Review: Time-Life Folk Years Collection

Subject: Review: Time-Life Folk years Collection
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 12:32 AM

I just recieved this as a gift from my husband and while I really don't think it's a good representation of "the Folk years" I am enjoying it very much, especially the Tim Hardin songs.

If you aren't familiar with this collection, it's a digitially remastered selection of 8 CDs thematically grouped into double cds titled as:

Blowin' in the Wind
Yesterday's Gone
Reason To believe
Simple Song of Freedom

The double Cds attempt to capture the theme with their selections.

The collection was advertised heavily on late night televison for a couple of years but is being phased out and will soon be unavailable. It was purchased at a close-out price for me.

I'll post the selction list a little later.

Does anyone else have this collection?

keep in mind - I'm a little younger than most Mudcatters (not much though). I was born in 1964, so this is more the music of my childhood than of my political awakening.

Subject: RE: Review: Time-Life Folk years Collection
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 12:54 AM

Link to THE FOLK YEARS track listings

I figured this might be better than copying and pasting it all.

It cost the person who bought it about $75 aftewr discount codes. I'm enjoying listening to it very much.

It just hit me after hearing The ban'd rendition of "the long Black veil" that the line about the narrator being with another man's wife might be a reference to joe Hill's infamous non-alibi alibi in his murder tiral. Like the narrator, he refused to name the lady and was executed. No doubt this is discussed in seventeen different Long Black Veil threads, right? (forgive me for thinking I had an original thought!)

Subject: RE: Review: Time-Life Folk Years Collection
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 02:39 AM

Well, we've certainly had discussions of Long Black Veil, but I don't recall anybody tying it to Joe Hill. I have part of the Folk Years collection, and I really like it. It might not be satisfying to some purists, but this is the music that introduced me to folk music - and at my age, it makes me all sappy and nostalgic.
Besides, these are songs I know all the words to. Can't say the same for the songs I've tried to learn recently....
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Review: Time-Life Folk Years Collection
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 02:46 AM

guess what I found in another Long Black viel Thread? Evidence that my Joe hill theory ain't exactly original! LOL




Subject: RE: The Story Behind The Long Black Veil
From: McGrath of Harlow - PM
Date: 05 May 02 - 02:33 PM

It seems pretty clear he's protecting the lady. And maybe also they are both trying to avoid hurting the husband/best friend.

I've sometimes thought of starting a rumour that it's all about Joe Hill, who was said to have an alibi which he didn't use because it would have meant betraying a lady. (Though in the witch-hunt atmosphere of the time it probably wouldn't have saved him anyway, even if he'd had a dozen alibis. There are modern day analogies to that as well.)