Friends Of Old Time Music: Folk Arrival 1961-1965 Friends Of Old Time Music: Folk Arrival 1961-1965 CD

From 1961 to 1965, New York city's trailblazing Friends of Old Time Music presented 14 concerts that brought dozens of legendary traditional musicians before city audiences for the first time, and helped spark the folk revival. Now, famed folk producer Peter K. Siegel, who personally recorded most of the concerts, has handpicked 55 tracks (53 unreleased!) from the original master tapes for this amazing 3-CD set. It's hard to appreciate just how monumental these shows were; here are the first concert appearances by Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb and Joseph Spence, as well as the triumphant returns of Dock Boggs and Mississippi John Hurt, both of whom had made influential recordings in the city 40 years earlier. A 60-page booklet puts it all in context. Other artists include Fred McDowell, the Stanley Brothers, Hobart Smith, the Greenbriar Boys, Bill Monroe and Maybelle Carter... what a treasure for folk and country fans!

1. Doc and Arnold Watson - I'm Troubled 2. Dock Boggs - the Country Blues 3. Fred McDowell - Going Down to the River 4. Roscoe Holcomb - East Virginia Blues 5. Maybelle Carter - the Storms Are on the Ocean 6. The Stanley Brothers - the Dream of the Miner's Child 7. Hobart Smith - Soldiers Joy 8. Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues 9. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Live and Let Live 10. The Watson Family - Lonely Tombs 11. Jesse Fuller - Rockin' Boogie 12. Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson - Brown's Dream 13. Dock Boggs - Down South Blues 14. Sam McGee - Knoxville Blues 15. The Stanley Brothers - Have a Feast Here Tonight 16. John Davis and the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Riley 17. Jesse Fuller - Buck and Wing 18. Arthur Smith - Hell Among the Yearlings 19. The Greenbriar Boys - Amelia Earhart's Last Flight 20. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - the Brakeman's Blues 21. Maybelle Carter - Foggy Mountain Top 22. Doc Watson - Hicks' Farewell 23. The New Lost City Ramblers - Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel 24. Fred McDowell - Write Me a Few of Your Lines 25. Joseph Spence - Bimini Gal 26. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Shady Grove 27. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Grey Eagle 28. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Walkin' the Dog 29. Jesse Fuller - San Francisco Bay Blues 30. Doc and Arnold Watson - Short Life of Trouble 31. Roscoe Holcomb - John Henry 32. Stanley Thompson - Kneelin' Down Inside the Gate 33. McKinley Peebles - Tell Me Why You Like Roosevelt 34. Maybelle Carter - Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow 35. The Stanley Brothers and Their Clinch Mountain Boys - Mansions for Me 36. Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Before This Time Another Year 37. Mississippi John Hurt - My Creole Belle 38. Jesse Fuller - "Guitar Lesson" 39. Jesse Fuller - Cincinnati Blues 40. Dock Boggs - Poor Boy in Jail 41. Maybelle Carter - He's Solid Gone 42. The Clarence Ashley Group - Maggie Walker Blues 43. Ed Young and Emma Ramsay - Chevrolet 44. Roscoe Holcomb - Rising Sun Blues 45. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - Lord, Build Me a Cabin in Glory 46. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie and Albert 47. The Stanley Brothers - Hard Times 48. Horton Barker - the Miller's Will 49. Clarence Ashley - the Coo Coo Bird 50. Gaither Carlton and Doc Watson - Double File 51. Annie Bird - the Wandering Boy 52. Jesse Fuller - Stranger Blues 53. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - I Saw the Light 54. Maybelle Carter - Sugar Hill 55. The Clarence Ashley Group - Amazing Grace