A Chrestomathy

A Chrestomathy

Infobox Album |
Name = A Chrestomathy
Type = compilation album
Artist = Dave Van Ronk


Released = 1992
Recorded = 1960-1991
Genre = Folk
Length =
Label = Gazell
Producer = Dave Van Ronk
Reviews = * Allmusic no review [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpfoxq8gldje link]
Last album = "The Folkways Years, 1959 - 1961"
(1991)
This album = "A Chrestomathy"
(1992)
Next album = "To All My Friends in Far-Flung Places"
(1994)

"A Chrestomathy" is a retrospective two-CD compilation of songs by Dave Van Ronk released in 1992.

Van Ronk recorded for many record labels. This compilation was released by Gazell Records.

Track listing

Disc 1

#"Tell Old Bill" (Traditional) – 4:24
#"Cocaine Blues" ( [Luke Jordan) – 4:19
#"Motherless Children" (Traditional) – 3:51
#"Poor Lazarus" (Traditional) – 5:11
#"Mr Noah" (Traditional) – 1:32
#"Come Back Baby" (Traditional) – 3:52
#"If I Had to Do It All Over Again" (Bob Dylan) – 3:34
#"Kentucky Moonshiner" (Traditional) – 2:40
#"Fair and Tender Ladies" (Traditional) – 5:42
#"Alley Oop" (Frazier, Kaverin) – 3:39
#"Chelsea Morning" (Joni Mitchell) – 2:37
#"Clouds" (Mitchell) – 4:38
#"Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:37
#"Dink's Song" (Traditional) – 3:34

Disc 2

#"Romping Through the Swamp" (Stampfel) – 1:59
#"My Little Grass Shack" (Cogswell, Harrison, Nobel) – 3:39
#"You's a Viper" – 2:35
#"Temptation Rag" (Lodge) – 3:10
#"Stealin'" (Shade) – 3:15
#"John Hurt" (Paxton) – 3:14
#"Sunday Street" (Van Ronk) – 3:29
#"The Entertainer" (Scott Joplin) – 4:57
#"Candy Man " (Davis) – 3:05
#"Teddy Bear's Picnic" (Bratton, Kennedy) – 3:07
#"Mack the Knife" (Brecht, Weill) – 2:36
#"Tango Ballad" (Bratton, Kennedy) – 4:44
#"Losers" (Van Ronk) – 3:14
#"Garden State Stomp " (Van Ronk) – 3:33
#"Two Sleepy People" (Carmichael, Frank Loesser) – 3:38
#"The Fresno Shuffle" (Frandsen) – 2:47


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