Garden of Joy/Jim Kweskin's America

Garden of Joy/Jim Kweskin's America

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. If You're a Viper

2. Minglewood

3. Garden of Joy

4. Circus Song

5. My Old Man

6. Kaloobafak (I'm Confessin' [That I Love You]

7. Sheik of Araby

8. When I Was a Cowboy (Western Plains)

9. Mood Indigo

10. I Ain't Gonna Marry

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Back in the Saddle

2. Sugar Babe

3. Okie from Muskogee

4. 99 Year Blues

5. Rambling Round Your City

6. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight

7. Stealin'

8. Old Rugged Cross

9. Dark as a Dungeon

10. Old Black Joe

Garden of Joy/Jim Kweskin's America,Jim Kweskin,Geoff & Maria Muldar,Collectables,Folk,Folk & Traditional,Folk Revival,Jug Band,Pop,Traditional Folk,United States of America

Average customer rating:

Schizophrenic Album

About Stumbling Upon:

a lesser known treasure

What a find!

What a welcome rediscovery!

Garden of Joy/Jim Kweskin's America
Jim Kweskin , and Geoff & Maria Muldar
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
Revival | Folk | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000B2WJTW
Release Date: 2005-11-15

Tracks:

If You're a Viper
Minglewood
Garden of Joy
Circus Song
My Old Man
Kaloobafak (I'm Confessin' [That I Love You]
Sheik of Araby
When I Was a Cowboy (Western Plains)
Mood Indigo
I Ain't Gonna Marry
Ella Speed
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You

Tracks:

Back in the Saddle
Sugar Babe
Okie from Muskogee
99 Year Blues
Rambling Round Your City
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
Stealin'
Old Rugged Cross
Dark as a Dungeon
Old Black Joe

Customer Reviews:

Schizophrenic Album.......2007-06-27

The two disks in this set are quite distinct. The first is vintage Jim Kweskin jug band music, but it is only 33 minutes long. Stingy. The second consists of 10 mostly well-known mostly sentimental songs sung soggily.

My rating is based on four stars for the first disk and zero stars for the second. I find it hard to relate the two glowing views posted above to the album that I heard.

About Stumbling Upon:.......2007-05-13

I was wanderin' around a store, looking at books, picking up one and another and looking at it, then doin' the same with DVDs, then went to the CD section and looked here and there at and for this and that. Saw lots I wanted. Then thought to check, yet again, for Kweskin Jug Band -- and this was there! Guess what I did -- go ahead, guess. OK, I'll tell ya: I jumped for joy!

I picked up the vinyl of "Garden of Joy" when it was released in circa August, 1967 (even though I'm still not tall enough to be over 18, so couldn't possibly have done that). Gad! it was like reading a favorite nosepaper headline to see it again. I did what's called "scarfed" it. Strangely, or not, I had never heard "America," though a friend of years, of years ago, had it. Strangely (more likely), I've still not heard it: that's how good "Garden of Joy" is. Fun. Aw-reet! If

you'se a viper you might even remember it. If not, then you'll dig "Kaloobafack" (also). That's Fritz doin' the talkin.

Why are you wastin' time reading this!? Buy it, slip it in, an' try to not dance -- but don't step on the tumatuhs!

a lesser known treasure.......2007-03-07

As a kid, a promo LP of Jim Kweskin's America fell upon me. It was not the accustomed, but it gradually struck a deep chord. Many of the songs as performed by Kweskin, Muldaur, Lyman and company have stayed in my mind through the decades even though I haven't heard them in ages (haven't had a working record player to play that LP). I just discovered the reissue and look forward to hearing them other than in the mind's ear. The tone of the America album is peculiar. There is a tongue-in-cheek quality to a number of the performances, yet it's clear that they love the music, too. I would recommend tracks but fully seven of ten make my first cut. This is fine and interesting music, much of it from America's interwar years (that is, WWI and WWII).

What a find!.......2006-03-23

Stumbling across this set was magical for a number of reasons. Every few months, I would check the internet music sites for a reissue of Kweskin's "America" and it never showed up until... Likewise, for years, I had been trying to remember where I first heard "Minglewood (Blues)" and "If You're a Viper". Ka-Ching! So many wishes granted in one package. Two sides of one of the most estoteric musicians of the sixties and both wonderful. Someone make a movie on the life of Gus Cannon and maybe we'll have a brief rebirth of jug band music up in here.

What a welcome rediscovery!.......2006-01-17

I'm referring to Jim Kweskin's America, which I had feared I would not hear again for many a year. My old lp and tapes are lost, and this is the first reissue I've seen. What deep healing music!

It's an odd repackaging. The old Jim Kweskin before the reborn man, quite a contrast to say the least. The old Jim sings on Garden of JOy, the new man on America.

I don't believe America is for the casual listener, unless he's ready for quite a deep transformation. "Are they all 'in the Spirit'?" my new wife asked me when I recently played it for the two of us. Afterwards she announced herself totally healed of a deep malaise she'd been suffering. I heard it anew myself. It always sounds different to me. Sometimes my thoughts will come crowding in and the "old-timey" music seems suddently far away, and I feel guilty. But I relax and open up again and it's as powerful as ever. It's the saddest, most joyful, far-ranging, profoundest music of America ever sung. Unbelievable that it hasn't reached a larger audience -- but then, maybe it has and people still don't know how to talk about it.

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