Exciting New Folk Chorus In Person

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2 LPs on 1 CD: PRESENTING THE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS (1962)/THE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS IN PERSON (1962). Originally released on Columbia. The New Christy Minstrels took ensemble folk music to its logical conclusion. Many vocal groups utilized three or four participants, allowing for multiple lead singers and smooth harmony. The New Christy Minstrels consisted of 14 players, creating something akin to a choral group capable of handling complex arrangements of overlapping male/female harmonies. Presenting captures the group's youthful, happy sound in all its glory, with upbeat versions of "This Land Is Your Land" and "Oh! Shenando." While jaunty folk fare like "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" prove a comfortable fit for the group's cheerful harmonies, pieces like "The Cotton Picker's Song" seem ill-chosen. Anyone vaguely familiar with songs associated with Leadbelly will wonder what a group of vibrant middle-class white kids know about picking cotton or sleeping in the pines all night. In Person presents the band in a live setting, and amazingly, they handle the multiple vocal parts with the same aplomb as their studio work. In "The Dying Convict," three singers open the song and are then joined by a soulful, swelling chorus. Even then, the Minstrels continue to develop the song with new harmonies and spoken monologues against a spare instrumental background. The group also shows off a lighter side on fun folk fare like "(The Story Of) The Preacher and the Bear" and "Susan Jane." Presenting/In Person represent the epitome of popular folk music during the early '60s, and represent the New Christy Minstrels at their most sprightly. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.

PRESENTING: THE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS - EXCITING NEW FOLK CHORUS
1. THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
2. DEEP BLUE SEA
3. DON'T CRY SUZANNE
4. THE COTTON PICKERS' SONG
5. THAT BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN
6. OH! SHENANDO
7. WHISTLE
8. RAILROAD BILL
9. CALIFORNIO
10. I KNOW WHERE I'M GOIN'
11. SPRINGFIELD FAIR
12. IN THE PINES
13. WELLINBROOK WELL
14. NINE HUNDRED MILES

THE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS IN PERSON
15. DENVER
16. (The Story of) THE PREACHER AND THE BEAR
17. LIZA LEE
18. THE DYING CONVICT
19. THE INVALIDS
20. FIRE
21. LOUISIANA LOU
22. YOU KNOW MY NAME
23. GOLDEN BELLS
24. BITS AND PIECES
25. HISTORICAL CHATTER ON CAPITOL PUNISHMENT
26. PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF SOMETHING UNIQUE IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
27. TEMPERANCE AND THE GUTTER SET
28. COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC HAS A MESSAGE
29. TIP TOE THRU THE TULIPS WITH ME
30. SAINTS' TRAIN