AVID Roots continues with its Five Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2 CD release from The Kingston Trio, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details. “The Kingston Trio”; “Here We Go Again”; “String Along”; “Close Up” and “New Frontier”. Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane and (later in 1961 due to “musical and financial differences”, when Guard left the group) John Stewart, The Kingston Trio were the most popular and best selling group of the folk revival era in the US in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In fact having won a Grammy award for Best Country & Western Performance for the single “Tom Dooley” taken from their first album “The Kingston Trio” at a time when no Folk Awards even existed, they were instrumental in a Folk Award being instigated by the Academy the following year, in which they of course won! The surprisingly huge success of “Tom Dooley”, largely due to strong support on radio led to a huge spike in sales for their initially slow selling debut LP which remained on the charts for four years and subsequently the Trio went on to become one of most popular and most influential groups of the era laying the foundation for the folk movement of the 1960s from Bob Dylan to Joan Baez, The Byrds and beyond. Here’s an amazing fact, by 1961 their sales made up 15% of Capitol Records total sales having sold 8 million records and earning Capitol over $25 million. Who said Folk music would never sell? Check out:- Classic Folk (AMSC1386); Joan Baez (AMSC1213); Woody Guthrie & Jack Elliott (AMSC944): Hank Thompson (AMSC1371); Hank Williams (AMSC1267); Jimmie Rodgers (AMSC1382); Kitty Wells (AMSC1328); Patsy Cline (AMSC1313); Webb Pierce (AMSC1378); Jim Reeves (AMSC1294); Johnny Cash (AMSC1252); Marty Robbins (AMSC1281); Chet Atkins (AMSC1335).
CD1 1-12: ‘The Kingston Trio’ 1. Three Jolly Coachmen 2. Bay Of Mexico 3. Banua 4. Tom Dooley 5. Fast Freight 6. Hard, Ain’t It Hard 7. Saro Jane 8. Sloop John B a/k/a Wreck Of The John B 9. Santo Anno a/k/a Santy Anno 10. Scotch And Soda 11. Coplas 12. Little Maggie 13-24: ‘Here We Go Again’ 13. Molly Bee 14. Across The Wide Missouri 15. Haul Away 16. The Wanderer 17. ‘Round About The Mountain 18. Oleanna 19. The Unfortunate Miss Bailey 20. San Miguel 21. E Inu Tatou E 22. A Rollin’ Stone 23. Goober Peas 24. A Worried Man 25-30: ‘String Along’ 25. Bad Man’s Blunder 26. The Escape Of Old John Webb 27. When I Was Young 28. Leave My Woman Alone 29. This Mornin’, This Evenin’, So Soon 30. Everglades
CD2 1-6: ‘String Along’ 1. Buddy, Better Get On Down The Line 2. South Wind 3. Who’s Gonna Hold Her Hand 4. To Morrow 5. Along The Colorado Trail 6. The Tattooed Lady 7-18: ‘Close Up’ 7. Coming From The Mountains 8. Oh, Sail Away 9. Take Her Out Of Pity 10. Don’t You Weep, Mary 11. The Whistling Gypsy 12. O Ken Karanga 13. Jesse James 14. Glorious Kingdom 15. When My Love Was Here 16. Karu 17. Weeping Willow 18. Reuben James 19-30: ‘New Frontier’ 19. Greenback Dollar 20. Some Fool Made A Soldier Of Me 21. To Be Redeemed 22. Honey, Are You Mad At Your Man? 23. Adios Farewell 24. Poor Ellen Smith 25. My Lord What A Mornin’ 26. Long Black Veil 27. Genny Glenn 28. The First Time 29. Dogie’s Lament 30. The New Frontier
