tellin' (Make Me A Pallet) - Mississippi John Hurt
10. Irish Danc Medley - De Dannan
11. Here's To Cheshire, Here's To Cheese - Pete Seeger
12. The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Bonnie Dobson
13. Panama Limited - Tom Rush
14. City Of New Orleans - Steve Goodman
15. Sharon - David Bromberg Band
16. Farewell Toast/Boatman - Mike Cross

Disc 2:

1. These Are The Days - Michael Cooney
2. Hoedown - Mad Pudding
3. No Love Today - Chris Smither
4. Watchin' The River Go By - John Hartford
5. Sensitive New Age Guys - Christine Lavin
6. Wild Goose Chase - Roger Sprung
7. Hit Or Miss - Odetta
8. Society's Child - Janis Ian
9. Hello In There - John Prine
10. From A Distance - Nanci Griffith
11. Georgia State Patrol/Deep Gap Salute - Gamble Rogers
12. I'm Alright - Loudon Wainwright III
13. When I'm Gone - Mollie O'Brien
14. Ciorcirlia - Harmonia
15. People My Age - John Gorka
16. Le Jig Francais - Beausoleil

Disc 3:

1. Going Up - Great Big Sea
2. My Father's House - Eric Bibb
3. Tanglewood Tree - Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
4. My Heart in Rio - Oscar Lopez
5. Old Dominion - Eddie From Ohio
6. Ode To A Butterfly - Nickel Creek
7. Cakewalk Into Town - Taj Mahal
8. Simple Gearle - Stacey Earle
9. Rawhide - Ricky Skaggs Band
10. This Town Is Wrong - Katryna & Nerissa Nields
11. Minnie The Moocher - Moxy Fruvous
12. Olympic Reel - Natalie MacMaster Band
13. Golden Apples Of The Sun - Judy Collins
14. Bee's Wing - Richard Thompson
15. St. Mary Of Regrets - Susan Werner
16. Alturas - Inti Illimani
17. You Jacobites By Name - Tempest

Disc 4:

1. Beg To Differ - Patty Larkin
2. Ring-Around-A-Rosie Rag - Arlo Guthrie
3. Darcy Farrow - Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen
4. I Ain't Marchin anymore - Phil Ochs
5. Devil's Dream/Sailor's Hornpipe - Bill Keith & Jim Rooney
6. I Blinked Once - Steve Forbert
7. El Pajarillo - Irene Farrara
8. Drag Queens In Limousines - Mary Gauthier
9. Goodnight Irene - Steve Goodman

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #303939 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-02
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Enhanced, Live

Amazon.com
Naturally, this remarkable four-disc set celebrates 40 years of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, but it also serves as a compelling and diverse history of modern folk music itself. The performances included here run the whole gamut of the genre: from early-1960s recordings by authentic purveyors of traditional blues and country such as Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, and Doc Watson, to urban revivalists like Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Pete Seeger, to protest folkies such as Phil Ochs, to confessional singer-songwriters, folk-rockers, pristine-voiced divas, bluegrass pickers, Celtic, Eastern European, and Latino preservationists, and everything in between. Among the many highlights of this 58-track set are a solo blues by young Bonnie Raitt from 1970, Odetta's passionate 1977 reading of her self-penned "Hit or Miss," the Ricky Skaggs band tearing through a fiery instrumental in 1996, Richard Thompson's emotional 1996 solo performance of "Bee's Wing," Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen harmonizing exquisitely in 1996, and a stunning 1962 banjo display from Bill Keith. Younger artists like bluegrassers Nickel Creek, biting songwriter Mary Gauthier, and rousing Eastern European dance band Harmonia seem ready to carry the torch. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

Fabulous
I love this album because it brought back memories of my attending the Festival. It's a great way to discover a lot of new (and old) people such as John Prine, Mollie O'Brien, Richard Thompson, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and so many others. I realize that space was at a premium but I'm sorry Judy Roderick (who was a wonderful blues singer and very big in Philly) and the Greenbriar boys were left out. John Prine's Hello, in There and Richard Thompson's Beeswing are wonderful. In fact, the latter version is more haunting (if it's possible) than the recorded version and the song never fails to make me cry. Thompson is brilliant.

Even if you've never attended the Festival, it is worth getting for the joyous music on it.