Fast Folk - A Community of Singers & Songwriters
Fast Folk - A Community of Singers & Songwriters
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Fast Folk Musical Magazine helped jumpstart the careers of musicians such as Shawn Colvin, Steve Forbert, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Christine Lavin, Richard Shindell, Suzanne Vega, and many others. This double CD set comprises honest, intimate versions of their songs, available in retail stores for the first time! Guided by the venerable Dave Van Ronk, singer-songwriter Jack Hardy formed Fast Folk in 1982 in New York City. The dominant theme in the 100-plus Fast Folk Musical Magazine issues was an emphasis on the song rather than the singer-- music for its own sake. It quickly became an important showcase for the new folk scene, which continued to flourish for nearly twenty years. By drawing on both the new wave and the old guard of American folk music, Fast Folk developed into a significant chapter in the history of folk music. Compiled and annotated by Richard Meyer, Jack Hardy and Jeff Place.
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ASIN: B00005Y1U2 Release Date: 2002-02-26 |
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Fast Folk Musical Magazine helped jumpstart the careers of musicians such as Shawn Colvin, Steve Forbert, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Christine Lavin, Richard Shindell, Suzanne Vega, and many others. This double CD set comprises honest, intimate versions of their songs, available in retail stores for the first time! Guided by the venerable Dave Van Ronk, singer-songwriter Jack Hardy formed Fast Folk in 1982 in New York City. The dominant theme in the 100-plus Fast Folk Musical Magazine issues was an emphasis on the song rather than the singer-- music for its own sake. It quickly became an important showcase for the new folk scene, which continued to flourish for nearly twenty years. By drawing on both the new wave and the old guard of American folk music, Fast Folk developed into a significant chapter in the history of folk music. Compiled and annotated by Richard Meyer, Jack Hardy and Jeff Place.Customer Reviews:
ESSENTIAL (and a good intro.to contempor.singer songwriters).......2002-04-01
I have many Fast Folk recordings, but not all of them and over the years I made my own collection of favorite songs, 4 cdr with 70 songs, and here I get this dbl cd, with 36 songs and none of them are in my own compilations! And still, I find these two cd's to be highly enjoyable. This set include great versions of favorite songs, like Shindell's Courrier, Forbert 10,000 men, Suzanne Vega's Gypsy, as well as songs never recorded for released records like Gorka's "Geza's Wailing ways", and too many names to quote them all.
I liked this set a lot, of course there are many songs I would have liked to see before some that are actually on the set, but I can surely agree with more than 30 songs here, out of 36,
and I think any lover of great songwriting will love this set. I hope many people will buy it so that they can release other sets and covert this small beginning into a series like the KGSR's, Mountain Stage, Rare On Air and others. There are tons of great songs in the FF vaults, too many to be ignored.
About the liner notes: they include three essays on the FF magazine, and a biography of
each artist, + a complete discography by each singer. Amazing! I would have liked to see
the lyrics too, but then a man shouldnt ask for too much...
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