The New Christy Minstrels - The Definitive New Christy Minstrels

Music : Folk : Lossless The New Christy Minstrels - The Definitive New Christy Minstrels (2CD)(1997)(FLAC) *** Full HQ Artwork Scans Included *** The New Christy Minstrels are an American folk music group founded by Randy Sparks in 1961. They recorded over 20 albums and had several hits, including "Green, Green", "Saturday Night", and "Today". Their 1962 debut album, Presenting The New Christy Minstrels won a Grammy Award and sat in the Billboard charts for two years. The group were not taken seriously in folk circles in the 1960s, but they sold "millions of records" and were in demand at concerts and on television shows. They also launched the musical careers of several musicians, including Kenny Rogers, Gene Clark, Kim Carnes and Jerry Yester. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Christy_Minstrels This two-disc set, containing 45 tracks with a running time of two hours, is the most thorough retrospective of the New Christy Minstrels. In assembling it, the compilers have looked beyond the group's two Top 20 hits, "Green, Green" and "Today," to all six of their chart singles, including a couple, "Saturday Night" and "Silly Ol' Summertime," that didn't get onto their albums. Also included are four non-album B-sides, a couple of foreign singles sung in French and Italian, and the previously unreleased track "Elijah Rock." Of course, the bulk of the material comes from ten of the 11 albums the group released between 1962 and 1965 (there's nothing from Merry Christmas), including six tracks each from their debut album The New Christy Minstrels, the gold-selling Ramblin', and Land of Giants. Today, their only Top Ten LP, is underrepresented, and In Person, their live album, deserved more than three excerpts, but otherwise there is a good balance, and the selections are reasonable. Since Tom Pickles' liner notes painstakingly detail the many personnel changes in the nine- or ten-member group, it's odd that the compilers have not presented the selections chronologically to make it easier for the listener to delineate the resulting alterations in the Christys' sound, opting instead to mix up the tracks. Maybe that's because, as Pickles acknowledges, the group declined over time, and that would have been more apparent in such a sequencing. As it is, however, The Definitive New Christy Minstrels lives up to its name. http://www.allmusic.com/album/definitive-new-christy-minstrels-r374937/review Tracklist: CD 1 01. The Old-Timer 02. Denver 03. Liza Lee 04. Three Wheels On My Wagon 05. Californio 06. Deep Blue Sea 07. Stormy 08. Song of the Pious Itinerant (Hallelujah! I’m A Bum) 09. The Cotton Pickers’ Song 10. This ‘Ol Riverboat 11. Oh! Shenando 12. Silly Ol’ Summertime 13. Mighty Mississippi 14. Joe Magarac 15. The Wheeler Dealers 16. Julianne 17. The Dying Convict 18. The Drinkin’ Gourd (The Muddy Road To Freedom) 19. Wagoneer’s Song (Land Of The Sacramento) 20. El Camino Real 21. The Far Side Of The Hill 22. Casey Jones 23. Ramblin’ Tracklist: CD 2: 01. Green, Green 02. Miss Katy Cruel 03. I Know Where I’m Goin’ 04. Natural Man 05. Saturday Night 06. Today 07. Lily Langtry 08. Jimmy Grove And Babara Ellen 09. Gotta Get A-Goin’ 10. Elijah Rock (live) 11. Bella Ciao 12. Le Printemps Sur La Colline (The River) 13. Se Piangi, Se Ridi (If You Cry, If You Laugh) 14. Go, Lassie, Go 15. Chim Chim Cher-ee 16. Springtime 17. It’s Gonna Be Fine 18. Lark Day 19. Freedom 20. Mighty Big Ways 21. This Land Is Your Land 22. Last Farewell ENJOY & AS ALWAYS: REMEMBER TO KEEP SEEDING FOR OTHERS!!! THANKS!!

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