Generations Of Folk, Vol. 4: The Troubadors
Generations Of Folk, Vol. 4: The Troubadors
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The subtitle of volume 4 of Vanguard's Generations of Folk series is "The Troubadours," but here's an alternate suggestion: "Artists Who Didn't Fit on Any Other Anthology." This haphazardly compiled collection features the likes of Don McLean ("American Pie"), Cat Stevens ("Wild World"), Richie Havens ("Here Comes the Sun"), and Rick Nelson ("Garden Party"). Then there are middle-of-the-road types such as Stephen Bishop and Michael Johnson, the more left-field likes of Paul Kelly and Peter Case, and even a movie star (Keith Carradine) thrown in for good measure. The problem with this 12-track anthology is that there doesn't seem to be a unifying theme, unless guys with guitars qualifies. If you're dying to have several singer-songwriter hits on one disc, consider The Troubadours, but most folks are better advised to mosey on down the road and find themselves a more finely honed collection, such as one of Rhino's Troubadours of the Folk Era collections. --Steven Stolder
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The subtitle of volume 4 of Vanguard's Generations of Folk series is "The Troubadours," but here's an alternate suggestion: "Artists Who Didn't Fit on Any Other Anthology." This haphazardly compiled collection features the likes of Don McLean ("American Pie"), Cat Stevens ("Wild World"), Richie Havens ("Here Comes the Sun"), and Rick Nelson ("Garden Party"). Then there are middle-of-the-road types such as Stephen Bishop and Michael Johnson, the more left-field likes of Paul Kelly and Peter Case, and even a movie star (Keith Carradine) thrown in for good measure. The problem with this 12-track anthology is that there doesn't seem to be a unifying theme, unless guys with guitars qualifies. If you're dying to have several singer-songwriter hits on one disc, consider The Troubadours, but most folks are better advised to mosey on down the road and find themselves a more finely honed collection, such as one of Rhino's Troubadours of the Folk Era collections. --Steven StolderCustomer Reviews:
Not exactly the folk singers you think of as troubadors.......2004-01-27
Beyond those hits there are a lot of songs that I am not sure that I had ever heard before: Peter Case's "Let Me Fall," Joshua Kadison's "Beautiful in My Eyes," Micheal Johnson's "Bluer Than Blue," John Jennings' "Walking to China," and Paul Kelly's "Deeper Water." These are all decent songs, but when you suggest troubadors and the topic is folk music I immediately think of Woody Guthrie and then we are talking Pete Seeger. Nobody else on this collection would even have been included on my short list, so that tended to put these songs in a lesser light just for that reason. But this one also falls short on the standard test for song collections, which is that you can five songs you do not have worth the adding. The main reason to pick up this one is because you already have the other three volumes of the "Generations of Folk" series.
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