High Flying Bird [Import]

Judy Henske//High Flying Bird [Import]

Track Listings

1. Low Down Alligator

2. Empty Bed Blues

3. Ballad Of Little Romy

4. Wade In The Water

5. Hooka Tooka

6. I Know You Rider

7. Lily Langtree

8. Lilac Wine

9. Love Henry

10. Every Night When The Sun Goes In

11. Salvation Army Song

12. High Flying Bird

13. Buckeye Jim

14. Till The Real Thing Comes Along

15. Oh You Engineer

16. Baltimore Oriole

17. Columbus Stockade

18. Blues Chase Up A Rabbit

19. Lonely Train

20. Duncan And Brady

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
UK reissue combines the folk-rock pioneer's first two albums for Elektra, 'Judy Henske' (1963) & 'High Flying Bird' (1964). Includes new liner notes & rarely seen photos. 2001.

Tracks:

High Flying Bird
Buckeye Jim
Till the Real Thing Comes Along
Oh, You Engineer
Baltimore Oriole
Columbus Stockade
Blues Chase Up a Rabbit
Lovely Train
Duncan and Brady
God Bless the Child
Good Old Wagon
You Are Not My First Love
Charlotte Town

Product Description

1. High Flying Bird
2. Buckeye Jim
3. Till The Real Thing Comes Along
4. Oh, You Engineer
5. Baltimore Oriole
6. Columbus Stockade
7. Blues Chase Up A Rabbit
8. Lonely Train
9. Duncan & Brady
10. God Bless The Child
11. Good Old Wagon
12. You Are Not My First Love
13. Charlotte Town

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Amazing.......2007-01-09

I had this album when I was in college and played it so much that it wore out. It has been a long time since I have heard Judy Henske but she did not disappoint. Her voice was as clear and strong as I remember from those many years ago.

A longer half-life than plutonium.......2006-06-07

This CD contains "Duncan and Brady," the first Judy Henske tune I ever heard. At the time, thirty-some years ago, I was sitting on a porch in the middle of Africa, and it nearly knocked me off. "God almighty, who is that?" I squawked, and my hostess serenely replied "Judy Henske. Don't you know about her?" No, I didn't, but I've made up for it since, by grabbing every Henske recording I could get my hands on. Miraculously, unlike much of the music of those bygone days, Henske's can still leave me as breathless now as it did then. Oh sure, the title cut "High Flying Bird" is everyone's favorite Henske folk classic, but give a listen to the sauntering "Blues Chase Up a Rabbit" or Henske's sultry reading of Hoagy Carmichael's "Baltimore Oriole" if you want to know what singing is really all about. Me, I'll listen to the whole CD a couple times through, and then go back for one more last shot of "Duncan and Brady" (a song about a murder in a saloon, sentimental old me). Listen to this CD once and you too will be a Henske addict for life.

Judy is GREAT...But Recording is Distorted.......2006-04-25

It is wonderful to again hear these almost-forgotten Blues/Folk tunes from the early days of Electra Records. Judy is quite a performer! BUT, I hear quite a bit of distortion on this CD. Perhaps I got a bad one, or perhaps this due to the age of the tapes that were used for the transfer to digital. Other CD re-releases by Collectors' Choice Music have been quite good. (see my other reviews)

The Real Thing.......2003-03-31

Judy's music opened up a part of my soul when I first heard it forty years ago, and rehearing it still sends the goosebumps up and down my spine. Judy's music is powerful, it's raw, it's full and deep... and best of all, there's humor in it. At 17, I went out and bought a kazoo straight away.

In retrospect, I'm not sure why it's categorized as "folk" music, except that it was the music that moved us at the same time as Baez, Dylan and Fred Neil and she played in coffee houses. To me, it's just great dirty blues.

Magic Judy Judy Judy.......2002-07-11

We've gone from a famine to a feast in terms of Judy Henske's back catalog. The import double album, containing Judy's two early 60s Elektra albums, was released a bit earlier than the Collector's Choice editions. That's a very attractive package, but for anyone who wants to start more modestly, this re-release of Judy's second album may be the place to begin. It's a bit less raucous than the eponymous first album, which is to say that it lacks the zany spoken intros of that record. It is also a bit sparer musically, a bit more characterisically folky.

I have known one or two people in fact, who were a little put off by the intros on the "Judy Henske" album. They were music purists and maybe a little humor impaired--but we need those folks in the world too. And they do have a point, the music DOES come first. "High Flying Bird" is the best available introduction to Judy Henske's MUSIC currently available. Of all the several recorded versions of the title song, none can compare to Judy's soulful interpretation. And that's just for openers. Judy Henske is one of those rare performers who can go from the ribald to the ethereal with ease, often within a single song. From the surreal lullabye "Buckeye Jim" to the barrelhouse sensibility of "Oh, You Engineer," she doesn't falter once on this classic album.

Once you've sampled HFB, you'll be almost certainly want to check out "Judy Henske" and the recent comeback album "Loose In the World." And there's more good news, Judy and her husband, keyboardist and producer extraoridinaire, Craig Doerge are hard at work on a new CD, hopefully set for a 2002 release date. Check her website (judyhenske.com, natch) for further updates. It's great to have this legendary performer back on the scene. And it's even better that her seminal early work is now available in CD format.

Judy Henske/High Flying Bird
Average customer rating:

"High Flying Bird" is "Loose in the World"

Henske at her best

The Super Voice is back!

Magic is real.

What took them so long???

Judy Henske/High Flying Bird
Judy Henske
Manufacturer: Wea/Elektra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005OKOP
Release Date: 2001-10-29

Tracks:

Low Down Alligator
Empty Bed Blues
Ballad of Little Romy
Wade in the Water
Hooka Tooka
I Know You Rider
Lily Langtree
Lilac Wine
Love Henry
Every Night When the Sun Goes In
Salvation Army Song
High Flying Bird
Buckeye Jim
Till the Real Thing Comes Along
Oh, You Engineer
Baltimore Oriole
Blues Chase Up a Rabbit
Lonely Train
Duncan and Brady
God Bless the Child
Good Old Wagon
You Are Not My First Love
Charlotte Town

Album Description

UK reissue combines the folk-rock pioneer's first two albums for Elektra, 'Judy Henske' (1963) & 'High Flying Bird' (1964). Includes new liner notes & rarely seen photos. 2001.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Coupling of Two Albums Recorded for Jac Holzman's Elektra Label in the Early 1960's.

Customer Reviews:

"High Flying Bird" is "Loose in the World".......2002-04-05

The release of this "two-fer" is a cause for celebration for Judy Henske fans everywhere. Visitors to Judy's fan site know how long fans have been campaigning to get these two classic albums on CD. Now at last, this British import has been made available, which while not as likely to get the promotion a domestic release might receive, certainly is preferable to the previous miserable state of affairs.

Judy Henske is an enormous talent and has always been a marketer's nightmare. She was eclectic to the point of being virtually unclassifiable in the early 60s folk boom. Unlike Joan Baez and Judy Collins and so many other women of the era, she sang with barrelhouse gusto and passion. Sure Collins or Baez might do the occasional gospel number, but always with a kind of stately reserve. Henske was much rootsier, attacking Bessie Smith numbers before Janis Joplin was out of high school and covering Billie Holiday tunes while Diana Ross was still cooing "Baby Love." And there are wags out there who insist that Bette Midler did nothing but steal Judy's act.

You'll never see Judy's releases in the blues section though (if you're lucky enough to find them in a record shop at all). She would follow up a blues standard with an olde Englishe murder ballad like "Love Henry" or a modern American folk-rock classic like "High Flying Bird." She was, as Dave Marsh has written, "beyond all categories except 'legendary' and 'great' "--a marketing problem as severe in the early 60s as it is today. She might have been better suited for the more eclectic and experimental later 60s, but by then, she was somewhat marginalized (although still recording--and making wonderful records--both as a solo act and with then-husband Jerry Yester).

But the two early Elektra albums have a special place in the hearts of Henske fanatics. "Judy Henske" is a splashy debut, replete with comedy monologues and with sassy horn arrangements. "High Flying Bird" is more classically folky with sparer instrumental backing and a less raucous atmosphere. Together they make for a superb introduction to a major talent of the era (well, of any era really). It may surprise you that someone so abundantly talented never got the recogniton she deserved...but hey, she's still alive and kicking and it's not too late. Check her out now!

If you sample this release and love it, be sure to get a hold of her recent comeback CD, "Loose In the World." I'm not sure if Judy's getting much in terms of royalties from the re-issues, but the independently released "Loose..." is all her baby and also deserves your attention and support.

Henske at her best.......2002-03-01

This is the one of her albums that I would consider essential. The title cut alone is worth the price. I've had a copy of this record on hand for about 38 years - the last one bought by auction in order to have it again. I think the import price is a bargain.
If you're not familiar with Judy Henske, you've missed out. Don't pass into the great unknown without hearing her -- especially "High Flyin' Bird" = the album and the song. Her version of 3:10 to Yuma is equally amazing.

The Super Voice is back!.......2002-02-26

Judy Henske, a small farmer's daughter (only 6'4") who fled from her southern Wisconsin youth, not only was one of the great legends of the 60s folk revival but simply is one of the greatest voices ever downside of the operatic stage. In one way, she was and is everything Janis Joplin would have become. In another, she's everything that Maria Muldaur is trying to be. And in still one more aspect, she does everything fort the blues, folk, cabaret and Moritat songs that Kirsten Flagstad or Birgit Nilsson did for Wagner's Brünnhilde. First and foremost, she's an original, a genuine rarity in any kind of music. Her singing flows from many legacies and still it is all her own, regardless of whether it began with Hoagy Carmichael, Bessie Smith or an unknown songwriter of a century past. This double CD re-release from 1963 and 1964 is simply not to be missed!

Magic is real........2001-12-20

If you're a reader of Andrew Vachss' novels then you're familiar with 'Magic Judy' as he calls her.
And for very good reason!
If, like me, you like to feel your heart soar, your spine tingle, your cheeks hurt from hard laughing, goosebumps on your body, and a deep feeling of joy and a banishing of the blues then get and listen to this music.
She is truly all that and more.

What took them so long???.......2001-11-02

I have loved Judy Henske and her music since I first heard her in the 60's. A friend played her album JUDY HENSKE for me and I was blown away. I had never heard a singer before that literally gave me chill bumps, but Judy did and I have been a fan ever since. These two albums are my favorites - they are what sold many people on Judy Henske and caused them to remain fans over the past thirty plus years. We have long awaited the re-release of these albums on CD - we begged and pleaded for someone to bring us Judy's music from the 60's on a CD and finally someone heard us. Andrew Vachss (the writer) in every one of his Burke novels refers to Judy Henske and calls her "Magic Judy". She is indeed magic. Her voice is like no other - deep, powerful, haunting. She is definitely one of a kind and I can guarantee that if you listen to her once, you will be hooked. I ordered two CD's - one for now and one to put in a safe place for the future. I don't ever want to be without Judy's music.