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Formats and Editions
1. Stagger Lee
2. You've Been A Good Old Wagon
3. Rocks & Gravel
4. St. Louis Tickle
5. Buddy Bolden's Blues
6. He Was A Friend Of Mine
7. Yas Yas Yas
8. Candy Man
9. Motherless Children
10. Nobody Knows You When You Are Down And Out
11. You Ain't Such A Much
12. Green Rocky Road
13. Alabama Song
1. That'll Never Happen No More
2. God Bless The Child
3. Baby Let Me Follow You Down
4. Song Of The Wandering Aengus
5. Frankie & Johnny
6. Two Trains Running
7. Tell Old Bill
8. Mr. Noah
9. One Meatball
10. Cocaine Blues
11. St. James Infirmary
12. He Was A Friend Of Mine
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David Kenneth Ritz "Dave" Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 - February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street". He was an important figure in the acoustic folk revival of the 1960s. His work ranged from old English ballads to blues, gospel, rock, New Orleans jazz, and swing. He was also known for performing instrumental ragtime guitar music, especially his transcription of "St. Louis Tickle" and Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag". Van Ronk was a widely admired avuncular figure in "the Village", presiding over the coffeehouse folk culture and acting as a friend to many up-and-coming artists by inspiring, assisting, and promoting them. Folk performers whom he befriended include Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Guthrie Thomas, and Joni Mitchell. Bob Dylan recorded Van Ronk's arrangement of the traditional song "House of the Rising Sun" on Dylan's first album. A few years later the Animals had a No. 1 hit single with a rock version of the Van-Ronk arrangement of the song, [1] a hit which helped to inaugurate the folk-rock movement. Van Ronk received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in December 1997.
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