Carolyn Hester CD: Dear Companion (2-CD)

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2-CD with 52-page booklet, 60 tracks. Playing time approx. 159 mns. Though later overshadowed...more

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Carolyn Hester: Dear Companion (2-CD)

2-CD with 52-page booklet, 60 tracks. Playing time approx. 159 mns.

Though later overshadowed in the folk diva sweepstakes by Baez and Collins, Texas-born Carolyn Hester preceded both with her 1958 debut album and, judging from this two-CD, 60-song collection of Hester's complete 1961-67 Columbia recordings (plus 9 from 1965 for Dot), may have been the most interesting of the era's folk ladies. Bob Dylan was her harmonica player on a 1961 session, and Ravi Shankar even appears on one of the 19 previously unissued tracks. Hester had an intimate and natural empathy for sparely-arranged traditional songs, yet she doesn't sound misplaced among the folk rock material (much of it previously unissued) that closes this impressively illustrated and annotated collection. It effectively traces both a neglected artist's career and the stylistic changes in the folk movement of the Sixties. The titles blend original and non-original material, and include Once I Had A Sweetheart, Simple Gifts, East Virginia, I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound, Blues Run The Game, Reason To Believe,andOutside The Window.

Bob Dylan plays harmonica on:

Swing and Turn Jubilee

Come back, Baby

Los Biblicos

I'll fly away

Virgin Mary

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Interpret: Carolyn Hester
Album titlle: Dear Companion (2-CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode BH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127157010
weight in Kg 0.21

Hester, Carolyn - Dear Companion (2-CD) CD 1
01	Swing and Turn Jubilee	Carolyn Hester & Bob Dylan
02	Come Back, Baby	Carolyn Hester & Bob Dylan
03	I'll Fly Away	Carolyn Hester & Bob Dylan
04	Dear Companion	Carolyn Hester
05	Los Bibilicos	Carolyn Hester & Bob Dylan
06	Once I Had A Sweetheart	Carolyn Hester
07	Galway Shawl	Carolyn Hester
08	When Jesus Lived in Galilee	Carolyn Hester
09	Dink's Song	Carolyn Hester
10	Pobre De Mi	Carolyn Hester
11	Yarrow	Carolyn Hester
12	Virgin Mary	Carolyn Hester & Bob Dylan
13	My Love Is A Rider	Carolyn Hester
14	Gregorio Cortez	Carolyn Hester
15	Simple Gifts	Carolyn Hester
16	Brave Wolfe	Carolyn Hester
17	Sally Free and Easy	Carolyn Hester
18	I Loved A Lass	Carolyn Hester
19	This Life I'm Living	Carolyn Hester
20	Pera Stous	Carolyn Hester
21	Tumbando Cana	Carolyn Hester
22	Coo-Coo	Carolyn Hester
23	The Praties They Grow Small	Carolyn Hester
24	East Virginia	Carolyn Hester
25	Come, O My Love	Carolyn Hester
26	I Want Jesus	Carolyn Hester
27	That's My Song	Carolyn Hester
28	Stay Not Late	Carolyn Hester
29	Amapola	Carolyn Hester

Hester, Carolyn - Dear Companion (2-CD) CD 2
01	Ain't That Rain	Carolyn Hester
02	Momma's Tough Little Soldier	Carolyn Hester
03	Lonesome Tears	Carolyn Hester
04	Everytime	Carolyn Hester
05	Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound	Carolyn Hester
06	Ten Thousand Candles	Carolyn Hester
07	The Times I've Had	Carolyn Hester
08	Jute Mill Song	Carolyn Hester
09	The Rivers of Texas	Carolyn Hester
10	Early Morning	Carolyn Hester
11	Don't Ask Questions	Carolyn Hester
12	Reason To Believe	Carolyn Hester
13	Blues Run The Game	Carolyn Hester
14	I Love My Dog	Carolyn Hester
15	Bye Bye Brown Eyes	Carolyn Hester
16	One in a Million Sunshine Girl	Carolyn Hester
17	Majhires	Carolyn Hester
18	Outside The Window	Carolyn Hester
19	Hello You Tomorrows	Carolyn Hester
20	Penny Lane	Carolyn Hester
21	Blues Run The Game	Carolyn Hester
22	Come Back Baby	Carolyn Hester
23	Los Bibilicos	Carolyn Hester
24	I'll Fly Away	Carolyn Hester
25	Virgin Mary	Carolyn Hester
26	Lonesome Tears	Carolyn Hester
27	Summertime	Carolyn Hester
28	I Want Jesus	Carolyn Hester
29	Lonesome Tears	Carolyn Hester
30	Outside The Window	Carolyn Hester
31	Lonesome Tears	Carolyn Hester

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"Carolyn Hester"

Carolyn Hester

Carolyn Hester, with her rich, haunting, quavering soprano, was one of the true pioneers of the 1960s American folk music explosion. Inspired by the examples of folk music legends of earlier decades, like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, Hester and contemporaries like Dylan, loan Baez, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Judy Collins, and Odetta, forged a musical movement which, for a few shining years during America's most turbulent decade, took folk music to the very center of the American cultural mainstream and provided the soundtrack for a decade of dramatic social change.

Yet, Carolyn Hester insists that it was always the music, the music above all else that ultimately drew her to the center of this movement.

From the release of her 1958 debut album, a ‘pre-folk' or ‘folkabilly‘ exploration entitled Carolyn Hester: ‘Scarlet Ribbons,‘ right up until the early 1970s when she decided to take a lengthy hiatus from recording, Hester was a pivotal figure in the folk boom. During those years, she performed often at prestigious venues like the Newport Folk Festival and the Edinburgh Folk Festival. (She and first husband, singer Richard Farina, to whom she was married briefly during the early ‘60s, were especially popular performers ill England.) She also appeared on the popular ABCTV network musical show, ‘Hootenanny,' Whose success was central to the national folk boom.

Hester holds other unusual distinctions, as well. At one point early ill her career, folkie supermanager Albert Grossman (Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Maiy, etc.) seriously considered her for the trio that eventually became Peter, Paul & Mary. In the mid-1960s, when The Saturday Evening Post devoted a feature to the folk boom, it was Hester who became their cover girl. Hester also holds the distinction of being one of the few artists signed not once, but twice, to Columbia Records by legendary producer/ executive John Hammond.

Carolyn Hester At Town Hall
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