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A Chrestomathy is a retrospective two-CD compilation of songs by Dave Van Ronk released in 1992. Its liner notes explain the title: "CHRES-TO-MA-THY: a selection of choice passages. WHICH MEANS THIS IS A SELECTION OF CHOICE WORKS FROM MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS OF DAVE'S MUSIC ON RECORDS." Van Ronk recorded for many record labels. This ...
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Dave Van Ronk chronology. Hummin' to Myself. (1990) The Folkways Years, 1959–1961. (1991) A Chrestomathy. (1992) The Folkways Years, 1959–1961 is a compilation album of songs by Dave Van Ronk released in 1991.
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Van Ronk was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a family that was "mostly Irish, despite the Dutch '[[Van (Dutch)|Van]' name". He moved from Brooklyn to Queens around 1945 and began attending Holy Child Jesus Catholic School, whose students were mainly of Irish descent. He had been performing in a barbershop quartet since 1949, but left before fin...
On February 10, 2002, Dave Van Ronk died in a New York hospital of cardiopulmonary failure while undergoing postoperative treatment for colon cancer.
Van Ronk was an irreverent guitar artist and interpreter of Black blues and folk, with an uncannily precise gift for impersonation. Joni Mitchell said that his rendition of her song "Both Sides Now" (which he called "Clouds") was her favorite version of the song. His guitar work, for which he credits Tom Paley as fingerpicking teacher, is noteworth...
Van Ronk refused for many years to fly and never learned to drive (he took trains or buses or, when possible, recruited a girlfriend or young musician as his driver), and he declined to ever move from Greenwich Village for any extended period of time (having stayed in California for a short time in the 1960s). Van Ronk's trademark stoneware jug of ...
Studio albums
1. 1959: Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues, and a Spiritual (also released as Gambler's Blues and Black Mountain Blues) (Folkways) 2. 1961: Dave Van Ronk Sings (also released as Dave Van Ronk Sings the Blues and Dave Van Ronk Sings Earthy Ballads and Blues) (Folkways) 3. 1962: Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger(Prestige) 4. 1963: In the Tradition(Prestige) 5. 1964: Inside Dave Van Ronk(Prestige) 6. 1964: Dave Van Ronk and the Ragtime Jug Stompers(Mercury) 7. 1964: Just Dave Van Ronk(Mercury) 8. 1966: No D...
Live
1. 1982: Your Basic Dave Van Ronk 2. 1983: St James Infirmary (released in 1996 as Statesboro Blues) 3. 1983: Dave Van Ronk in Rome 4. 1997: Live at Sir George Williams University(recorded in 1967) 5. 2004: Dave Van Ronk: ...and the tin pan bended and the story ended...(Smithsonian Folkways) 6. 2008: On Air(1993) 7. 2014: Live in Monterey(recorded in 1998) 8. 2015: Hear Me Howl: Live 1964(recorded Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana, October 20, 1964)
Compilation albums
1. 1972: Van Ronk (includes Folksinger and Inside Dave Van Ronk in their entirety. Later released on CD as Inside Dave Van RonkLP reissued in 2013) 2. 1988: Hesitation Blues 3. 1989: Inside Dave Van Ronk 4. 1991: The Folkways Years, 1959 - 1961(Smithsonian Folkways) 5. 1992: A Chrestomathy 6. 2002: Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk (includes all of In the Tradition and most of Your Basic Dave Van Ronk) 7. 2012: Bluesmaster (includes all of Sings Ballads, Blues and a Spiritual and selections from Dav...
Van Ronk was author of a posthumous memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street (2005) written with Elijah Wald. Anecdotes from the book were used as a source for the film Inside Llewyn Davis. Van Ronk and Richard Ellington collected and edited The Bosses' Songbook: Songs to Stifle the Flames of Discontent, Second Edition – A Collection of Modern Politic...
Dave Walsh (May 7, 1998). "A Conversation with Dave Van Ronk". World Socialist Web Site. Archived from the originalon October 19, 1999.Stefan Wirz. Illustrated Dave Van Ronk discographyA Chrestomathy, a Compilation of songs by Dave Van Ronk. Released in 1992 on Gazell (catalog no. GPCD 2007/8; CD). Genres: Contemporary Folk.
Juni 1936 in Brooklyn; † 10. Februar 2002 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Gitarrist, Sänger und Songschreiber. Er war eine treibende Kraft des Folk - und Blues -Revivals der 1960er Jahre und förderte u. a. Bob Dylan und Joni Mitchell . Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben und Wirken. 2 Literatur. 3 Weblinks. 4 Einzelnachweise. Leben und Wirken.
