Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk is a compilation album by American

United States

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 folksinger Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk

Dave Van Ronk was an American folk singer, born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York, and was eventually nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street" ....

, released in 2002. It includes the complete 1963 LP

LP album

The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

, In the Tradition

In the Tradition (Dave Van Ronk album)

In the Tradition is a 1964 album by American folksinger Dave Van Ronk and The Red Onion Jazz Band. It is unusual in the fact that the tracks are evenly split between Van Ronk and the Red Onions....

and all of 1982’s Your Basic Dave Van Ronk

Your Basic Dave Van Ronk

Your Basic Dave Van Ronk is an album by American folk and blues singer Dave Van Ronk, released in 1982.Your Basic Dave Van Ronk was recorded in one single night session in London in 1981. It is out-of-print but was re-released along with In the Tradition in 2002 by Fantasy Records as Two Sides of...

except for "In the Midnight Hour" and "Stagolee".

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger is a US author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.-Life and writing:Having worked as a DJ at WXPN in Philadelphia, he started reviewing records for Op magazine in 1983...

 wrote of the album " Van Ronk's powers as an excellent folk-blues interpreter were fully intact, and it did include two original Van Ronk compositions in "Sunday Street" and "Gaslight Rag," the latter an homage to the famed Gaslight club in Greenwich Village."

Track listing

1. "Cake Walkin' Babies From Home" (Smith, Troy, Williams) – 2:59
2. "Ace in the Hole" (Dempsey, Mitchell) – 2:53
3. "St. Louis Tickle" (Barney, Seymour) – 3:25
4. "Death Letter Blues" (Traditional) – 4:48
5. "All Over You" (Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
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   ) – 3:33
6. "Whoa Back Buck" (Huddie Ledbetter, Alan Lomax
   Alan Lomax
   Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
   
   ) – 3:39
7. "Sister Kate" (Piron) – 3:04
8. "Kansas City Blues" (Jackson) – 2:10
9. "Green, Green Rocky Road" (Chandler, Kaufman) – 3:39
10. "See See Rider" (Rainey) – 5:18
11. "Rocks and Gravel" (Traditional) – 4:27
12. "Hesitation Blues" (Traditional) – 3:32
13. "God Bless the Child
    God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song)
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    " (Herzog, Holiday) – 4:25
14. "Sunday Street" (Van Ronk) – 3:20
15. "Sportin' Life" (Brownie McGhee
    Brownie McGhee
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    ) – 4:56
16. "Cocaine" (Reverend Gary Davis
    Reverend Gary Davis
    Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, was an American blues and gospel singer and guitarist, who was also proficient on the banjo and harmonica...
    
    ) – 4:30
17. "St. James Infirmary" (Primrose, Traditional) – 5:00
18. "You've Been a Good Ole Wagon" (Henry) – 2:52
19. "Spike Driver Blues" (Hurt) – 4:15
20. "Gaslight Rag" (Van Ronk) – 2:13
21. "Candy Man" (Davis) – 3:04