Early Recordings Vol. II, New York, NY

Set 1
Man On The Street*
He Was A Friend Of Mine (Trad. arr.)*
Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues*
Song To Woody*
Pretty Polly (Trad.)*
Car Car (W. Guthrie)(/w Dave Van Ronk)*
Motherless Children (Trad.)@
Handsome Molly (Trad.)@
John Brown@
Ballad Of Hollis Brown@
Kindheart Woman Blues (R. Johnson)@
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Blind L. Jefferson)@
Ain't No More Cane (Leadbelly)@

Set 2
Cocaine Blues (L. Jordan arr. Rev. G. Davis)@
The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird (Trad.)@
West Texas (Trad.)@
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall#
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right#
Black Cross (J. S. Newman arr. Lord Buckley)#
No More Auction Block (Trad. arr.)#
Rocks And Gravel (Trad. arr.)#
Barbara Allen (Trad.)#
Moonshiner (Trad. arr.)#
Ramblin' Down Through The World (adpt. W. Guthrie)**
Fright Train Blues (Trad. arr.)**
Walls Of Red Wing**

Set 3


Comment
A compilation by Bob T. Guevara, also called "Put 'em On A Boat, Send 'em Up To The Gaslight Caf?"

* "The First Gaslight Tape", Sept. 06 1961, New York, NY, The Gaslight Caf?.

@ "The Second Gaslight Tape", late Oct. 1962, New York, NY, The Gaslight Caf?.

# "The Thrid Gaslight Tape", late Oct. 1962, New York, NY, The Gaslight Caf?.

** Dec. 1962 or Jan. 1963, New York, NY, unknown Folk Club.

All tracks remastered. The sound quality of the Gaslight Tapes is pretty good, especially for the second and third ones. The Unknown Folk Club Tape is a very poor, incomplete audience recording and the audience is very loud, so the quality is also, after the remastering, still pretty poor.

"The First Gaslight Tape": The first recording from the Gaslight Caf?. Not as famous as the second and third one. The sound quality isn't bad, but it is a little muffled and there was some tapehiss. I removed most of the tape hiss, but I could made the sound to crisp, because otherwise the tape hiss would have been to high.

"The Second and Third Gaslight Tape": The famous Gaslight Tapes. They are in very good quality, though the long circulated version was a bit muffled too. Even for those who have the improved Rattlesnake release, this is still a little imrovement. I made the sound again a bit more crisp and removed the last rest of tape hiss.

"The Unknown Folk Club Tape": This tape here is hardly in circulation. But it is also in poor quality and only pretty short. Although it is very interesting, because it contains one of only two recordings of "Ramblin' Down Through The World" and the only live recoding of "Fright Train Blues". There was a lot of tape hiss and the audience is very loud. I removed as much tape hiss, as possible. It's now for the hardcore fan already pretty enjoyable.

This is the second one of my remaster projects.

Bob T. Guevara

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