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Marianne [Box]

The Easy Riders
7 discs

0. DISC 1:
1. Whatcha Gonna Do?
2. So True Blues
3. Marianne
4. U.S.A Dam
5. Rollin' Home
6. Everybody Loves Saturday Night
7. Lonesome Rider
8. Goodbye Chiquita
9. Champagne Wine
10. South Coast
11. Hot Crawfish
12. Red Sundown
13. Yermo's Nightmare and Yermo Red
14. Sky Is High, The
15. Send For the Captain
16. Don't Hurry Worry Me
17. True Love and Tender Care
18. Tina
19. Sweet Sugar Cane, The
20. I Won't Tell
21. Strollin' Blues
22. Tina
23. South Coast
24. Fare Thee Well
25. Weary, Travelin' Blues, The
26. Blues Ain't Nothin', The
27. Times
28. Man About Town
29. Shorty Joe
0. DISC 2:
1. Strollin' Blues Weary Travelin' Blues
2. Blues Ain't Nothin', The
3. Times
4. Lonesome Rider
5. Greenfields
6. Easy Rider Blues
7. Blue Mountain
8. So True Blues
9. Fare Thee Well Oh Babe
10. Windjammer
11. Kari Waits For Me
12. Delia
13. Lonesome Whistle
14. Wanderin' Blues
15. Eddystone Light
16. Drill Ye Tarriers
17. East Virginia
18. I Ride an Old Paint
19. Sweet Sugar Cane
20. Mayfield Mountain
21. Rovin' Gambler
22. Gambler's Blues
23. Wanderin' Blues
24. John Henry
25. Lonesome Whistle
26. Six Wheel Driver
27. I'm Gonna Leave You Now
28. Sweet Sugar Cane
0. DISC 3:
1. Saturday's Child
2. Love Is a Golden Ring
3. Ride Away Vaquero
4. Take Off Your Old Coat
5. Il Fait Si Beau
6. Glory, Glory
7. My Pretty Quadroon
8. Quit Kickin' My Dog Around
9. Forever New
10. Poor Boy
11. Lights of Town, The
12. Cry of the Wilde Goose, The
13. Young in Love
14. Ballad of the Alamo
15. Green Leaves of Summer, The
16. Remember the Alamo
17. Laredo
18. Green Grow the Lilacs
19. Long Lean Delilah
20. Leina
21. Plain Old Plainsmen
22. Girl I Left Behind, The
23. Here's to the Ladies
24. Tennessee Babe
25. Mi Amor, Mi Corazon
26. Haven't We Met Before?
27. Silver and Gold
28. Go Tell Her For Me
0. DISC 4:
1. Brother Simon and Sister Mary
2. Eliza's World
3. Standing in the Garden
4. Wind Is a Lover, The
5. Point the Way to My Home
6. Sip the Morning Dew
7. How Many Yesterdays
8. Charlie's Inn
9. Coney Island
10. Brother Simon and Sister Mary
11. Ten Men From Tennessee
12. Deerfoot Dan
13. Sam Hall / Nellie
14. Maggie Gonzales
15. Along Comes Me
16. 900 Miles
17. Bachelor's Boy
18. Jeb Jones' Daughter
19. See All the People
20. Billy Goat Hill
21. Man About Town
22. Ta Pedia Tou Pirea :: Never On Sunday
23. Marianne P
24. Pajarillo Barranqueno
25. Toro
26. Greenfields
27. Wabash Cannon Ball
28. Run, Come See Jerusalem
29. Adieu Cherie
30. Dead Eye Sam
31. Devil Cat
0. DISC 5:
1. Speak a Word of Love (I Wish, I Wish)
2. Cry of the Wild Goose, The
3. Lady From Laramie
4. Little King
5. Oh Brandy Leave Me Alone
6. Boll Weevil
7. Black Eyed Susie
8. Stroy of the Creation, The
9. Cotton Eye Joe
10. Billy Boy
11. Roving Gambler
12. Jennie Jenkins
13. Black Is the Color
14. I Know Where I'm Going
15. Ev'ryone's Crazy 'Ceptin Me
16. Runnin' Away
17. Secret, The
18. Nellie Lou
19. Fast Freight
20. Solitary Singer, The
21. Mr. Buzzerd
22. Tick Tock Song, The
23. Across the Wide Missouri
24. On Top of Old Smoky
25. Girl in the Wood, The
26. Mr. Buzzard
27. Fast Freight
28. Hoofbeat Serenade
29. Stay a While
30. Rollin' Stone
31. World Belongs to Me, The
0. DISC 6:
1. Three Jolly Rogues of Lynne
2. Charmin' Bells
3. Nine Hundred Miles
4. Greensleeves
5. John Hardy
6. Green Grow the Lilacs
7. Fond Affection
8. Box of Rosewood
9. Fond Affection
10. Man You Don't Meet Ev'ryday, The
11. Lonesome Rider
12. Tom Jack
13. Wait by the Willow
14. Golden Minute
15. Mackerel Fleet
16. Sparrow Grass and Brown Bread
17. Man About Town
18. Gypsy Davey
19. Wait by the Willow
20. Tall Timber
21. Come Home Zelda
22. Ride Away Vaquero
23. Quit Kicking My Dog Around
24. Man of the Sky, The
25. Christopher Columbus
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Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 15780
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Leave it to the Bear Family label to release a six-CD set by a folk act that isn't mentioned in any reference book in the field -- and, what's more, it's all good stuff (make that great if you like the Kingston Trio). And, since there isn't a single track by the Easy Riders available anywhere apart from this box set, anyone curious about their work is going to have to buy it (or dig up the original albums and singles -- good luck). Not only is the trio's complete recorded output here, but so is all of the earlier Decca Records work of the Miller/Dehr version of the Easy Riders, and all of Gilkyson's solo stuff for Decca as well. Disc One opens with the Easy Rider trio's first sessions from May 1956, revealing the group with its sound already fully formed, moving in an alternately gentle and lively manner through folk songs and traditional-sounding numbers, including the versions of "South Coast" (two versions) and "Everybody Loves Saturday Night," as well as numerous unreleased numbers, including their original "The Sweet Sugar Cane" and a cover of the Felice and Boudleaux Bryant song "Tina." Disc Two is highlighted by various folk-blues-style numbers, as well as the trio's first approach to cowboy songs ("I Ride an Old Paint," etc.) and "I'm Gonna Leave You Now," awhich they cut with Guy Mitchell. Disc Three finishes the original trio's history and features the recordings by Gilkyson and Dehr following the split with Miller. Gilkyson's solo demos and the 12 songs cut by Frank Miller's Easy Riders, including their versions of "Marianne" and "Greenfields," anot to mention "Wabash Cannon Ball." Disc Five features all of Gilkyson's solo recordings for Decca from 1949 through 1951 (including "Cry of the Wild Goose" and an early version of "Fast Freight," awhich later entered the Kingston Trio's repertory), as well as his two collaborations with the Weavers in 1951 -- these include half a dozen songs that were unreleased until 1995, with the issue of this box. Finally, Disc Six has the complete work of the Miller/Dehr two-man Easy Riders, Dehr's solo demos, and Gilkyson's solo recordings from 1952 and 1953. The quality of the music is all very high, although Gilkyson's baritone singing has a more trained, dramatic, at times almost operatic approach than one is accustomed to in "folk" music, reminiscent more of Richard Dyer-Bennett (or even Paul Robeson) than to Woody Guthrie or Cisco Houston. The most extraordinary aspect of any of this is that the group has slipped entirely through the cracks of every music reference book in existence. ~ Bruce Eder