The New Christy Minstrels - The Definitive New Christy Minstrels torrent

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The New Christy Minstrels - The Definitive New Christy Minstrels (2CD)(1997)(FLAC)




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The New Christy Minstrels are an American folk music group founded by Randy Sparks in 1961. They recorded over 20 albums and had several hits, including \"Green, Green\", \"Saturday Night\", and \"Today\". Their 1962 debut album, Presenting The New Christy Minstrels won a Grammy Award and sat in the Billboard charts for two years.

The group were not taken seriously in folk circles in the 1960s, but they sold \"millions of records\" and were in demand at concerts and on television shows. They also launched the musical careers of several musicians, including Kenny Rogers, Gene Clark, Kim Carnes and Jerry Yester.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Christy_Minstrels









This two-disc set, containing 45 tracks with a running time of two hours, is the most thorough retrospective of the New Christy Minstrels. In assembling it, the compilers have looked beyond the group\'s two Top 20 hits, \"Green, Green\" and \"Today,\" to all six of their chart singles, including a couple, \"Saturday Night\" and \"Silly Ol\' Summertime,\" that didn\'t get onto their albums. Also included are four non-album B-sides, a couple of foreign singles sung in French and Italian, and the previously unreleased track \"Elijah Rock.\" Of course, the bulk of the material comes from ten of the 11 albums the group released between 1962 and 1965 (there\'s nothing from Merry Christmas), including six tracks each from their debut album The New Christy Minstrels, the gold-selling Ramblin\', and Land of Giants. Today, their only Top Ten LP, is underrepresented, and In Person, their live album, deserved more than three excerpts, but otherwise there is a good balance, and the selections are reasonable. Since Tom Pickles\' liner notes painstakingly detail the many personnel changes in the nine- or ten-member group, it\'s odd that the compilers have not presented the selections chronologically to make it easier for the listener to delineate the resulting alterations in the Christys\' sound, opting instead to mix up the tracks. Maybe that\'s because, as Pickles acknowledges, the group declined over time, and that would have been more apparent in such a sequencing. As it is, however, The Definitive New Christy Minstrels lives up to its name.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/definitive-new-christy-minstrels-r374937/review









Tracklist:

CD 1

01. The Old-Timer
02. Denver
03. Liza Lee
04. Three Wheels On My Wagon
05. Californio
06. Deep Blue Sea
07. Stormy
08. Song of the Pious Itinerant (Hallelujah! I’m A Bum)
09. The Cotton Pickers’ Song
10. This ‘Ol Riverboat
11. Oh! Shenando
12. Silly Ol’ Summertime
13. Mighty Mississippi
14. Joe Magarac
15. The Wheeler Dealers
16. Julianne
17. The Dying Convict
18. The Drinkin’ Gourd (The Muddy Road To Freedom)
19. Wagoneer’s Song (Land Of The Sacramento)
20. El Camino Real
21. The Far Side Of The Hill
22. Casey Jones
23. Ramblin’








Tracklist:

CD 2:

01. Green, Green
02. Miss Katy Cruel
03. I Know Where I’m Goin’
04. Natural Man
05. Saturday Night
06. Today
07. Lily Langtry
08. Jimmy Grove And Babara Ellen
09. Gotta Get A-Goin’
10. Elijah Rock (live)
11. Bella Ciao
12. Le Printemps Sur La Colline (The River)
13. Se Piangi, Se Ridi (If You Cry, If You Laugh)
14. Go, Lassie, Go
15. Chim Chim Cher-ee
16. Springtime
17. It’s Gonna Be Fine
18. Lark Day
19. Freedom
20. Mighty Big Ways
21. This Land Is Your Land
22. Last Farewell









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