Sunday, December 27, 2009

Dave Van Ronk: Songs for Ageing Children


I don't know why this beloved album is so hard to come by, and seems not to have been put on CD, but here it is in a renovation from a well used LP. There are moments of minor distortion that were in the grooves of the LP I had available to me, but it sounds surprisingly good, all things considered, and it will do the job until a better quality transfer from the original source becomes readily available. Posted in two parts as flac files compiled into a .rar archive and, for those who wish it, not wanting to deal with WinRAR or FLAC files, a single zipped archive of 320kbps MP3 files.

Enjoy!

Songs for Ageing Children link 1

Songs for Ageing Children link prt 2

Link to zipped MP3 files

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12 comments:

  1. IanJanuary 30, 2010 at 3:44 PM

    Many thanks for this awesome album, I've been searching for it for a long time!

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  2. Lawrence AustinJanuary 30, 2010 at 10:18 PM

    Your quite welcome, and thanks for letting me know you liked it. It seems to be the most popular download on the site. Baffling, really, why it's not available. And it really is awesome. Listening to it again and again, trying to get it to sound as good as I could, was very, very enjoyable. And it now has a permanent place on my MP3 player.

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  3. AnonymousApril 6, 2010 at 7:25 PM

    Long live Dave Van Ronk's Music!!

    Warren Floyd Brisbane Australia

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  4. Lawrence AustinApril 6, 2010 at 7:51 PM

    Long live it indeed. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for Dave, and enthusiasm I share.

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  5. mckeeApril 25, 2010 at 9:33 PM

    A million thanks for posting this gem. I have the vinyl, in bad shape, no doubt, but finding it online is almost impossible.

    Sincere thanks

    Jeff McKee

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  6. docweaselAugust 28, 2010 at 8:01 AM

    Thanks a million for posting this, I've been looking for it on torrent or rapidshare forever. I actually own it on vinyl, however, it suffers from terminal scratch disease, I only hang onto it for the cover and old time's sake, I guess.

    Do you happen to have the compilation "Van Ronk", which is a combination of "Inside Dave Van Ronk" and "Dave Van Ronk, Folksinger". I own this on vinyl as well, but scratched. Great set of folk songs, with Van Ronk's perfect accompaniment, on banjo, guitar and autoharp, unlike "SFAC" it's just Dave solo, but a really fantastic album none-the-less.

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  7. Lawrence AustinAugust 28, 2010 at 8:32 AM

    docweaseal: Thanks. I don't know if I have the compilation you mentioned, but I'll search the shelves and see.

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  8. AnonymousJune 4, 2011 at 1:28 PM

    thanks a lot really-thanks for existing--

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 7, 2012 at 5:46 PM

    One of my favorites! Thank you.

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2012 at 2:05 PM

    That listener in Lexington is ever so grateful you've done this! I've been searching—intermittently—for years, nay decades, for Van Ronk's deep, low, mournful version of Joni Mitchell's "River." Now having the entire album on my iPad has made me happier than you'll ever imagine.

    Thanks, Lawrence Austin.

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  11. ChicoryCatFebruary 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM

    Thank you so much! My cassette tape of this album wore out years ago and I have looked for a CD many times.

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  12. AnonymousMarch 15, 2013 at 2:45 PM

    great stuff...long live vinyl

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