Various Artists - The Folk ExplosionIn the late 1950's and early 1960's, American youth discovered the joys of folk music and this renaissance continued into the 1970's when folk rock was born. This collection gathers tracks from a wide array of artists from the era including Barry McGuire, Odetta, Hoyt Axton, Barbara Dane, Roger McGuinn, Melanie, and even jazz cat Howard Roberts was bitten by the folk bug. All 17 tracks have been newly remastered for this collection.

recounting happier days in the summer of love

Andrew Brown ("Two Years")

while testing the couples marriage with diversions and temptations

while accompanying herself on piano

These deliciously harmonious a capella interpretations of traditional Scottish songs are rendered with a jazzy flaire and occasional support from harp and guitar

" as authorities forbade an English name

Includes production from George Duke

translating his characteristically variable and spatialscores into "recorded fixtures of activity using mechanic musical instrument arrays

Raquel / Private Musicke / Pitzl

bassist Michael Bates

Set in Le Havre and Tehran during the 1930s

country by Lefty Frizzell