So, after a break of nearly a half year here's the next one of my Early Recordings series:

Early Recordings Vol. IV
And They Took Him Down To The Folk City

The main topic this time are all the performances at Gerdes Folk City and as bonus on disc two is the Finjan Club performance, which fit well as also beeing a club performance. Of course again all recordings are remastered and not available elswhere in this quality.

size: 489mb
off-master CDr of the remastered files->EAC->*.wav->FLAC fronted->*.flac


disc one: [00:55:41]
1)  San Francisco Bay Blues (J. Fuller)
2)  The Great Devide (W. Guthrie)
3)  Ranger's Command (W. Guthrie)
4)  Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance (B. Dylan/H. Thomas)
5)  Talking New York
6)  Corrina, Corrina (Trad. arr.)
7)  Deep Ellum Blues (Trad. arr. J. & B. Attlesay)
8)  Blowin' In The Wind
9)  Lonesome River Edge (R. Stanley)
10) Back Door Blues (Trad.)
11) Bob Dylan's Dream
12) You Can Get Her (?)
13) Farewell
14) All Over You
15) Masters Of War
16) Instrumental
17) Keep Your Hands off Her (Leadbelly)
18) Honey Baby (?)
19) Going Back To Rome (Trad.)
20) Stealin' (Trad.)

disc two: [00:56:53]
1)  Hiram Hubbard (Trad. arr.)
2)  Blowin' In The Wind
3)  Rocks And Gravel (Trad. arr.)
4)  Quit Down Your Low Down Way
5)  Instrumental
6)  He Was A Friend Of Mine (Trad. arr.)
7)  Let Me Die In My Footsteps
8)  Two Trains Runnin' (M. Morganfield)
9)  Ramblin' On My Mind (R. Johnson)
10) Blues Yodel #8 (Muleskinner Blues) (J. Rodgers/G. Vaughan)
11) The Death Of Emmett Till
12) Stealin' (Trad.)


disc one tracks 1-2: New York City, Gerdes Folk City, probably Sept. 26 1961 (second set). Part of a two weeks recidency at Gerdes Folk City (first day).
disc one track 3: New York City, probably Gerdes Folk City, Sept. 29 1961 (after a large research it's more probably that this track is from Gerdes Folk City and not from the Cynthia Gooding Appartement Tape).
disc one tracks 4-8: New York City, Gerdes Folk City, probably April 16 1962
disc one tracks 9-20: New York City, probably basement of Gerdes Folk City, Feb. 08 1963
disc two tracks 1-12: Montreal, Canada, Finjan Club, July 02 1962

The '61 tracks from Gerdes Folk City are from a mediocre soundboard source. I made them clearer and removed most of the hiss, they're not too bad anymore.

The '62 recording from Gerdes Folk City is from a good soundboard source, but it hat a lot of vinyl-crackles and some tapehiss on it. I removed most of the crackels. You might judge the hiss-filter as over-used but I had to find an acceptable compromiss between leaving a lot if hiss there and destroying too much from the sound. It's at least definitely an improvement to what it was before.

The Banjo Tape wasn't too bad though there was some tapehiss. I removed most of it and it's now pretty good.

The Finjan Club performance was already near perfection and I hadn't much to do. I still cleared up the sound a little bit and removed the last rest of tapehiss. I also re-ordered the tracks, because one of the best chronologys had this trackorder here and listening to the recording one can clearly hear the tape-cut after Stealin'.


My original artwork is of course included.

Vol. V will follow ...